Structured Finance Data Analyst: AI-Ready & Governance

Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match up to 6%

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Morningstar DBRS is seeking a Data Research Analyst to join our Data Management team supporting Structured Finance security mappings and enterprise data initiatives. This role ensures the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of critical datasets, while contributing to data governance and AI-ready data standards across the organization.

You will collaborate with global stakeholders across Data, Credit Operations, and Technology to perform data quality controls, investigate issues, and support

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.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with databases or SQL is an asset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform Structured Finance security mappings, ensuring accuracy and completeness of identifiers.
• Execute daily data quality controls across production datasets, including pre-publication 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

Excel

SQL

Data governance

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Data Science or Management Studies

Tools

Databases

Job description

Morningstar DBRS is seeking a Data Research Analyst to join our Data Management team supporting Structured Finance security mappings and enterprise data initiatives. This role ensures the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of critical datasets, while contributing to data governance and AI-ready data standards across the organization.

You will collaborate with global stakeholders across Data, Credit Operations, and Technology to perform data quality controls, investigate issues, and support