Data Governance Analyst

Tesco Insurance & Money Services
Edinburgh
3 months ago
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Tesco Insurance • Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ, United Kingdom • Permanent • Apply by 02-Dec-2025


About the role

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.


Salary - c£54,600 + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Reigate or Southampton, Hybrid working
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; you'll work in our offices 2 days per week.
Closing Date - Applications close 2nd December at 5pm.


We deal in the personal - from home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.


Opportunity

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


The Role

  • Collecting business requirements for Data Governance activities using a variety of methods such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis to express Data Governance requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
  • Making recommendations to improve data quality through systems and platforms.
  • Contributing and supporting continuous improvement and refinement of the Data Governance strategy.
  • Helping to implement quality assurance initiatives which make data more reliable across the business.
  • Managing and developing elements such as quality rules and business glossary entries on the Data Governance tool.
  • Validating new or existing quality test methods and procedures; identifying issues and recommending improvements to processes.
  • Reviewing the backlog of work for a project and working tasks through to completion.
  • Identifying data issues in existing processes, systems, and procedures across the bank and using established change management programs to address them.
  • Assisting 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.

We need you to have (min exp)

  • Experience of using Data Governance specific tooling.
  • Demonstrating SQL, Excel, PowerBI and insight skills.

And if you have any of these, 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.

We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.


What's in it for you?

  • Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
  • Private Healthcare & Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
  • Performance related annual bonus.
  • Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
  • Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.
  • Green Car Leasing Scheme.
  • Critical Illness cover.
  • Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
  • Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always 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

We also know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. 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

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 centers 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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