The Data department of a major Belgian bank is modernising its data governance and data quality practices to improve compliance and operational efficiency. The Data Quality Analyst role exists to design and implement data quality controls and KPIs for financial security datasets, with hands-on analysis using tools such as Excel and MS Access and deep domain knowledge in KYC, AML and Sanctions.
The mission
The Data Quality team sits inside the Data Governance Centre of Expertise reporting to the Chief Data Officer. The team focuses on documenting critical metadata, harmonising data definitions and embedding repeatable controls that support compliance and client lifecycle processes. Your work will touch client, KYC and transactional data used by compliance and operations teams across the bank.
On a day-to-day basis you will design and run data quality tests, build monitoring dashboards and coordinate remediation plans with IT, operations and compliance stakeholders. You will contribute to data certification activities and to committees that review client and compliance data quality, and help maintain central glossaries and dictionaries that reduce rework for downstream users. This is a medior role that requires at least three years of relevant banking experience in financial security data.
Your responsibilities
- Design and implement data quality controls and KPIs for client, KYC and transactional data to reduce business risk and manual rework
- Lead root cause analysis and propose pragmatic remediation plans, prioritised by documented business impact
- Coordinate cross-functional remediation, driving fixes through IT development, process changes or data corrections
- Monitor quality via dashboards, report outcomes to Data Quality committees and follow up on agreed actions
- Maintain and harmonise metadata, data definitions and the central glossary used by compliance and client data teams
- Share best practices and contribute use cases to the Data Quality Analysts community to improve group-wide standards
Your profile
Essential skills
- Minimum 3 years experience in data quality analysis within a bank, with exposure to Financial Security domains (KYC, AML, Sanctions)
- Strong analytical ability, comfortable with data lifecycle thinking and root cause investigation
- Proficient in Excel and MS Access and able to present findings in PowerPoint to non-technical stakeholders
- Proven stakeholder management and written and spoken communication skills
- Experience demonstrating business impact from data analysis, and the ability to translate findings into remediation plans
Preferred skills
- Experience with Collibra or other data governance tools
- Familiarity with Ab Initio, Tableau or Business Objects for monitoring and dashboards
- SQL, SAS or Python for data interrogation
- Knowledge of bank databases and previous exposure to digital data flows
Languages
- Dutch, B2
- French, B2
- English, C1
Education
- Master’s degree or equivalent professional experience