Description
We are seeking a Financial Data Governance Lead to establish strong data ownership, quality standards, and governance practices across financial products and operational systems.
This is a senior role for a professional who understands that reliable financial data is essential to everything from transaction monitoring and reporting to product decisions, customer servicing, and business performance.
The Opportunity
You will work across data, engineering, finance, risk, compliance, and product teams to create a consistent framework for managing critical financial information throughout its lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Define governance standards for critical financial and transactional datasets.
- Establish data ownership and accountability across business and technical teams.
- Develop data-quality standards, controls, and monitoring processes.
- Create practical frameworks for data classification, access, retention, and usage.
- Establish business glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata standards.
- Improve traceability and lineage across financial data flows.
- Identify recurring data-quality issues and coordinate remediation.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve data architecture and validation.
- Support finance, risk, compliance, and reporting teams with trusted datasets.
- Develop governance metrics and executive-level reporting.
- Participate in data-risk assessments and control reviews.
- Promote responsible data-management practices across the organization.
Candidate Profile
- 6+ years of experience in data governance, financial data management, data quality, analytics, or a related field.
- Experience within fintech, banking, payments, financial services, or regulated technology.
- Strong understanding of data-management principles and information lifecycles.
- Comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and documentation skills.
- Experience with SQL and modern data platforms.
- Understanding of privacy, security, and regulatory considerations affecting financial data.
Technical Environment
Experience with SQL, cloud data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI platforms, metadata tools, data catalogs, APIs, and modern data architectures is valuable.
Why This Opportunity
You will help establish the data foundation required for a fintech organization to scale responsibly.
Ideal candidate: a structured data professional who can turn governance requirements into practical standards that improve data quality without slowing down innovation.
Are you interested in this position?
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