Data Governance Analyst; FTC)

The vacancy OVERALL SUMMARY

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity and promote inclusivity. Vacancies are available on a part‑time, job‑share or full‑time basis because we know the best person for the job isn't always available full‑time. Our aim is to facilitate requests wherever possible and managers will consider requests on an individual basis.

Join the Close Brothers Risk Team where you will help ensure that customer, account and remediation data is appropriately governed, documented, understood and controlled throughout its lifecycle. Working as part of the Customer Resolutions team our ideal team member will have previous experience in performing data analysis, data profiling and data quality assessment activities with excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Support the implementation of data governance controls, standards and procedures in line with Close Brothers data governance frameworks.
• Assist in understanding and documenting data provisioning requirements from internal stakeholders, third parties and regulatory organisations.
• Produce regular data quality reporting, dashboards and management information for stakeholders.
• Identify, investigate and document data quality issues, exceptions and control failures.
• Support requirements traceability activities, ensuring data requirements can be linked to source systems and business objectives.
• Build effective working relationships with data owners, business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Support the identification and management of data‑related risks and issues.

• Strong SQL skills with the ability to query, analyse and investigate data from large and complex datasets.
• Produced reports, dashboards and visualisations using data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Business Objects or equivalent.
• Experience documenting and maintaining metadata, business definitions and data governance artefacts.
• Understanding of data governance principles, including data quality, lineage, metadata and critical data elements
• Investigated data quality issues, identifying root causes and supporting remediation activity.

• Experience using Microsoft Purview or similar data governance, metadata management or data catalogue tooling.
• Experience producing data lineage diagrams, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), process flows or other data governance visualisations.
• Used Power BI as an enterprise reporting and visualisation platform.
• DAMA Data Management Foundation (or working towards).
• Relevant data governance, analysis, engineering or management certification.
• Used Python or other data analysis technologies.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs that require adjustments to ensure they have a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their skills and abilities. Candidates who require the job description or application form in an alternative format, or any other adjustments, are encouraged to email us at  or request a call back.

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working. Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking and securities trading. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Close Brothers Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250.

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Close Brothers is a UK specialist banking group providing lending and deposit taking. We employ approximately 3,000 people, principally in the…