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Data Governance Analyst

Tesco Insurance
Edinburgh
1 day ago
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Salary and Benefits

c£54,600 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level

2

Location

Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Reigate or Southampton, Hybrid working

Office Attendance

Hybrid working; you’ll work in our offices 2 days per week.

Closing Date

Applications close 2nd December at 5pm.

Opportunity

We’re recruiting Data Governance Analysts to join Tesco Insurance and Money Services Technology Operations. Driving compliance alongside value to achieve Tesco’s Big 6 Objectives. You’ll deliver data quality assurance for our Insurance and Money Services team, operating in a highly regulated environment. It’s a key role that ensures data can be trusted when used to make decisions and deliver insights which support our customers.

The Role
  • Collect business requirements for Data Governance activities using interviews, document analysis, workshops and workflow analysis to express requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
  • Make recommendations to improve data quality through systems and platforms.
  • Contribute and support continuous improvement and refinement of the Data Governance strategy.
  • Help implement quality assurance initiatives which make data more reliable across the business.
  • Manage and develop elements such as quality rules and business glossary entries on the Data Governance tool.
  • Validate new or existing quality test methods and procedures; identify issues and recommend improvements to processes.
  • Review the backlog of work for a project and work through tasks to completion.
  • Identify data issues in existing processes, systems and procedures across the bank and use established change management programs to address them.
  • Assist with stakeholder engagement by supporting actions, meetings, events, training and supporting materials such as data quality dashboards to enable stakeholder understanding and commitment to remediation actions.
Qualifications
  • Experience of using Data Governance specific tooling.
  • Demonstrating SQL, Excel, PowerBI and insight skills.
Additional Qualifications (even better)
  • Financial Services experience.
  • Risk and Controls Experience.
  • Knowledge on current trends, UK regulations and compliance (including GDPR, ICO and FCA / PRA) and best practices in data governance.
  • Business Analyst Experience.
  • DAMA or EDM Council or similar Data Governance qualifications.
Benefits
  • Prepare for retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
  • Private Healthcare & Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
  • Performance related annual bonus.
  • Generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
  • Colleague Clubcard – a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (up to £2K). A second card is available to share.
  • Green Car Leasing Scheme.
  • Critical Illness cover.
  • Enhanced maternity leave pay, shared parental leave policy and 8-week paid paternity leave.
  • Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.
Inclusive Culture

Everyone is welcome. We want all colleagues to feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Balancing work with life’s other commitments is important. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities at every level of the organisation.

Interviews

Interviews commencing December 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our Story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!


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