Data & Governance Specialist

National Foods Limited; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 900,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

National Foods Limited is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to drive day‑to‑day governance operations. You will monitor data quality, maintain governance docs, and coordinate with business and IT teams to ensure master and transactional data remain accurate and compliant across SAP and related systems.

The role reports to the Head of IT Governance & Cybersecurity and is based at Corporate Head Office, Karachi, with a focus on risk & compliance and internal audits related to data handling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science or related, with 2–4 years hands‑on data governance experience.
• Experience with SAP Master Data Governance (MDG/MDM) or data quality tooling is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute data governance policies across master and transactional data domains (customer, vendor, material, pricing, employee).
• Maintain ownership & stewardship registers and follow up with data owners.
• Monitor data quality across SAP and connected systems against KPIs (completeness, accuracy, duplication, timeliness).
• Process and validate MD creation/change requests per approvals and audit trails.
• Build dashboards showing live data health for IT leadership.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder coordination

Documentation & auditing

Education

Bachelors in CS/IT/Data Science

Tools

SAP MDG/MDM

Data quality tooling

Job description

At National Foods Limited, we are on a journey of growth and on building our most valuable assets which include our brands, financial strength, global presence, and our unbridled commitment to becoming a truly sustainable and a renowned company in the world.

Job Purpose

To execute day-to-day data governance operations at National Foods Limited under the direction of the Head of IT Governance & Cybersecurity – monitoring data quality, maintaining governance and risk/audit documentation, and coordinating with business and IT teams to keep master and transactional data across business’s systems accurate, complete and compliant with defined policy.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Execute and maintain NFL's data governance policy, standards and operating procedures -as defined by the Head of IT Governance & Cybersecurity -across master and transactional data domains (customer, vendor, material, pricing, employee).
• Maintain the data ownership and stewardship register, following up with business data owners on their assigned accountabilities for data creation, maintenance and quality at source.
• Monitor data quality across SAP and connected systems against defined KPIs (completeness, accuracy, duplication, timeliness); log root causes and follow up corrective action with data owners.
• Process and validate master data creation/change requests (MDM) in line with approval workflows, segregation-of-duties rules and audit-trail requirements.
• Build and maintain data quality dashboards that give business and IT leadership a live view of data health across key domains.
• Maintain the data governance and IT risk register; track identified risks, mitigation plans and closure of action items to deadline.
• Monitor compliance with data privacy and information security requirements relevant to NFL's data handling, escalating exposure areas to the Head of IT Governance & Cybersecurity.
• Coordinate internal and external IT/data audit activities – evidence preparation, walkthroughs, and tracking of audit observations through to closure.
• Support the wider IT Governance & Cybersecurity function on data-related controls, policy monitoring, and periodic governance/compliance reporting.
• Coordinate with IT teams on security-related activities that touch data assets, including access controls, retention and classification.
• Maintain governance, risk and data documentation repositories as a single source of truth for the function.
• Prepare periodic data governance and compliance status reports and dashboards for IT leadership and management review.
• Act as the go-to point of contact for data quality queries and escalations from business users across functions.
• Support delivery of data governance and data quality awareness sessions for business process owners and data entry teams, reinforcing governance practices in daily ways of working.

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Statistics or a related discipline, with 2 – 4 years of hands‑on experience in data governance operations, master data management, business intelligence, or IT audit/risk & compliance support, ideally within FMCG, manufacturing or a similarly complex ERP (SAP) environment
• Prior exposure to SAP Master Data Governance (MDG/MDM), data quality tooling, or IT audit environments strongly preferred

LOCATION:

Corporate Head Office, Karachi.

National Foods Limited provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.