Data Governance Analyst

Job Title: Data Governance Analyst

Type: Hybrid (office days in Johannesburg or Cape Town)

Company: IQbusiness to be based at a client in banking industry

**Role overview**

The Data Governance Analyst will monitor and enhance enterprise data governance activities including monitoring the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets. The position will focus on ensuring adherence to the data policies, standards and processes, by all squads in the bank, to achieve the required level of consistency, quality and protection to meet overall business needs. The Data Governance Analyst will work closely with Business squad leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory protection requirements as well as support the strategic requirements of the squads. The analyst will also establish and enhance Data Policies, Standards and Processes and assist the Squads in adhering to the established standards and process. These standards will ensure the democratisation of all data assets in the bank and provide a well-documented, discoverable register of all data and related business meaning. This will also enable the meeting of regulatory requirements by ensuring all data in the bank is owned, managed, curated and documented. Driving Data Quality improvements and further ensuring trust is built in all data assets in the bank.

**Responsibilities and KRA’s**

**Operational Delivery**
- Execute data governance strategy and overall objectives set by the relevant data governance forums
- Align data governance with the business goals and priorities
- Provide performance related reports and build consensus for the data governance strategy across the bank
- Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities in line with the bank’s information management strategy and principles
- Roll out an enterprise wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behaviour policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools and data architecture
- Eliminates redundancy and streamlines the external data sources.
- Identify the new business opportunities with the use of data assets to achieve efficiency and represent the data as the business asset.
- Coordinate regarding the implementation of Data Governance Strategy across operational units
- Collaborate with leadership across the organisation to identify business needs and implement data governance processes
- Responsible for development and maintenance of standard data operating procedures
- Ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework for data practices, policies, and standards both at a technical and functional level.
- Focus on minimizing the risk of regulatory fines.
- Defines the roles and responsibilities related to Data Governance and ensures accountability for the stewardship and master data assets of the enterprise.
- Should serve as a liaison between business and its functional as well as technical areas of the technology and protect the sensitive and confidential data.
- Eliminates redundancy and streamlines the external data sources.
- Identify the new business opportunities with the use of data assets to achieve efficiency and represent the data as the business asset.
- Coordinate regarding the implementation of Data Governance Strategy across operational units

**Compliance**
- Ensure effective internal controls by monitoring metrics and driving performance through improvement initiatives
- Champion enterprise data governance and data initiatives
- Ensure appropriate representation and participation in data governance forums across the business
- Lead and guide the data governance organisation to achieve desired

business results
- Deliver on data governance strategy and overall objectives
- Ensure data governance initiatives result in enterprise and functional benefits
- Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning
- Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise information maps, including authoritative systems, owners
- Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements
- Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
- Provide progress reports on data governance issues and oversee periodic updates to Data Governance Roadmap

**Delivery Management**
- Ensures the Data is manageable and provides more support to accelerate data-driven digital t