Data Analyst - Data Governance Enablement & Control

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Data Analyst to join our team, focusing on data governance enablement and control. The ideal candidate will support the development and implementation of data governance frameworks, ensure data quality, and promote data management best practices across the organization.
 

This role focuses on ensuring data accuracy, monitoring data handling processes, and contributing to the continuous improvement of data control governance and change management practices. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a passion for problem-solving with good project management skills.

Acts as a liaison among business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business products; processes and systems. Collects, analyses and synthesizes data to document requirements, ensuring needs of stakeholder are met. Understands product needs in the context of internal & external requirements and/or architecture development information.

About the Role:

• Elicits and documents client business requirements.
• Develops and improves business processes within the technology and business organizations, understanding business requirements, specifying and analyzing these to a sufficient level of detail to ensure clarity of definition.
• Conduct preliminary Data Risk and Control Assessments to identify potential issues and suggest remediation steps.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with data control/governance standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support data handling practices to ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and internal guidelines.
• Manage data retention and disposal processes to ensure compliance with legal and business requirements.
• Support and monitor data security measures to protect sensitive information.
• Assist in refresh to Data control, governance Policies and Procedures, contributing insights and updates for process improvements.
• Analyse and monitor in-scope data questions, issues, and requests, ensuring timely and accurate resolutions.
• Analyze data to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies that impact data quality and governance.
• Collaborate with data stewards and business units to promote data control/governance best practices.
• Provide training and support to employees on data governance and data management practices.
• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to track data governance metrics and compliance.
• Participate in data governance working groups and ensure escalations of unresolved issues or roadblocks
• Ensures change management and communication of change to team is done in a systematic way for medium level projects.
• Implements improvements to process or product as directed by management.
• Develops a strong awareness and understanding of Thomson Reuters technologies, products, and services in assigned area.

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Data Analyst or in a similar role, with a focus on data control and governance with 2-5 years of experience.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools such as SQL, Excel, and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx etc).
• Experience with data and governance frameworks and analytics tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan, AI/BI Tools).
• Thorough understanding of data pipeline and architecture and system infrastructures
• Strong understanding of data control/governance frameworks and best practices.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) is a plus.

Key Competencies:

• Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy and thoroughness in data management practices.
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to analyze data and identify issues related to data quality and governance.
• Communication: Excellent ability to communicate data governance policies and procedures clearly.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in data analysis tools and technologies.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Success Metrics

Compliance Rate

• Criteria: Ensure compliance with data governance policies and regulatory requirements.
• Measurement: 95% Percentage of compliance with data governance standards and regulations.

Data Governance Adoption

• Criteria: Promote and achieve widespread adoption of data governance practices.
• Measurement: 80% Percentage of business units adopting data governance policies and procedures.

Issue Resolution Time

• Criteria: Resolve data governance issues promptly.
• Measurement: ~48-72 hours - Average time taken to resolve data and governance issues.

This role is critical in ensuring that our data control and governance practices are robust, compliant, and aligned with our strategic goals. If you are passionate about data governance and have a proven track record in data management, we encourage you to apply.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  
  

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  
  

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  
  

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  
  

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  
  

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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