Data Governance

**Job no**: 520039

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Canberra

**Division**: Management Consulting

**KPMG Australia** is part of a global network providing extensive services across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our people collaborate, share their expertise and create innovation as we partner with clients to solve complex challenges, empower change, drive disruption and growth. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference for our clients, our firm and our communities.

**KPMG Data & Cloud** is a team with a passion for helping our clients solve their business challenges. We achieve this through technology-based solutions that unlock insights and value from data and leverage innovative cloud-based solutions. Leveraging the “One KPMG” approach, our team works collaboratively with the wider KPMG service lines to provide our clients with industry-specific, tailored proposals that result in highly differentiated business transformation outcomes.

We re-imagine and re-invent organizations to become world class enterprises using advanced technologies, data and human insights. We help organizations to embrace Data Strategy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Cognitive, the Internet of Things (IoT), Data, Analytics & Modelling and more.

**Responsibilities**:
The main purpose of this position is to assist the information/data governance team in the formation and execution of data governance framework, policy, standards. This position assists in specialist advise for implementations of data governance programs. In this role, you will:

- Develop control structures within a simple environment to ensure the accuracy and quality of data through all upstream and downstream data channels.
- Provide thought leadership and participate with projects that involve any of the upstream or downstream data flows and processes.
- Coordinate the resolution of data integrity gaps by working with the business owners and IT.
- Work with business partners to gather and understand functional requirements, develop complex queries and provide reports.

***Essential Skills/Experience**
- Strong understanding of databases and data structures.
- Strong analytical and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Intermediate facilitation skills with the ability to drive issues to closure.
- Self-motivated and able to handle tasks with mínimal supervision or questions.
- Ability to deliver a high level of customer service.
- Ability to compare technologies and make recommendations to senior members of the team.
- Understanding of applicable privacy regulations and the Data And Transparency ACT (DATA).
- Technical competency with database technology.
- Technical competency with programming language/s.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook.
- 3-5 years experience in data management, data governance, data strategy, data quality or data assurance role.
- Knowledge, understanding and/or experience in data migration and source-target data mapping execution.
- Synthetic data generation and/or data obfuscation techniques.
- Knowledge and/or experience in data strategy design and development.

**Desirable**:
***What can we offer you?**
- A culture focused on harmony, trust and collaboration
- Opportunities to work on larger, diverse and more complex projects. Putting your skills and experience to the test
- Encouragement and support of ongoing learning and career development across the business. Because how you grow matters
- Opportunities to collaborate and link across borders and globally with sector and technical experts in all parts of our business
- Be involved in KPMG's support of numerous organisations in the areas of education, social inclusion and health including our Reconciliation Action Plan and Global Green Initiative.
- Participation in the performance-based variable pay (bonus) scheme.
- Enjoy employee benefits including salary packaging options, employee discounts, reward schemes, and more

**The KPMG Difference**

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

KPMG has a decade-long, proud commitment to Indigenous Australia, as demonstrated by the achievement of an Elevate level Reconciliation Action Plan. KPMG is a foundation member and Principal Partner of Pride in Diversity started in Australia by ACON and the Diversity Council of Australia, and is recognised in the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) which evaluates LGBTIQ+ inclusiveness in the workplace. KPMG Australia has been consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice in the Australian Government’s Workplace Gender Equality Agency(WGEA) annual index.

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**Advertised**: 24 Aug 202