Head of Data Governance

• Head of Data Governance (Finance)
• UK-based (must be willing to re-locate to Lisbon, Portugal after 3-6 months)
• c£90,000 to £95,000 per year
• Plus excellent company benefits (Company Share Options, Bonuses, Private Healthcare, Relocation Support, etc.)

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working in a corporate managerial position within financial services and data governance
• At least 10 years of work experience in Business/Data Management and/or Finance Systems gained in an international work environment
• Strong educational background (University degree in Finance, Management, IT or equivalent, MBA studies is a strong asset)
• Business partnering skills, ability to deal with senior people and advise them on a daily basis
• Project management skills, with problem solving competencies
• Comfortable with data management and analytics
• Lead the corporate finance data governance function, providing direction and coordination on the domains of governance policies, processes and standards to ensure data quality, integrity and security
• Engage with senior internal stakeholders, gathering business requirements, aligning and coordinating the design of the data models to gather the required data/info;
• Lead a team of specialists in finance data governance, data integrity & finance systems, including resource planning and individual target setting
• Collaborate with the domains, business units IT leadership to establish data policies, processes, and standards including enforcement of data quality and security
• collaborate with central IT for data related technology directions
• Ensure the completeness of Finance Data Taxonomy (Ownerships, Local vs. Global data, Data Hierarchy)

The Opportunity:

My client are a multi-national business currently looking to hire a Head of Finance Data Governance. You will formalising the data governance and facilitating data governance implementation through the domains. As a Head of Finance Data Governance you will coordinate data integration and collection with System Governance, Master Data Integrity and EAD. In this role you oversee the development of enforcement mechanisms for ensuring policies, processes, and standards are followed - eg defining and maintaining data management framework for consistent data & reporting usage.

Applications:

To learn more about our client and this great opportunity on offer working as a Head of Data Governance across their global financial systems working on a 100% remote-basis and then out of our client's offices located in Portugal (Lisbon area); please call and speak with John Noonan here at ISR Recruitment or please email me a copy of your very latest CV and I'll call you back to discuss the role in more detail.