Description:

• Job Title/Location: Data Analyst/Steward, Surrey & WFH
• Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 + average bonus of 15% + pension contribution to 13%
• WFH: Average week of 1-2 days office & 3-4 days WFH
• Requirements: At least 2-3 years data analysis/management/stewardship experience, ideally within Financial Services/Banking/Insurance. SQL/Python/Excel experience useful
• Role Snapshot: A newly created hub, will expose you to data cleansing, management and remediation relating to a variety of projects including transformation programmes and new systems - providing the link between the tech teams and the business

The Company/Dept: This company has built a great reputation for developing people within the Financial Services sector and they are going through a sustained period of expansion. This newly created Data Management Hub is a support function that sits within a Personal Advisory arm of the business and is designed to provide support from within operations to the business and technology functions. The focus is on data quality, including the provision of a data quality scorecard, data strategy implementation, data cleansing and metadata management.

The Role: Three new Data Stewards are sought. A variety of projects will range from domain management, including prioritisation of data issues, technology enhancement, data quality requirements and data cleansing, to SME input to strategic initiatives. You will be required to support investigation of issues where the behaviour or use of the data appears to be wrong and triage issues through to resolution. Key responsibilities include:

• Represent the Data Domain pro-actively on Projects and change initiatives, providing expertise and offering insights into current solutions available.
• Actively monitor, report and manage data quality within your data domain with the support of the Data Management Hub
• Take on metadata management, including lineage and data change
• Manage and report Data Management issues
• Support Data Owners, ensuring that data is provisioned and distributed to the right Data Consumers, internally or externally.
• Take on oversight of data protection and privacy activities
• Triage and provide prioritisation guidance support on the resolution of Data Issues.

Experience/Skills Required: For this Data Analyst/Steward role, our client is looking for strong data analysis/data management experience, ideally within Financial Services/Banking/Insurance coupled with strong communication skills, someone able to acquire feedback from the operations teams, influence decisions and present progress to senior stakeholder. You should have the ability to understand technical system configurations, ideally have some domain knowledge and possibly have had exposure to MS Excel, SQL and Python, although that is not essential.

Additional Information: The salary is up to £50,000 with an average bonus of around 15% and also a company pension contribution to 13%. There are a wide range of additional life/health benefits, retail discounts etc and that WFH flexibility alongside the opportunity to develop long-term.

The Data Analyst/Steward position is one of a number of vacancies we are handling. ARC is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment and the Consultant handling this role has over 25 years of experience in this field. Areas of expertise include IFA Administration, compliance, customer services, pensions admin/technical roles, mortgage administration, paraplanners, marketing, underwriters and IT related roles. Check the website and feel free to call Darren Snell at any time.

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