Finance Data Governance Specialist VP

Job title: Finance Data Governance Specialist VP

Location: London/Hybrid

Duration: until 31/03/2026 initially

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The role:

This role is required to support the Finance function deliver objectives related to the Bank wide BCBS239 project. The role will require working with stakeholders within Finance to ensure fit-for-purpose data and controls, as we look to leverage best practice across the industry.

Responsibilities:

Solid knowledge and expertise in the use of data governance, data quality, metadata, profiling, analysis, and data management tools.
Responsible for data governance implementation across the Finance domain in line with BCBS239 requirements.
Responsible for the data definition, lineage and governance aspects 'end to end' for prioritised Use Cases
Responsible for monitoring changes to business data requirements and ensuring that change and release management activities are executed for the data domains
Contributes to the firm's objective of meeting industry regulatory expectations with respect to the data governance program as well as establishing processes that generate accurate, complete, timely and reliable data
Work with stakeholders across the Division on the development and implementation of data standards and adoption requirements for EMEA Data
Participates in the various data governance and program forums to advance the robustness of the Bank-wide data governance framework
Collaborates with business, compliance, technology, and other groups to ensure that data related business requirements are clearly defined and communicated as part of initiative prioritisation and planning
Support the investigation of Data Quality Issues, development of remediation plans and recommendations to fix at source
Assist in delivering robust controls and monitoring processes for those controls and providing controls MI to senior management
Ability to establish consistent contact with all teams to provide updates, stay on track and report risks and issues timely with proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders

Requirements:

Solid knowledge and expertise in data governance, data quality, profiling and analysis
Has a detailed working knowledge of BCBS239 in a Tier 1 / Tier 2 bank
Has experience communicating with senior managers
Understands complicated data structures and calculations required for Finance
Understanding of the Finance Data Domain as well as knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise data and data related regulatory requirements
Ability to think in an enterprise-wide manner, rather than a siloed or business unit focused fashion
Analytically minded with experience in problem solving and being able to implement and deliver solutions
Strong stakeholder engagement skills to communicate and achieve buy-in from stakeholders across EMEA

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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