Senior Analyst, Financial Data Governance

SoFi

2mo ago

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Job
Full-time
Mid & Senior Level
Data
Banking & Finance
$99.2K - $186K
Jacksonville, +3
Remote

Requirements

What you’ll need:
Education: Bachelor's Degree.
Experience: 4-5 years of relevant work experience.
Previous experience in building a similar function within Accounting and Finance. Relevant experience in the financial services industry.
Experience working with data owners, data stewards, and business leaders to ensure data is connected, clean, and sufficiently complete to enable business decisions, drive business growth, optimize costs, and reduce risk exposure.
Requires business acumen, strategic thinking, financial analytical skills and decision-making skills.
Experience working in an Enterprise Data Governance Program is strongly preferred, as well as a sound understanding of data governance practices, metadata management, data quality concepts and familiarity with regulatory requirements in the financial services industry.
Knowledge of CDE identification, data attributes and lineage documentation.
Experience with architecture design, relational databases and process design is a plus.
Knowledge of data governance, data quality practices and relevant tools such as tools such as Alation, Collibra, JIRA, Monte Carlo, Great expectations or similar tools.
Strategic and independent thinker with Hands-on approach to achieving data governance goals and a collaborative working style with the ability to work with line of business partners to build consensus.
Effective communicator with ability to build alliances with stakeholders across the Company
Strong communication skills both verbal and writing, with attention to detail.
Ability to multi-task and a fast learner.
Must be versatile, able to work effectively independently or as part of a team on multiple projects simultaneously.
Nice to have:
Big 4 experience is preferred
Prefer FinTech, banking and/or financial services experience

Responsibilities

Data Governance:
Ensure compliance with Enterprise Data Governance Policies and Standards as it relates to data production, aggregation and consumption of data.
Assist with operationalization of data governance processes in partnership with data owners
Contribute effectively to the execution of the Enterprise Data Strategy, Critical Data Element (CDE) management and related efforts.
Partner with data producers and IT Group to implement data standards, business rules and Data Quality (“DQ”) issues and escalation procedures.
Facilitate and support education and ongoing training in Enterprise data governance policies and procedures.
Metadata Management:
Work with functional units to identify CDE, business terms, lineage mapping and socialize progress among stakeholders.
Work with Business Process Owners and the Data Governance User Group(s) to identify, classify and define each assigned CDE and ensure that each element has a clear and unambiguous definition.
Document and maintain CDE business descriptions, data lineage, data sources, transformation logic in a centralized data governance repository
Data Quality Management:
Facilitate and support data quality improvement initiatives across DQ dimensions
Collaborate with Data Owners, Business Process owners and IT data to ensure data used for risk, financial, regulatory, operational and management reporting is fit for purpose.
Based on changes in the business work environment, job responsibilities can change, and additional functions and tasks may be added or removed accordingly.
Additionally, this position will perform other duties as required, and participate in special projects as deemed necessary and appropriate by Management.

FAQs

What is the primary focus of the Senior Analyst, Financial Data Governance role?

The primary focus of this role is to partner with data producers, owners, and consumers to deliver new insights and data-driven solutions to accelerate business outcomes within the Accounting and Controllership function.

Who does the Senior Analyst, Financial Data Governance role report to?

This role reports to the Lead, Financial Data Governance.

What are some of the responsibilities of the Senior Analyst, Financial Data Governance?

Responsibilities include analyzing Finance & Accounting data assets, ensuring data quality and integrity, creating data flows and lineage, and adhering to data governance policies.

SoFi

SoFi helps you save, spend, earn, borrow, invest, and protect your money–all in one app. NMLS 1121636

Finance

Industry

1001-5000

Employees

2011

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

SoFi is a values-driven company on a mission to help our members get their money right. We create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better, so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions—from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more.