Business Data Analyst - Data Quality & Data Governance (Banking)

Business Data Analyst – Data Quality & Governance (Banking)

Key Skills: Credit Risk, Treasury, CDE, Regulatory Reporting, SQL

Data Governance Business Systems Analyst – Financial Data, Data Quality & SQL

Location: Toronto – Hybrid 2 days a week in office

Key Responsibilities

• Support the implementation and execution of Data Governance frameworks for financial, risk, lending, and regulatory data.
  
• Identify and document Critical Data Elements (CDEs), including definitions, ownership, stewardship, and data flows.
  
• Develop and maintain end-to-end data lineage, metadata, and source-to-target mappings.
  
• Define, monitor, and improve Data Quality controls and standards.
  
• Perform data reconciliation, variance analysis, and investigate data quality issues.
  
• Conduct root-cause analysis and coordinate remediation with business and technology teams.
  
• Document business rules, transformation logic, data mappings, and system dependencies.
  
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions to establish data ownership, resolve issues, and drive governance initiatives.
  
• Track data quality issues, risks, remediation actions, and governance decisions.
  
• Prepare governance reports, issue summaries, and audit/regulatory documentation.
  
• Support compliance, risk, audit, and regulatory reporting requirements.
  
• Promote consistent data governance, metadata, and data quality practices across the organization.
  

Top 3 Required Skills

1. Financial Domain Knowledge

• Knowledge of financial products, treasury, credit risk, exposures, and regulatory reporting.
  
• Experience with financial/risk reporting and business rules.
  

2. Data Governance

• Experience with data lineage, metadata, CDEs, and data ownership.
  
• Strong understanding of Data Quality controls (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, etc.).
  

3. Stakeholder Management

• Ability to work with Finance, Risk, Technology, Compliance, and Operations teams.
  
• Strong communication, issue resolution, and governance reporting skills.
  

Top 3 Preferred Skills

1. Data Analysis & SQL

• Strong SQL, data reconciliation, variance analysis, and root-cause investigation skills.
  

2. Financial Systems & Reporting

• Familiarity with lending, treasury, risk, data warehouse, and regulatory reporting systems (Loan IQ/APMS is a plus).
  

3. Documentation & Issue Management

• Experience with issue tracking, remediation, data lineage, mappings, governance reporting, and business/technical documentation.
  

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Data Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  
• Relevant certifications (CDMP, CBAP, CFA, FRM, CPA, etc.) preferred.
  
• Equivalent education and professional experience will be considered.