Data Governance Analyst

A Leading financial services organisation has an urgent 12 month Contract (Inside IR35) requirement for a Data Governance Analyst.

Key Requirements

* Working closely with the Head of Data Architecture to consistently maintain and promote the Digital & Data strategy and roadmap, ensuring that is fit for purpose and changes are clearly communicated to stakeholders.

* Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities.

* Ability to manage change initiatives and direct the work of required departmental data stewards

* Implement an enterprise wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organisation behaviour policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools and data architecture.

* Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance to ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets.

* Act as a conduit between Business and

Functional area

s and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood as part of operational planning and prioritisation.

* Develop and maintain inventory of the enterprise data flows, critical data elements, data dictionaries, owners, responsibilities including authoritative systems.

* Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data consistency standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise

Essential Experience

* Strong experience as working in Data Governance / Quality domain

* Exposure experience as working in Data Governance / Quality domain

* Experience of working in Financial Services

* Experience of developing Data Quality reporting process and supporting MI, knowledge of the key types of metrics and reporting KPI’s needed to build out measurement and reporting.

* Strong understanding of data management principles and data flow process and practices.

* Knowledge of of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection.

* Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues.

* Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design.

* Knowledge of Data Governance and Data Quality Tools and a recognised subject matter expert to influence the way things are undertaken