Data Governance Analyst

About Acies

Acies is multi-national firm in the business of consulting, technology applications, content management, and strategic investments. The firm has and continues to partner with leading players in the financial services and technology ecosystem with the objective of achieving tangible positive outcomes by solving complex challenges using new age technologies and practices. The firm also enters into strategic alliances through investments and partnerships with leading and upcoming global technology players that seek to address infrastructural complexities in the financial and technology marketplace through the use of new-age technologies and approaches.

Acies is headquartered in Mumbai, India and has offices in Singapore and Malaysia and is expanding its global presence in other countries in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa.

The firm is seeking to engage highly motivated and talented people to support our growth and continue to deliver a positive impact to our clients and ecosystem. We are looking for people whose integrity and excellence can help propel the firm to greater heights.

The firm provides exceptional and equal opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, physical or mental disability. We believe that our people should share in the success of our clients and our business.

For more information about the firm and its business, please visit www.acies.holdings

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Overview of the client requirements:

Job Title

Specialist, Data Governance

Dept./Division: Data Governance / Strategy & CEO Support Office

Reporting Relationships

Reports to: Senior Manager, Data Governance

Supervises: None

Role Purpose

As a Specialist Data Governance, you will ensure that day-to-day tasks are completed on time, efficiently and contributing to overall objectives of data governance. Your focus will be on to develop and maintain data governance policies, frameworks, and procedures to ensure compliance with organizational objectives. The role also includes preparing presentations and dashboards for internal and external management meetings, assisting in the implementation of the governance roadmap, coordinating with work streams on deliverables.

Key Activities: Data Governance Efficient Operations

· Develop data governance policies, processes and standards in alignment of data governance strategy, roadmap, vision and provided guidance.

· Support in implementing data governance strategies, policies and implementation of roadmap.

· Collaborate and work closely with different data stakeholders, departments, and business units to achieve Data Governance requirements.

· Analyze and prepare presentations and gap analysis related to data governance.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS

Industry/Domain: Operations / Data Management

Necessary knowledge and Experience to be able to do the job:

· 2-5 years’ work experience

· Experience should be related to business analysis roles, and it could be business analysts, process re-engineering specialists, reporting analysts, business process re-engineering experts.

· Experience in performance and financial reporting, KPIs reporting, consolidation of information from multiple sources and management of information repository would be helpful.

· Experience in program or project management environment with definition of initiatives, impact quantification and impact realization would be plus.

· An ideal candidate could be a business analyst with understanding of project management and are very interested in understanding why data maturity is essential and have some good knowledge of databases, analytics and reporting tools.

Education and Certification requirements

· University degree or Diploma specialized in IT or Data governance preferred

· Certification in Project Management (PMP) from PMI

Job specific technical Skills

· Expert in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Visio. Oracle database knowledge and query writing skills would be plus.

· Knowledge of data governance international standards, TM Forum related standards and GDPR

· Knowledge of data governance tools such as Collibra, Informatica DGC and other related tools.

· Understanding of data governance components like data catalogue and related data governance roles like stewardship, ownership and custodians.

· Understanding of organization’s data sources, its lifecycle and consumption

· Data warehousing concepts and related technologies

Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: KD5,000.000 - KD7,000.000 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kuwait City: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Data governance: 2 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

License/Certification:

• Certification in Project Management (PMP) from PMI (Preferred)
• University degree or Diploma in IT or Data governance (Preferred)

Location:

• Kuwait City (Preferred)