Data Research Analyst: Structured Finance & Data Governance

Morningstar, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health benefits

Sabbatical program

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Charitable matching

Job summary

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Data Research Analyst to join our Data Management team, supporting Structured Finance security mappings and enterprise data initiatives. You will ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical datasets while contributing to governance and AI-ready data standards.

You will work with global stakeholders across Data, Credit Operations, and Technology to drive data quality and regulatory alignment in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Data Science or Management Studies.
• 1–3 years of experience in data governance, data operations, analytics, or financial services.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with time-sensitive, high-quality data.
• Proven ability to analyze, reconcile, and validate datasets from multiple sources.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with databases or SQL is an asset.
• Strong written and verbal communication for cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Perform Structured Finance security mappings, ensuring accuracy and completeness of identifiers.
• Execute daily data quality controls across production datasets, including prepublication validations and reconciliations against external sources.
• Contribute to data governance and AI ready initiatives, including population and maintenance of metadata, data dictionary, and mapping out data lineage
• Investigate, resolve, and document data issues in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Support regulatory and reporting processes, including execution of data quality checks aligned to regulatory standards
• Reconcile regulatory datasets and reporting outputs to ensure consistency and compliance

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Data analysis

Excel

SQL

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL databases

Job description

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a Data Research Analyst to join our Data Management team, supporting Structured Finance security mappings and enterprise data initiatives. You will ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of critical datasets while contributing to governance and AI-ready data standards.

You will work with global stakeholders across Data, Credit Operations, and Technology to drive data quality and regulatory alignment in a hybrid work environment.