Data Governance Analyst

Monthly Gross Salary from €3,300

Role summary/purpose of job

The Data Governance Analyst is experienced in managing data assets and is responsible for managing and maintaining the organisation’s Global Data Catalogue, ensuring adherence to data governance policies and standards. This role supports the Data Operations Manager in enhancing data quality, privacy, and compliance, and streamlining data management processes using the Collibra tool. A key purpose of this role is to promote effective data stewardship, introduce best practice recommendations, and drive the organisation’s data governance strategy.

Function Overview

A Data Governance Analyst ensures that an organisation’s data is accurately catalogued, secure, and compliant with regulatory standards. This role involves managing data governance policies, enhancing data quality, and supporting data privacy initiatives, often using Collibra to maintain a Global Data Catalogue (GDC) and streamline data management processes.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Support the Data Operations Manager with managing the Global Data Catalogue

• Define and manage data asset security classifications, ensuring consistent categorisation and protection measures, based on the classification of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Special Category PII, and Commercially Sensitive data in collaboration with the Data Privacy Team.

• Formulate and enforce data policies, standards, and procedures to ensure effective data management and compliance across the organisation.

• Support the team with creating workflows in the catalogue.

• Work closely with Collibra GDC application users (data owners and data stewards) to oversee the creation, control, and maintenance of metadata assets.

• Collaborate with Data Office leaders, Data Privacy Team, strategic partners and stakeholders across the business

• Ensure responsible ownership, active stewardship, and compliant consumption of the firm’s data assets.

• Collaborate with the firm’s Data Privacy Team to ensure the firm’s data governance policies are robust enough to comply with relevant regulations and flexible enough to empower the firm’s digital transformation.

• Collaborate with Information Security Group (ISG) to oversee compliance with internal and external data security standards, tests, and protocols.

• Promote best practice use of the Collibra GDC tool as a super user.

Key Requirements

Essential

• 3-5 years' experience in a Data Governance, Data Management, or similar role

•  Experience with data cataloguing

• Strong understanding of data management, governance, compliance, data quality, metadata, profiling and analysis

• An understanding of Physical, Logical, and Conceptual Data Models

• Familiarity with data management best practices, tools, and technologies

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

• Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, and global distinctions between data protection regulations.

• Good communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders

Desirable

• Highly organized, proactive, and detail oriented.

• Knowledge of data-related regulatory requirements

• Experience transferring data asset management techniques to business users

Freshfields Overview

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a major international law firm, providing business law advice of the highest quality. We want to be the law firm that clients turn to for legal advice where it most matters, wherever in the world that may be. The Firm has over 2,400 lawyers in 28 offices around the world, providing a comprehensive service to national and multinational corporations, financial institutions, and governments.

Our people make our firm - we are a people business and want to create a welcoming and supportive environment where all can flourish. We see diversity as a strength which creates fresh perspectives and generates new ideas. We enjoy our work and are determined to do an outstanding job. We deliver best when working in teams. Our culture is a product of the combined mindsets and behaviours of our people which is through the Being Freshfields principles, outlined below:

• we show respect to everyone

• we are there for one another

• we are open with each other

• we are positive role models

We think and work globally - we do not just say we are one firm; we act like one firm right across the world. We work wherever our clients need us. This is how we define ourselves, not by reference to where we have offices. Cross-border work is not just what we do, it is what we excel at. We understand what it really takes to work across different legal systems and commercial environments and to bridge language and cultural gaps.

We aim to add value in everything we do - we are passionate about helping our clients succeed. We use our experience and creativity to help clients make judgements and achieve their goals. In everything we do, we seek to make a real difference to the communities in which we operate.

Freshfields is committed to promoting equality and diversity and to developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds make important and positive contributions to our business and how we service our clients.

Inclusion

Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing.

Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case-by-case basis and take a number of factors into account (e.g. the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence). You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.