Risk & Finance Data Governance Analyst in London

London/Hybrid 6 months Day rate £500 via Umbrella Company

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My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services.

They are looking for a Junior Risk & Finance Data Governance Analyst to join their EMEA Data Office. The position is being offered on a 6 month contract with the possibility of extension. Based at their London office, you will be hybrid working being office based a minimum of 3 days a week. You will be working Monday to Friday, standard office hours with the occasional need for out of hours work as required.

Job Purpose

This Risk & Finance Data Governance Analyst is an important role as part of the EMEA Division's BCBS239 Programme. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of data management, BCBS239, ECB onboarding and operational risk management practices.

The role will require working with stakeholders across all functions to ensure fit-for-purpose data, as they look to leverage best practice across the industry. As the concepts of Data Governance are new to the organisation, the role also requires an ability to educate and convince stakeholders at all levels on the essential nature of this role. You must be willing to challenge the status quo in an empathic manner, while helping the wider team to have an ethos of openness and transparency that will help them nurture real business innovation.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Strong knowledge and expertise in the use of data governance, data quality, metadata, profiling, analysis, and data management tools.
• Support the implementation of the data governance strategy and policy.
• Drive the Data Governance implementation book of work and develop the pipeline.
• Drives the data definition, governance and lineage aspects 'end to end' for prioritised Use Cases.
• Work with Local Data Officers and teams across the Division on the development and implementation of data standards and adoption requirements for EMEA Data.
• Responsible for data governance implementation across the Risk and Finance domains in line with BCBS239 requirements.
• Responsible for monitoring changes to business data requirements and ensuring that change and release management activities are executed for the data domains.
• Contributes to the firm's objective of meeting industry regulatory expectations with respect to the data governance program as well as establishing processes that generate accurate, complete, timely and reliable data.
• Participates in the various data governance and program forums to advance the robustness of the Bank-wide data governance framework.
• Collaborates with business, compliance, technology, and other groups to ensure that data related business requirements are clearly defined and communicated as part of initiative prioritisation and planning.
• Support the investigation of Data Quality Issues, development of remediation plans and recommendations to fix at source.
• Ability to establish consistent contact with all teams to provide updates, stay on track and report risks and issues timely with proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and expertise in data governance, data quality, profiling and analysis.
• Has a working knowledge of BCBS239 in a Tier 1 / Tier 2 bank.
• Ability to see challenges through to resolution.
• Understands complicated data structures and calculations required for Risk and Finance.
• Understanding of the Risk and Finance Data Domain as well as knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise data and data related regulatory requirements.
• Analytically minded with experience in problem solving and being able to implement and deliver solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills to communicate and achieve buy-in from stakeholders across EMEA.
• Partner with business stakeholders to manage timely execution of resolutions, escalate delays and obstacles/roadblocks to business control forums.
• An understanding of Physical, Logical, and Business data Models.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint supporting Business Process Modelling.
• Proven ability to be a team player, while retaining the ability to work independently where necessary.
• Confident manner and strong presentation skills.
• Educated to degree level in any subject or relevant industry experience, preferably in a quantitative discipline.
• Exposure to Collibra and other data governance tools.

Candidates must show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you.