Data Consultant

Role: Market Data lead

Location: Mississauga, ON (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of Data Controls for CDEs, encompassing assessment, requirements definition, partnering with Technology on design/build, testing, and transition to BAU with Data Managers and Control Owners

• Partner with Markets SMEs to run control assessments, reviewing CDE level requirements against existing controls, ensuring data is properly controlled at the appropriate measurement points and assessing if a gap exists.

• Facilitate and monitor adherence to Data Quality dimensions (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency), acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for data control requirements across Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Markets Use Cases

• Define clear business and regulatory requirements for new data controls and enhancements to existing controls and frameworks, including specifying remediation strategies for identified exceptions and gaps

• Coordinate with Technology to address control gaps by providing recommendations, defining enhancements, and ensuring gaps are remediated

• Partner with Control Owners and Business Stakeholders to manage data exceptions, including remediation planning and escalation processes, proposing solutions and mitigation strategies

• Engage Markets SMEs and Data Consumers to validate control effectiveness and ensure mitigation of risks

• Provide inputs into optimization of controls, recommending enhancements to existing Data Quality and control framework

Required Qualifications & skills:

• 8-12 years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Risk/Controls functions within financial services or similarly regulated industry

• Strong SQL skills with ability to read and write complex scripts, leveraging queries for data analysis, anomaly detection, and validation or data quality and controls

• Proven ability to proactively identify gaps, issues, and opportunities for improvement through independent assessments of processes, controls, and documentation with minimal supervision.

• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and tasks in a contractor capacity with accountability for deliverables

• Strong understanding of data governance principles, including CDE frameworks and governance, data controls, Data Quality practices and dimensions, and their application

• Hands-on experience with CDE level data controls implementation, data cataloging, metadata management, and Data Quality monitoring/profiling tools (e.g., Collibra)

• Understanding of exception management processes, and ability to interpret and escalate Data Quality or Governance issues

• Excellent oral and written communications skills; must be articulate and persuasive with the judgement and authority to provide insightful commentary to senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications & skills:

• Extensive experience in risk and control (First/Second Line) or relevant consulting within Markets or Financial Services.

• Good knowledge of data used in Markets processes (trade, market data, reference data), data governance and lineage - experience in operationalizing golden sources of data

• Experience in control assessments, control testing, and/or implementation of risk mitigation actions

Education

• Bachelor's degree in business, data or information management related discipline preferred or equivalent experience in related field.

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