Senior Data Governance Analyst (Toronto, ON)

Senior Data Governance Analyst

Type: Full-Time / Permanent

Location: Fully Remote with 1 day/week onsite in Toronto included

🧭 Overview

• Our client is looking for a Data Governance Specialist to join an established engagement supporting one of Canada's leading financial institutions.
• This is a hands-on Data Governance / Enterprise Data Management role within an Enterprise Data Lifecycle Management workstream, focused on Data Retention & Disposition, Data Stewardship, Data Quality, Data Remediation, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness.
• This is primarily an execution role, working within established processes and SOPs rather than defining governance strategy.
• Applicants must be based in Toronto. This role includes Hybrid flexibility: approximately one day per week onsite in Toronto, with four days remote.

🛠️ What You'll Be Doing

• Execute data retention and disposition workflows using established governance processes and SOPs.
• Create and maintain data asset records, governance documentation, and audit evidence.
• Progress data issues and remediation tickets through completion.
• Support retention code assignment, validation, retention schedules, and disposition activities.
• Coordinate with application owners, data stewards, technical teams, and governance stakeholders.
• Track workflows.
• Manage multiple parallel workstreams and proactively follow up on blockers and outstanding actions.
• Lead stakeholder meetings independently once fully ramped.

🧩 Desired Experience

• 4–5+ years in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Stewardship, Business Analysis, or a compliance-adjacent role.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Inventory, Data Quality, Data Retention & Disposition, Records Management, and Data Controls.
• Experience within a large, matrixed and highly regulated organization.
• Financial services experience preferred, including banking, insurance, capital markets, or private equity. Other highly regulated industries will be considered.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, or comparable workflow/ticketing tools.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, and structured reporting.
• Experience with Power BI and/or Tableau.
• Strong stakeholder management, documentation, and project coordination skills.

🎯 Ideal Profile

• Highly proactive and able to independently unblock yourself when stakeholders or SMEs aren't readily available.
• Strong follow-through—you close the loop rather than assuming something has been completed.
• Comfortable managing numerous stakeholders and open threads simultaneously.
• Able to navigate ambiguity, changing requirements, and demanding environments.
• Excellent attention to detail and comfortable working within highly documented processes.
• Strong communicator who takes ownership..

🚀 Why This Opportunity

• Be hands-on with complex data lifecycle, retention, disposition, regulatory, and audit-readiness initiatives.
• High-ownership role where you'll quickly become trusted to independently manage stakeholder relationships and workstreams.