Data Governance Analyst

Company Description

• Data Governance Analyst positions - growing team, new tech being launched - exciting time to join
• £35,000 - £45,000 + (up to) 20% annual bonus
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts
• This role is based 5 days at our Cheadle office in South Manchester

We're Together. For over 50 years, we've helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can't or won't. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.9 billion loan book.

Job Description
As a business, we strive to ensure the consistent quality, integrity and usability of our data. As such we have a highly skilled data team, which continues to grow and develop as we implement our business wide Tech Transformation and introduce multiple new data related technologies and systems. this is an exciting time of growth for us and as such, we have two new Data Governance Analyst positions available to support a wide variety of work.

As a core member of Data & BI function, you will be supporting all initiatives in delivering Together's Data Strategy - specifically activities related to Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Profiling, Change Delivery with elements of Data Architecture and/ or Business Intelligence.

In these roles you will be building relationships and working closely with stakeholders across the business and the wider Data Teams to provide support/ analysis, reporting, data modelling etc etc when data quality issues occur. What will set you apart in this role is your keen eye for detail, an enthusiasm for governing and managing data and a determination and resilience to drive improvements.

Typical Duties Include

• Working within the Data Governance Framework to evolve the maturity of data management practices within all business functions using the Data Ownership and Stewardship model.
• Implement and maintain data policies and processes; and provide ongoing monitoring and reporting on those processes.
• Investigative analysis of data quality issues and working with all required parties to facilitate their resolution.
• Identify business opportunities to improve data. Assist the process of bringing common data together to perform standardisation.
• Collaborate and support change delivery initiatives to ensure business data management requirements are met and downstream impacts on data are understood.
• Support the documentation of data definitions using data modelling and data dictionaries/ data catalogues.
• Support with data analysis and reporting services to our business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Risk and Control owners to understand business risks caused by limitations in data and formulate implementation of preventative controls and solutions to mitigate risks.
• Support in activities to deliver Together's Data Strategy.

Qualifications
We don't expect you to have all of the following skills, but if you have a fair blend, then we're keen to chat

• Previous experience in a similar Data Governance, MI or analytical role would be preferred but we are equally happy to speak to you if you have experience in either; data management role such as Data Governance/ Data Quality/ Business Intelligence/ Data Engineering or Data Science.
• Strong analytical and report building skills
• Experience of using Power BI to build dashboards for analysis and data visualisation.
• Highly proficient in the full Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Highly organised, with a flexible approach to work, and the ability to multi-task effectively as part of a team
• Excellent attention to detail
• Advanced Excel and SQL skills are highly beneficial. It is important that you can evidence that you have learnt coding in any of the major programming languages.
• Experience of /has the mindset of working within a change delivery framework (Agile/ Waterfall).
• Use of data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Data modelling experience
• Data governance or quality tooling experience

Additional Information
If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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Recruitment Process
Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.