Business Data Analyst – Data Quality & Data Governance (Banking)

Business Data Analyst Data Quality & Governance (Banking)

Key Skills: Credit Risk Treasury CDE Regulatory Reporting SQL

Data Governance Business Systems Analyst Financial Data Data Quality & SQL

Location: Toronto Hybrid 2 days a week in office

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and execution of Data Governance frameworks for financial risk lending and regulatory data.
  
• Identify and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs) including definitions ownership stewardship and data flows.
  
• Develop and maintain end-to-end data lineage metadata and source-to-target mappings.
  
• Define monitor and improve Data Quality controls and standards.
  
• Perform data reconciliation variance analysis and investigate data quality issues.
  
• Conduct root-cause analysis and coordinate remediation with business and technology teams.
  
• Document business rules transformation logic data mappings and system dependencies.
  
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to establish data ownership resolve issues and drive governance initiatives.
  
• Track data quality issues risks remediation actions and governance decisions.
  
• Prepare governance reports issue summaries and audit/regulatory documentation.
  
• Support compliance risk audit and regulatory reporting requirements.
  
• Promote consistent data governance metadata and data quality practices across the organization.
  

Top 3 Required Skills

1. Financial Domain Knowledge

• Knowledge of financial products treasury credit risk exposures and regulatory reporting.
  
• Experience with financial/risk reporting and business rules.
  

2. Data Governance

• Experience with data lineage metadata CDEs and data ownership.
  
• Strong understanding of Data Quality controls (accuracy completeness consistency timeliness etc.).
  

3. Stakeholder Management

• Ability to work with Finance Risk Technology Compliance and Operations teams.
  
• Strong communication issue resolution and governance reporting skills.
  

Top 3 Preferred Skills

1. Data Analysis & SQL

• Strong SQL data reconciliation variance analysis and root-cause investigation skills.
  

2. Financial Systems & Reporting

• Familiarity with lending treasury risk data warehouse and regulatory reporting systems (Loan IQ/APMS is a plus).
  

3. Documentation & Issue Management

• Experience with issue tracking remediation data lineage mappings governance reporting and business/technical documentation.
  

Education & Certifications

• Bachelors degree in Finance Business Economics Data Management Information Systems Computer Science or related field.
  
• Relevant certifications (CDMP CBAP CFA FRM CPA etc.) preferred.
  
• Equivalent education and professional experience will be considered.