Data Governance Analyst – Financial Services
Contract Length: 3 months initially, with potential extension for the remainder of the year
We are supporting a leading financial services organisation with an urgent requirement for multiple Data Governance Analysts to support a range of high-priority business and technology change programmes.
This is a business-facing Data Governance role where you will work closely with data owners, data stewards, project teams, data product teams and senior stakeholders to help embed effective Data Governance across key business areas. The role will focus on supporting the implementation of a Data Governance framework, establishing clear data ownership, improving metadata management, supporting data quality activity and helping the business build greater trust in its data.
The initial work will support a range of business-critical projects across regulatory reporting, finance systems transformation, HR data migration, contract management, customer data and performance reporting.
Key Skills Required
- Strong experience in Data Governance, Data Management or Data Quality
- Experience supporting the implementation of Data Governance frameworks
- Good understanding of metadata management and data catalogue tooling
- Experience working with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians and project teams
- Strong stakeholder engagement and business partnering skills
- Ability to define business terms, critical data elements and reporting requirements
- Experience supporting data quality monitoring, rules, thresholds and reporting
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Financial Services, banking, lending or regulated industry experience
- Collibra experience would be highly beneficial
- Informatica Data Quality / IDMC experience would be useful
- Experience working in Agile environments
- Regulatory reporting, finance, risk, HR migration, SAP or MI reporting project experience
- Understanding of FCA, PRA, GDPR, DPA, ECB, EBA or wider financial services regulatory requirements
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be a strong communicator who can operate as a bridge between business and data teams. You will be comfortable working with senior stakeholders, influencing adoption of Data Governance practices and helping teams take ownership of their data.
This would suit someone who has worked as a Data Governance Analyst, Data Quality Analyst, Data Management Analyst, Metadata Analyst, Business Data Analyst or Data Governance Consultant within financial services or another regulated environment.
Contact Details:
TechNET IT Recruitment Ltd Recruitment Team
