Analytics Governance Analyst

An exciting opportunity to join a leading international financial services organisation as it builds a new Analytics Governance capability. You'll play a key role in a high-profile data transformation programme, helping to establish governance frameworks, drive regulatory compliance, and influence analytics standards across the business. This is a unique chance to shape enterprise-wide change and leave a lasting impact.

Client Details

Our client is a leading global financial institution with a strong presence across EMEA and an ambitious data transformation agenda. Following substantial investment in its Data Office function, the organisation is focused on building industry-leading governance, data management, and analytics capabilities to support regulatory requirements and unlock greater business value from data.

With a rapidly expanding data function and strong executive sponsorship, this is an excellent opportunity to influence change at scale within a highly visible programme.

Description

• Champion Analytics Governance standards and promote best practice across the organisation.
• Identify, classify, catalogue and maintain inventories of Key Data Uses (KDUs) and End User Computing (EUC) tools.
• Conduct governance assessments and gap analyses against established policies, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Define and track remediation plans with business owners to address identified governance gaps.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks covering the lifecycle of analytics assets, from development through to retirement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business and technology teams to drive adoption of governance standards.
• Support compliance initiatives aligned to BCBS239 and broader regulatory expectations.
• Produce governance reporting, project updates and management information for senior stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor, educating teams on analytics governance principles and driving cultural change.

Profile

You will bring a blend of governance expertise, regulatory knowledge, stakeholder management skills, and a passion for driving organisational change.

• Proven experience establishing Analytics Governance and/or EUC Governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of BCBS239 principles and data-related regulatory requirements within financial services.
• Experience working within banking or financial services environments.
• Hands-on experience with governance and cataloguing tools such as Collibra, Apparity, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of analytics and reporting lifecycles, including relevant SDLC practices.
• Experience facilitating governance adoption across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication, influencing, coaching and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Knowledge of ECB-related regulatory programmes.
• Experience with Power BI and/or Tableau.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance, data lineage, and metadata management.
• Experience enabling controlled self-service analytics environments.

Job Offer

• Daily rate between £500 and £700, dependent on the level of experience.
• 2-3 days per week in the office (London - Liverpool Street)
• 6 month initial contract
• Opportunity to build a governance capability from the ground up.
• High-profile role within a major transformation programme.
• Exposure to senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
• The chance to influence enterprise-wide data and analytics strategy.