Data Governance Analyst

Salary: £33,600 – £36,000 per year

Overall Job Purpose:

SCC is currently implementing a digital transformation program, where we are migrating away from legacy platforms and streamlining manual processes to optimise and automate the business.

As part of this transformation, SCC must review, define, and maintain its data and information for migration to the new systems. To help achieve this we have created a Data Governance function to work with various business stakeholders to help define Data Standards and implement Governance frameworks.

Data in a connected world is very important, it allows businesses to operate effectively and efficiently, needs to be secure, contains critical business information, and gives performance measures and metrics. Data contributes to higher information for management reporting and ensures insight into how the business is performing. Data is also growing at phenomenal rate and therefore its critical to have oversight and control.

The role of the Data Governance Administrator / Analyst is to review the agreed Data Standards and via data analysis, ensure that the Data Standards are being used correctly – the Governance. Then working with the stakeholder / owner responsible for that data, ensure irregularities are rectified and the standards are aligned.

The role will assist with enforcing the Governance standards across end to end operational workflows and processes. Working with stakeholders to ensure they understand the defined standards, naming conventions and associated industry best practices to maintain consistent and accurate information throughout its transactional lifecycle.

Main Duties of the Job:

• Build relationships with stakeholders, Data Stewards, Data owners and data Analysts across the business
• Assist in measuring data standards and adherence to data policies
• Perform analysis via reporting tools that helps identify issues with data inaccuracies / missing data / erroneous data
• Assist Data Owners establish the rules for maintaining standards across their functions
• Maintain common data standards across functions
• Maintain glossaries of standards and definitions

• Maintain Model Data, Data Mapping models and their definitions
• Oversee access rules and access to data sources
• Assist in the management of Enterprise Information Models ( EIM )
• Participate and assist with providing feedback to Data Governance Steering groups
• Provide Dashboards that detail progress on Data accuracy and improvement initiatives
• Implement periodic reviews / audits at agreed frequencies for standard compliance
• Track progress with any improvement to standards and processes.
• Assist with any external compliance audits ( ISO 20,000 etc )
• Ownership and resolution of internal and external stakeholder challenges and concerns
• To ensure that all internal procedures are kept updated and comply with the required standards.
• Utilise SCC automated systems and tools to facilitate streamlined processes.
• Preparation of standard documents and procedures
• Distribution of new procedures / processes

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• of working in an analyst / service role
• Good spoken and written communication skills Good organisational and time management skills
• Good ‘people skills’, for working with a range of colleagues and Customers.
• A professional manner
• The ability to work to targets
• Good maths skills
• Excel spreadsheet knowledge

Preferable, but additional training will be given

• knowledge of data organisation / data models
• Understanding of analysis / demonstration of interpreting data 

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