Senior Associate - Data Governance

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As a Senior Associate - Data Governance, you will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, secure, and high-quality data management across the organisation. You will achieve this by orchestrating policies, processes, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders, even without direct control over all resources.

Reporting directly to the Chief Data Officer, you will work closely with cross‑functional teams to promote adherence to internal policies and local statutory requirements, while facilitating responsible data usage across business lines.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of data governance theory, standard methodology and practical considerations (ability to focus on “minimum viable governance”).
• Work cross‑functionally to develop, implement, and continuously improve firm‑wide data management processes, for example collaborate with :
• Legal and risk management : Ensure compliance with local data privacy laws (e.g., PDPA), regulatory requirements, and ethical AI principles.
• IT security : Align data governance with security policies and controls to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Business units : Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders and data stewards to embed governance into business processes.
• Academy : Champion data literacy and governance awareness.
• Digital : Ensure governance is built into data platforms and integration architecture.
• Periodic engagement with global SMEs to align Network Data Policy (NDP) requirements, ensuring relevant information is cascaded to Data Committee members for information or further action.
• Connect with other territories and global SMEs to understand data governance best practices for adoption locally.
• Support Chief Data Officer on key initiatives, issues tracking and improvement plans including preparing relevant presentation materials.
• Create local policies to facilitate responsible use, sharing & retention of data (aligned with local business strategy or local legal requirements).
• Experience with data related tools e.g. data catalog, data anonymisation, data retention, data classification.
• Experience working with data stewards / owners who assist with implementing established data related policies.
• Facilitate / support training requirements for all employees on data literacy, data use, data protection, data security etc.
• Involved in the administration of data committee - engage with x-business unit representation, prepare meeting deck, track actions, provide updates from network on data related initiatives.
• Familiar with conducting risk assessment to identify local information protection risk.

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