Data Steward, Data Governance - Manager-

Purpose of Role:

The Finance Data Operations and Solutions Team (DOST) is responsible for providing data solutions for our Finance, Treasury and Risk business partners.  The DOST team also manages data repositories that provide critical data to the organization.

The Data Steward is a key position responsible for governance activities associated the data repositories including ensuring that they are in compliance with corporate policies and regulatory requirements.  The Data Steward is also an integral part of data solutions, ensuring that data governance is incorporated in the design.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support Day-to-Day Data Stewardship Operations.
• Support enterprise data-decision making processes and facilitate discussion to address conflicting viewpoints with the goal of arriving at mutually satisfactory agreements.
• Support leads as they guide the business and initiative area steward needs for information sourcing; provisioning; consumption; standardization; and reporting & analytics. 
• Support the resolution of data, information and processing challenges that are having an adverse impact on the operational environment and/or business performance.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and incorporate it in the data strategy.
• Participate in projects involving upstream and downstream data flows and processes to ensure compliance with data governance policy.
• Create reporting around data governance progress for key stakeholders and management.
• Participate/Initiate data quality efforts working closely with key stakeholders to design, develop and deploy process redesign, and tool implementation, where needed.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to influence staff and customers are required.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to motivate and influence staff and customers are required.
• Strong understanding of data management concepts, principles and practices.
• Ability to understand data models, data taxonomy, and a deep appreciation of data standards and data quality.
• Experience with SQL/Tableau/Spotfire or other query and business analytics tools
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent project management skills to manage multiple issues simultaneously.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Prior business operations role with data focus. Experienced in managing/monitoring data.
• Self-confidence, high energy and tenacity in bringing issues to closure and moving forward are highly desired.
• BA/BS Computer Science / Business / MIS (or equivalent work experience to substitute for education).
• Demonstrated and proven leadership ability along with proven project / people management skills.