Senior Business Initiatives Lead

Overview

The Business Initiatives Lead – Investment Data Governance & Operations is a high-impact role at the center of Allspring’s investment data ecosystem. This role helps shape how investment data is sourced, governed, cleansed, validated, and delivered across the organization, enabling confident decision-making for investment, operations, risk, compliance, and client-facing teams. 

 

We currently operate in a hybrid working model, whereby you will be required to work in-office 4 days per week.  

 

Location(s): Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Investment Data Council, including agenda development, decision framing, stakeholder alignment, follow-up discipline, and clear documentation of outcomes. 

• Partner with business, investment, operations, technology, risk, compliance, and data governance stakeholders to prioritize enterprise data issues and drive timely resolution. 

• Oversee governance practices for critical investment data domains, including securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing, valuation, reference data, and related investment attributes. 

• Define and strengthen data quality standards, validation rules, controls, exception management practices, escalation pathways, and governance procedures. 

• Provide strategic oversight of data sourcing, validation, processing, and distribution across internal platforms, external vendors, and downstream consumers. 

• Identify, evaluate, and support onboarding of new pricing, valuation, reference, and benchmark data sources in partnership with market data, vendor management, technology, and business users. 

• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, reduce cost, and strengthen data operations processes using tools such as SQL, Python, PowerApps, Excel, and workflow solutions. 

• Translate complex investment data topics into clear business cases, roadmaps, actionable recommendations, and measurable outcomes for executive and cross-functional audiences. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field. 

• 7+ years of relevant experience in investment data, investment operations, portfolio operations, data governance, reference data, market data, valuation, or a related investment services function. 

• In-depth understanding of investment data concepts, including securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing, valuation, reference data, and/or investment product data. 

• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional governance forums, working groups, councils, or senior stakeholder routines. 

• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly, facilitate decisions, and influence across business, investment, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams. 

• Experience with data quality management, data cleansing, issue resolution, controls, documentation, and governance practices. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills with the ability to diagnose root causes and drive sustainable solutions. 

• Proficiency with data management tools and software, such as Bloomberg, Excel, SQL, VBA, Python, PowerApps, or similar technologies. 

• Remain in stationary position for prolonged periods of time 

• Operate computer programs and software 

• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats 

• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or public) 

• Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with accounting, trading, or investment data platforms such as APX, CRD, Bloomberg, or related enterprise data platforms. 

• Familiarity with accounting and valuation considerations across multiple asset classes, including structured products and derivatives. 

• Experience building data quality dashboards, metrics, scorecards, or executive reporting for data governance initiatives. 

• Ability to translate technical data topics into compelling business narratives, decisions, and action plans. 

Please note: This position does not offer sponsorship for employment visas. Applicants must be legally authorized to