Data Governance Analyst

The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.

We thrive on progress - for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 550+ team currently across 11 locations and 9 time zones.

**The Role**

Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We're invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone it's because they bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for....so we let you do what you're best at Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless.

The Data Governance Analyst’s purpose is to play a crucial role in helping to shape and implement our organisation’s data governance framework and practices. This role will help establish and maintain robust data governance practices across all business units and jurisdictions. The role’s analytical skills and attention to detail will be instrumental in developing policies, standards that ensure data is fit-for-purpose, compliance and effective stewardship throughout the organisation.

The Value Proposition of the Data Governance Analyst contributes to uplifting data maturity level and fostering a culture of data collaboration across the board. Stakeholder’s trust in data helps keep our organisation agile as we support data-driven decision making.

As our **Data Governance Analyst**your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

- Contribute to operationalising the Data Governance Framework via strong and actionable policies, processes, procedures and standards through the relevant jurisdictions.
- Evaluate opportunities and make recommendations for embedding Data Governance practices within IT teams and across the organisation.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration among Data Stewards and other teams while supporting adoption of data practices and tools including Data Catalogue, Enterprise Business Glossary along with associated processes and artefacts.
- Assist the Enterprise Data team implementing and maintaining the tools and processes to ensure compliance with data obligations across jurisdictions.
- Contribute to internal and external audits as necessary.
- Work closely with the business to streamline processes, increase compliance, reduce effort, raise data maturity and deliver tangible business value.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather and analyse data requirements, ensuring the solutions align with business and data governance objectives
- Develop and maintain comprehensive, consistent documentation for data models, data flows, data dictionaries, enterprise business glossary and other data artifacts. Ensure they are consistent with industry standards and scalable to business needs.
- Present data artefacts and insights to stakeholders, explaining complex technical concepts in a clear and concise manner.
- Perform other responsibilities and duties periodically assigned by manager to meet reasonable operational and/or other requirements.

**About You**
- 6+ years’ experience in data management roles preferably in Financial Services or FinTech.
- 2+ years' experience in a specialist Data Governance role
- Solid understanding of DAMA DMBoK principles or any other relevant data frameworks (i.e. DCAM), and industry best practices.
- Experience in at least two Data Management Areas (e.g. Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modelling, Data Security, Data Integration, Data Risk, Reporting).
- Good experience in developing robust data policies, standards, processes and procedures.
- Ability to translate complex regulatory, compliance and business requirements into clear, actionable data policies.
- Familiarity with data governance, data retention, data quality, data privacy and data classification implementations.
- Knowledge of global regulatory and compliance frameworks commonly used the in financial services sector (i.e. GDPR, NIST, Australian Privacy Act).
- Hands-on experience in creating and/or maintaining an Enterprise Business Glossary.
- Experience of contemporary cloud data-management technology (preferably AWS).
- Proficiency in SQ