Job Description

Main Duties and ResponsibilitiesBusiness process improvement:

• Evaluating business processes and the associated data flows to ensure that it meets the requirements of the data governance framework accepted by the business and collaborate towards process improvements in line with strategic objectives.
• Perform requirements analysis by gathering data governance requirements from key stakeholders in line with business objectives.
• Participate in the solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that mitigate against data governance risks.
• Performing user acceptance testing of improved data workflows.
• Work with Project Team to manage projects, develop project plans, and monitor performance.
• Analyse and recommend enterprise data operating model across people, process, technology.
• Contribute to the definition of roles and responsibilities related to data governance, ensuring data ownership & accountability.
• Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise information assets, including authoritative systems, data domains, data owners, etc.
• Implement development of data quality, metadata management and data protection standards in consultation with business.
• Serve as a liaison between Business, Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements are clearly defined and communicated.
• Assist in development of KPIs for compliance and adoption of data related policies, standards and practices against agreed control objectives.
• Lead workshops to onboard client teams to data governance policies and tools.
• Map and document business processes and data steams through stakeholder engagement.

Ensure that Data Quality at the level defined by the organisation throughout the lifecycle of the data:

• De?ne acceptable data quality levels in conjunction with business owners and de?ne rules that the company must use to ensure data is available, at the right quality levels and accessed securely by authorised personnel.
• Collaborate with data owners and business analysts to analyse data for data quality issues and de?ne requirements for what quality measures needs to be tracked.
• Work with business analysts to investigate, and resolve data quality issues within enterprise applications, using various techniques while safeguarding against data loss.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree/Professional Certifications in Commerce/Information systems (Risk Management, Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems preferred)
• One or more of the following Professional Certifications preferred:
• Process Excellence Certification
• Knowledge Management Certification
• CGEIT
• Certified Data Management Professional
• CIMP Certified Information Management Professional
• Information Governance Professional
• Data Governance Certified Professional
• CISA
• Willing to consider candidates on a certification journey, i.e. exam passed and pending experience credits

Experience

• 2-3 years in a similar role
• Varonis / AvePoint /SailPoint - Preferred
• SQL; Advanced Excel; Power BI. - Must Have
• Advanced knowledge of Office 365 suite (IAM, DLP, Microsoft Entra, Data Lifecycle Management and Auditing) - Must Have
• Microsoft Compliance and Security fundamentals - Preferred
• MS SharePoint - Must Have
• MS Visio - Must Have
• Data extraction, transformation techniques. Must Have
• Visualisation/ Dashboarding- Must Have

Competencies:Knowledge and Skills
Job Skills and Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to communicate clearly.
• Ability to understand business processes, risk, and controls.
• Ability to understand objectives and data analytic procedures to meet the said objective.
• Ability to utilise industry technologies to apply data governance solutions.

Behavioural Competencies

• Critical thinking
• Time management
• Work independently as well as within a team.
• Attention to detail.

BDO Core Competencies

• Relationships and Collaboration
• Exceptional Client Service
• Engaging people
• Leadership
• Quality, Risk management and Operational performance

Other

• Draft reports and share information in di?erent ways to increase understanding.

BDO