**Data Governance Operations Analyst - Santa Ana, Costa Rica**
Want to do work on a massively global scale with a FINTECH company that is poised to revolutionize the industry? Would you like to be a part of great work happening in Western Union to reimagine the customer experience enabling the vision of making the cross-currency, cross-border money movement seamless for our customers? Come join our growing team and help shape our company's digital capabilities and revolutionize an industry! Join Western Union as Data Governance Operations Analyst.
**Western Union powers your pursuit.**
We are looking for someone who would be part of the Data Engineering and Architecture team as Data Governance Analyst in Western Union.
**Role Responsibilities**
- Working in CDO organization primarily with the critical data that is sourced or derived in all business functions to ensure adequate governance is in place so that data used in Privacy, Risk and Finance reports are of good quality.
- Liaise with divisional and functional CDOs to make sure critical data is planned in their book of work and delivered as per Group CDO Data Management Framework (DMF).
- Understand the principles of BCBS239 regulation and drive the Data Governance process that ensures compliance from regulators standpoint.
- Liaise with Risk and Compliance SMEs to ensure critical data that is consumed in Risk and Compliance is covered under data governance scope.
- Drive process-improvements that would help in industrializing the Data Governance function.
**Role Requirements**
- Exposure to Banking processes that would help in understanding the current and strategic data architecture of the bank which helps in enabling effective Data Governance. Experience in Risk and Finance functions (Credit Risk, Market Risk, RWA, Liquidity etc.) which helps to understand CDO processes which in turn helps to drive data governance culture across all CDO processes.
- Experience in implement of Data Governance at enterprise level which include Data management, stewardships, Governance, Policy, Business process, critical data element traceability and lineage
- Hand on experience in Data analysis, Data pivoting, extracting business insight from raw data. Understanding of BCBS239 principles, Data Quality and Data lineage processes to add-value to the Data Governance capabilities.
- Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Management, Master Data Management, Reference data, Data quality, report governance and Workflow Design experience under global data management improvement initiatives is required.
- Collaborate with stakeholders from the Business, IT, and operations functions, to achieve governance objectives; resolve governance issues with functional representatives.
- Develop and monitor the organizational data metrics to continuously align data needs with the privacy compliance monitoring requirements and data governance. Provide progress reports to management and oversee periodic updates to the Governance Roadmap.
- Strong communication skills and ability to present complex information to all levels of the organization and self-motivated with ability to work independently to define and implement organizational strategy.
- Assess Data Maturity based on industry standard models & develop and collect monthly KPIs for the Data Governance program and Align data initiatives and projects to the business and technology strategy.
- Knowledge in the data privacy regulatory landscape: GDPR/ CPRA including PII and NON PII data classification and BCBS, Australian Bank regulation will be advantage and work with product owners, data architect, data engineers, data scientists, API developers and product developers to ensure data best practices are designed and implemented proactively.
**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what's next.**
Western Union is positioned to become the world's most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We're a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.
**Benefits**
You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few
Your Costa Rica
- specific benefits include:
- Asociación Solidarista
- Paid time off including extended maternity leave.
- In house company doctor services
- Continuing Education
- Transportation services options
- Parking spaces
- Hybrid model work
- Flexible Working Schedules if applicable
- Referral Program award
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and committees to volunteer with
- Carpooling Program
- Price Smart membership
- Pan American Medical and Life
