Data Governance Analyst

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

This is a full-time position for a Data Governance Analyst with coverage across various data governance programs. The successful candidate’s main responsibilities will include supporting and maintaining governance risk programs while providing support to management in oversight of programs.

Key working relationships

The candidate will need to build and maintain effective relationships throughout the Bank and its parent Group, including business line leadership, the broader set of stakeholders across corporate function staff, as well as key risk personnel with exposure to a variety of different risk programs and activities.

Principal responsibilities of Position

The role holder will be part of a high performing and experienced team with multi-disciplinary responsibility. The role holder will be responsible for the following:

• Execution and coordination of key Data Governance activities:

  • Day-to-day analyst activities for Data Governance Program and related risk management programs including the maintenance and development of Key Report Data Flow Documentation, maintenance of both the banks Authorised Data Source and Key Report Inventory, and related risk assessments.

  • Build and maintain familiarity with a variety of systems and applications to support competence in executing analyst activities such as reviewing risk and control records, extracting required data, and attesting on assigned activities.

  • Support management in design and delivery of innovative solutions to simplify, automate or optimise processes required for regulatory compliance and risk mitigation or oversight.

  • Maintain procedure documentation annually.

  • Supporting data quality activities including identification and validation of Critical Data Elements in collaboration with the broader Data Governance team and stakeholders.

• Reporting to different risk and governance forums, including reporting to Group, on outputs from Data Governance activities.

• Development of procedures and controls to ensure comprehensive implementation of the Bank’s Data Governance Policies and Programs.

• Facilitate regulatory or internal audit driven reviews, as necessary.

Skills and competencies:

Skills and competencies required include:

• Ability to operate in a matrix organisation and build relationships at all management levels.

• Ability to engage and manage stakeholder relationships and expectations.

• Ability to demonstrate sound communication, negotiating and influencing skills.

• Ability to consume a mix of complex manual and automated (technical) procedures, understand processes and related documentation and produce useful visual flows and insights.

• Competent in working with data and information from multiple distinct sources leveraging and building experience with various toolkits to generate effective management information and drive action.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including production of presentation materials for management and committee consumption.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent academic qualifications or work experience in risk management, information management or related disciplines.

Experience

Preferred experience includes:

• Minimum 2 or more years of related experience in Operational Risk, Data Governance, or a suitable related discipline.

• Familiarity with risk management and applicable laws, regulations in financial services and regulatory trends, particularly in the areas of Data Governance and Risk Management.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.