Data Specialist 6mth FTC
M&G
IT
Reading, UK · London, UK · stirling, uk
Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
The Role: Data Specialist - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
A key role of the Propositions team with the Individual Life & Pensions Business Unit is to maintain, extract and analyse propositional data to support the analysis of customer outcomes. Under the FCA’s Consumer Duty requirements, there is an enduring need to develop new data and metrics to better understand our customers to evidence good customer outcomes and identify areas for potential improvements.
In particular, the approach to assessing Value for Money in Workplace Pensions is expected to evolve following further regulatory guidance this year. The role holder will play a key role in translating regulatory expectations into actionable data requirements, reviewing existing reporting capabilities, and shaping the development of enhanced Value for Money metrics to support effective oversight and decision‑making.
The role holder will also be responsible for providing data to enable the Independent Governance Committee, and Pension Trustees and Managers, to provide regular oversight and reporting of customers in workplace pension schemes.
You will also be required to provide data input for regulatory reporting, such as product reviews and annual value assessments, along with any new propositional regulatory requests.
We are seeking a high performing data specialist, with experience of working with large and varied datasets, to support our conduct and oversight reporting for Propositions.
This is a great opportunity to play a key role in supporting our existing customers by providing data to evidence good outcomes and ensure that regulatory expectations are being met.
You will be part of the Conduct & Enablement Team which is responsible for ensuring that our existing Propositions are operating within M&G Prudential’s Conduct Risk appetite.
You will also support other key strategic projects.
Key Responsibilities:
To ensure Value for Money and Customer Outcome reporting is fit for purpose, well‑governed and capable of meeting evolving regulatory expectations, the role holder will be responsible for:
- Assessing existing data sources, controls and reporting capabilities to identify gaps and propose solutions required to meet future VFM reporting and disclosure requirements.
- Ensuring Value for Money data is accurate, appropriately governed and clearly presented to support regulatory scrutiny, internal challenge and audit requirements.
Providing accurate, timely and insightful reporting to support governance bodies, regulatory compliance and oversight of customer and workplace pension outcomes, including:
- Regular reporting to the Independent Governance Committee (IGC)
- Relevant regulatory requests from the FCA, DWP, HMRC etc…
- Project scoping for regulatory and strategic projects
- Regular reporting for conduct risk – e.g. Complaints MI
- Supporting internal and external benchmarking and comparator analysis, particularly for Value for Money and workplace pension assessments.
- Proposition/Product thematic reviews
- Annual Value Assessments
- Customer Outcome reporting for the Customer Committee
- Breach and Risk analysis
- Workplace Pensions BAU Reports, such as the Retention Log, Fund Benchmarking, Funds and Charges and Quarterly Complaints MI.
Ensuring appropriate data quality checks, controls and documentation are applied to reporting outputs to support regulatory assurance and governance.
Highlighting key data findings and emerging trends clearly and succinctly.
Providing clear and concise written and oral briefings to managers and other stakeholders.
Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
Essential:
- Ability to use QlikView and Excel to maintain, manipulate and engineer data to support business needs.
- Good data presentation skills with the ability to present charts and tables using Power BI, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Good planning and organisational skills to be able to handle multiple priorities.
Desirable
- Ability to interpret complex data and explain results clearly to non‑technical audiences.
- Knowledge of the life, pensions or broader asset management investment products.
- Knowledge and experience of the financial services industry, its regulators and the current
regulatory environment.
- Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
- SQL and Excel VBA.
Location: London or Kildean
Work Level: Experienced Colleague
Recruiter: Phoebe Ewers
Closing Date: 17 June 2026
What we offer:
At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:
As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.
Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.
Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.
To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.
M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions.
If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: careers@mandg.com