Data Manager

We’re looking for a highly organised, energising and outcomes driven leader to take ownership of our Regulatory Reporting team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on structure, cares deeply about accuracy, and can confidently work with senior stakeholders, while building a supportive, high performing team culture.

If you enjoy motivating people, delivering to immovable deadlines, and keeping complex data environments running smoothly, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing

• Own non financial regulatory reporting end to end, ensuring outputs are timely, accurate, complete and audit ready.
• Lead, support and develop a team of Data Analysts, creating clarity, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Design and maintain robust controls to ensure reporting remains compliant, resilient and well governed.
• Manage complex senior stakeholder expectations across local data teams, Risk, Operations, Regulatory Advice, Line 2 and SMF stakeholders.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with data teams across the business and our enablement partners.
• Prepare and present clear papers and insights to working groups and committees.
• Coordinate internal and external audits, addressing findings and embedding improvements.
• Identify reporting risks early and put effective mitigations in place.
• Drive automation and process efficiency to simplify ways of working and enhance reporting quality.
• Work closely with the Head of Reporting & Governance to anticipate regulatory change and prepare the team to respond.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in regulatory reporting wih strict deadlines.
• Proven experience leading, motivating and developing teams.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple submissions, controls, stakeholders and dependencies without losing attention to detail.
• A strong culture builder who values psychological safety, learning and accountability.
• Confident influencing senior stakeholders and managing expectations with clarity and credibility.
• A strong track record of delivering high quality outputs to non negotiable deadlines.
• Comfortable owning complex processes end to end, with accuracy and consistency.
• Strong analytical capability and the ability to interpret and apply regulatory requirements.
• Experience working with data controls, audit readiness and governance frameworks.
• Ability to build trusted partnerships across data, technology and operational teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail, paired with a practical continuous improvement mindset.

Why this role matters

Regulatory reporting is one of the most critical data functions at Admiral. In this role, you’ll shape how we deliver trusted, compliant and efficient reporting, and play a key leadership role in strengthening our regulatory reporting capability for the future.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us or contact us on 07796212438. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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