Data Steward

Data Steward Location: Cape Town. Employment type: Full Time. Posted today. Application deadline: November 5. Responsibilities To implement the tactical plans and business processes required to create, maintain, and enhance data, be responsible for the daily management of a critical data asset within area of responsibility and provide guidance to an allocated data set and actively manage data in order to meet compliance requirements, align data to business priorities, continuously improve data quality, reduce cost of data management, and to increase confidence in data and information integrity. Provide input into the definition of data processes and standards. Comply with data policies, standards, tools and best practices within the data domain of responsibility. Apply domain-level data architecture and data management best practices to area of responsibility. Evaluate existing information management landscape and produce report for areas of improvement under supervision and guidance. Attend relevant information management working groups and implement requirements accordingly. Assist with compliance with internal policy, regulatory requirements and data practice standards. Interacts and builds relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with statutory requirements. Document business term definitions. Create and maintain reference data and master data definitions. Ensure reference and master data management processes address uniformity, accuracy, accountability across entities. Maintain metadata, data quality rules, Enterprise Data Model (EDM), reference data, records register, where applicable. Publish relevant meta data to appropriate users in an organization, and monitor the published data sources for usage, relevance and quality feedback. Create and manage business metadata for published data sources to ensure that it is easily discoverable, and meaningful to information workers. Respond to data queries e.g. data quality issues as defined by the data quality issue resolution process. Co‑coordinate data quality issue resolution. Perform root cause analysis to resolve data quality issues and implement solutions accordingly. Assess the access request and action according to access standards and information owner approvals. Monitor user access and usage of the data sets owned or accountable for. Define and obtain sign off on measurement for information management disciplines for area of responsibility. Provide input into information management metrics. Provide input into accurate and reliable reporting together with analyzing trends and data used to improve business decisions. Provide input into accurate and reliable reporting in line with business, compliance and governance requirements. Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities. Define information management requirements (e.g. data cleansing and data quality, etc.) and drive the implementation of the requirements within area of responsibility). Participate in data related projects and provide required domain level expertise. Align data activities to targeted projects for remediation and drive activities accordingly. Participate in activities of the Segment implementation roadmap for the information management function. Participate in the maturity roadmap for relevant Business Unit aligned to implementation roadmap and provide inputs for roadmap assessment. Deliver initiatives that improve the level of information management maturity. Apply understanding of data management and business processes and coordinate with relevant stakeholders to solve business problems. Serve as a change agent for information management. Present information management trends to management and relevant committees for area of responsibility, using internal and external research, including best practice and industry standards. Consult in matters of data workflows, master data security, and access rights for area of responsibility. Promote best practices and make recommendations to business users that will create efficiencies and ensure data integrity for area of responsibility. Provide training or awareness to the business and data community on data management disciplines for area of responsibility. Identify possible solutions to support business requirements and partners with stakeholders to develop an optimum solution. Qualifications A relevant BCom or BSc qualification. 3-4 years in a similar role. Knowledge working with SQL, PowerBI , SAS, SharePoint. Job Details Job requisition id: R. Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below. 05 / 11 / 25 All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. EEO Statement The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties. #J-18808-Ljbffr