Director, Research, Operations & Reporting - Market Data Services

Director, Research, Operations & Reporting - Market Data Services

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• Support the development of third‑party data strategies to align with enterprise objectives, ensuring scalability, compliance, and value realization across business units
• Identify emerging trends and innovation opportunities in third‑party data sourcing and utilization, incorporating best practices into strategic planning and execution; create and maintain third‑party data research strategy, including standards, processes, evaluation models, and methods for research acceleration and enablement
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Market Data Services (MDS) Leader, Sourcing, Strategy and Procurement, and related subject matter experts to execute third‑party data asset research, evaluation, trialing, and determination, including business approvals and process facilitation to enable downstream acquisition activities
• Drive operational advancement and improvement of data research function, including process improvement, operational metrics and reporting, and financial due diligence
• Oversee MDS service delivery model operations, including end‑to‑end workflow, agile resource planning, application of standards, guidelines, tools/templates, and more to support engagement with partnered functions; drive integration between category sourcing/acquisition and core MDS management and portfolio capabilities, including governance, tagging and profiling, ingestion, and catalog onboarding planning
• Monitor and report on operational effectiveness and portfolio management performance measures and metrics for the MDS, including end‑to‑end workflow, portfolio activation, renewals, usage/ROI, data management, compliance, and upstream/downstream integration with stakeholders and authoritative catalogs
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

• Minimum eight years of recent experience within management, in data analytics and/or business research role where duties included sourcing, evaluating, acquiring, and using third‑party data to derive business insights, demonstrating success in positions of increasing complexity; minimum ten years of recent experience in professional services
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business administration, economics, finance, or a similar field required
• Deep knowledge of traditional and alternative third‑party data and research providers, their products and commercial models, such as Bloomberg, Factset, Standard & Poor's, and more, as well as their applicability to cross‑functional professional services use cases
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative and influencing skills to effectively navigate a complex management and organizational structure with a high degree of ambiguity
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial, analytical, financial, problem‑solving, organizational, and project management skills
• Experience with agile workflow tools (JIRA, Dev Ops, and more) and data analysis/reporting technologies (Power
  
  BI, Tableau, and more) is required
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment‑based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for any employment‑based visa)

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