Data Fund Accounting/Investment Test Manager & Data mapping analyst

Contract Role – Data Fund Accounting/Investment Test Manager & Data mapping analyst – Manchester/Hybrid – 12 months

Role Overview:

• Job Title: Data Fund Accounting/Investment Test Manager & Data mapping analyst
• Location: Manchester/Hybrid (4 days onsite per week)
• Contract Type: Contract
• Duration: 12 months
• Sector: Investment Banking

Data Fund Accounting/Investment Test Manager x1

• Fund accounting or/and transfer agency
• Investments/ Investment, Financial services industry
• End to end data testing leadership, owning Data test strategy, approach, and execution across system, integration, and reconciliation testing.
• Strong understanding of data flows and dependencies, ensuring test coverage across upstream sources, transformations, and downstream consumers.
• Test planning & governance expertise, including test scope, entry/exit criteria, defect triage, and reporting to programme leadership.
• Hands on data validation capability, ability to use SQL and Excel to validate completeness, accuracy, reconciliations, and controls.
• Cross team coordination skills, working closely with data delivery, engineering, business SMEs, and vendors to resolve issues.
• Delivery focused mindset, balancing rigor with pragmatism to support parallel runs, cutover readiness, and go live confidence.

Data Fund Accounting/Investment Data Mapping Analyst x2

• Fund accounting or/and transfer agency
• Investments/ Investment, Financial services industry
• Source to target data mapping expertise across complex datasets, including transformation rules, dependencies, and timing.
• Strong data analysis skills to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and data quality issues and propose pragmatic resolutions.
• Clear documentation discipline, producing audit ready mapping specs, data dictionaries, and assumptions.
• Hands on data interrogation capability using SQL and advanced Excel; comfortable with file based and warehouse data.
• Effective stakeholder engagement, bridging business SMEs, data architects, and technology teams to clarify requirements.
• High attention to detail with delivery focus, understanding downstream impacts on reporting, SLAs, and operations.

Please also note: Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.