Data Governance Specialist
Summary
A Dublin-based Data Governance Specialist role (posted via Realtime Recruitment) for an individual contributor maintaining and improving financial data within a regulated insurance/finance environment. Day to day involves defining data ownership, quality, standards, metadata and lineage, and working with Oracle Financials alongside Finance, Risk and Compliance stakeholders.
Experienced Data Governance professional at contributor level, with 5+ years of relevant experience working within Insurance, finance; sensitive data, or a closely related data-management environment.
The ideal candidate will combine strong data governance knowledge with a practical understanding of financial and accounting processes, ideally gained within a regulated industry.
Core Requirements
- 5+ years' professional experience in data governance, data management, data quality, data stewardship, or a closely related discipline.
- Experience working specifically within a finance data / financial data environment.
- Good awareness and understanding of financial and accounting practices, terminology, processes, and data.
- Experience operating within a regulated industry, such as banking, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, utilities, or another highly regulated environment.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Financials / Oracle Finance or closely related Oracle financial-data environments.
- Understanding of data governance principles, including data ownership, data quality, data standards, metadata, data lineage, controls, and stewardship.
- Comfortable working with business and technical stakeholders to understand, define, document, and improve financial data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate data issues and identify root causes.
- Able to work independently as an individual contributor while collaborating across Finance, Data, Technology, Risk, Compliance, and other business functions.