Risk Data & Governance Analyst

Heitmeyer Consulting; Mount Laurel Township (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Risk Data Management & Integrity professional to source, aggregate, and govern data across systems for governance and reporting.

The role emphasizes risk analytics, dashboards, and insights, translating complex data for senior management and regulators, with QA, standards, and automation in a large banking context.

Qualifications

• Must have risk data governance background with technical skills.
• Comfort with Power BI and Power Apps, Copilot, advanced Excel techniques.
• Dashboard creation and metrics development with governance lens.
• Finance/FI industry banking experience in a large institution.
• Strong communication skills – collaborative, self-starter, able to act independently.

Responsibilities

• Source, aggregate, and manage data across multiple internal systems to support governance, risk, and management reporting.
• Maintain data integrity by enforcing standards for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and traceability across all reporting outputs.
• Partner with data providers and enterprise data teams to resolve data discrepancies and ensure alignment across sources.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, emerging risks, performance drivers, and control gaps.
• Facilitate investigation of metric breaches with risk owners to determine remediation efforts.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for senior management, committees, and regulators.
• Provide forward-looking analysis to support decision-making, risk prioritization, and strategic planning.
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards and recurring reports for governance and oversight.
• Ensure reporting is clearly articulated, decision-focused, and aligned to risk appetite and KPIs/ KRIs/ KCIs.
• Deliver timely reporting to management committees, boards, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Execute QA reviews on reporting outputs to validate data accuracy and narrative consistency.
• Implement QA checkpoints, including peer reviews and data validation routines.
• Ensure reporting is audit-ready, well-documented, and reproducible.
• Establish and maintain reporting standards and procedures for consistency.
• Support metric definition, annual refreshes, and threshold alignment with stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and reduce manual processes.
• Leverage dashboards, analytics tools, and automation to improve efficiency and insight quality.
• Drive continuous enhancement of data quality and analytical depth.

Skills

Risk Data & Governance

Power BI

Power Apps

Excel advanced

Banking experience

Communication skills

Tools

Copilot

Job description

Work Location: Remote until onsite RTO is in place in 2027 – Must be in 40 miles from Mount Laurel, NJ.

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE:
Risk Data Management & Integrity

• Source, aggregate, and manage data across multiple internal systems to support governance, risk, and management reporting.
• Maintain data integrity by enforcing standards for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and traceability across all reporting outputs.
• Partner with data providers and enterprise data teams to resolve data discrepancies and ensure alignment across sources.

Risk Analytics & Insights Development

• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, emerging risks, performance drivers, and control gaps.
• Facilitate investigation of metric excess breaches with risk owners to determine remediation efforts needed by the business.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights tailored for senior management, committees, and regulators.
• Provide forward?looking analysis to support decision?making, risk prioritization, and strategic planning.

Reporting & Visualization

• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards and recurring reports that support governance and business oversight.
• Ensure reporting is clearly articulated, decision?focused, and aligned to established risk appetite, KPIs, KRIs, and KCIs.
• Deliver timely, consistent reporting to management committees, boards, and regulatory stakeholders.

Quality Assurance & Controls

• Execute quality assurance reviews on all reporting outputs to validate data accuracy, completeness, methodology, and narrative consistency prior to publication.
• Implement documented QA checkpoints, including peer reviews, data validation routines, and exception tracking.
• Confirm that reporting outputs meet internal governance standards and audit expectations with clear evidence of review and approval.

Governance & Standards

• Establish and maintain reporting standards, documentation, and procedures to ensure consistency and sustainability of insights production.
• Support metric definition, annual refreshes, and threshold alignment in partnership with metric owners and stakeholders.
• Ensure all reporting activities are audit?ready, well?documented, and reproducible.

Continuous Improvement & Enablement

• Identify and implement opportunities to automate reporting, reduce manual processes, and minimize operational risk.
• Leverage technology (e.g., dashboards, analytics tools, automation) to improve efficiency and insight quality.
• Drive continuous enhancement of data quality, reporting effectiveness, and analytical depth.

MUST HAVE Skills:

1. Risk Data and Governance background with technical skills. Not necessarily a developer
2. Some degree of comfort with Power BI and Power Apps, Copilot, advanced Excel techniques,
3. Dashboard creation and skilled in gathering quantitative data from stakeholders and development of metrics, whether it’s calculating them, establishing thresholds and limits, and applying those with a governance lens
4. FI industry and banking experience at a large institution
5. Strong communication skills – collaborative, self-starter able action independently

NICE TO HAVE

1. Commercial Banking experience