Policy and Foundational Data Governance Analyst

US Bank; Chennai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bancorp India is seeking a seasoned professional to strengthen governance and controls across business, data, and technology. You will perform control design assessments, mapping, and periodic policy refreshes while ensuring audit-readiness and timely deliverables.

The role requires 6–9 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and strong communication and project management skills. You will collaborate with business lines, technology teams, and control partners in a regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 6–9 years total experience in governance, risk, or controls.
• Experience in a regulated banking/financial services environment is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Perform control design assessments, operating effectiveness reviews, and QA testing.
• Support governance processes, ownership, frequency, evidence, escalation, and approvals.
• Evaluate control mapping across business, data, and tech processes and identify gaps.
• Refresh EDG policies, standards, and procedures; assess consistency and impact.
• Execute governance maturity assessments and provide actionable recommendations.
• Oversee the Key Reports program governance, risk assessment, and reporting.
• ADS review and risk assessment for data sources.
• Conduct risk-based QA across EDG processes and ensure audit-readiness.
• Collaborate with Business Lines, tech teams, and control partners to resolve questions.
• Prepare concise EDG reporting and executive-ready updates on status and actions.
• Assist internal assessments, audits, and regulatory examinations, including evidence coordination.

Skills

Data governance

Risk management

Compliance

Internal controls

Issue management

Ownership

Analytical skills

Project management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

SharePoint

Power BI

Power Automate

Power Apps

LEAP

Collibra

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

At U.S. Bancorp India, we're on a journey to do our best. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

The successful candidate will combine strong critical thinking, communication, and analytical skills with the ability to understand business, technology, data, and reporting processes and identify governance or control gaps. The role requires sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, a strong sense of ownership, and disciplined attention to detail. The candidate must be able to work independently, provide constructive credible challenge, develop clear and defensible documentation, and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically, 6 - 9 years of total experience

Roles & Responsibilities

• Perform control design assessments, operating effectiveness reviews, and quality assurance testing; document procedures, evidence, results, and conclusions so they can be independently understood and reproduced.
• Support the design and enhancement of governance processes and controls, including clearly defined ownership, frequency, evidence, escalation, and approval requirements.
• Evaluate control mapping across business, data, and technology processes, including alignment to relevant IT controls and identification of gaps or duplication.
• Support periodic refreshes of EDG policies, standards, procedures, and supporting guidance; assess changes for consistency, clarity, and operational impact.
• Execute governance maturity assessments, validate supporting evidence, identify themes and gaps, and develop clear recommendations for accountable stakeholders.
• Support governance and oversight of the Key Reports program, including inventory, risk assessment, control alignment, issue identification, and reporting.
• ADS (Authoritative Data Sources) review and risk assessment
• Perform risk-based quality assurance reviews across EDG processes and challenge whether conclusions are adequately supported, consistently applied, and audit-ready.
• Partner with Business Lines, technology teams, control partners, and other stakeholders to resolve governance questions, clarify requirements, and drive timely completion of deliverables.
• Prepare accurate, concise EDG reporting and executive-ready updates that highlight status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and required actions.
• Support internal assessments, audit and regulatory examinations, including evidence coordination, response development, issue analysis, and remediation validation.
• Maintain procedures, templates, job aids, and records of decision that translate policy requirements into clear, executable, and testable expectations.

Required skills/experience

• Strong knowledge of data governance, risk management, compliance, audit, internal controls, and issue management concepts.
• Ability to understand Business Line operations, products and services, systems, data flows, reporting processes, and associated risks and controls.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, regulatory expectations, and risk trends relevant to financial services and data governance.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably banking or financial markets.
• Strong sense of ownership, ability to work autonomously, prioritize based on tactical and strategic objectives and elevate as needed
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, process facilitation, and project management skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive work to completion without relying on direct authority.
• Strong relationship-building, consultation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to deliver constructive credible challenge.
• Effective presentation, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Technical aptitude and experience with SharePoint, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps and/or LEAP, and data governance or data platforms such as Collibra, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• Training and Communications background focusing on diverse set of activities, channels and audiences

Work Mode

5 Days, Work From Office

Shift Timings

Standard Time: 2:30 PM - 10:30 PM IST
Daylight Savings Time: 1:30 PM - 9:30 PM IST

Location

Chennai

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.