Strategic Credit Data Governance Lead

Old Mutual; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Group Credit Investments (GCI) is seeking an experienced data governance leader to establish and run the Credit Data Governance capability. The role focuses on governance frameworks, data quality standards and accountability to support risk management, portfolio oversight and regulatory reporting.

You will work with Credit, Portfolio Management, Risk, Operations, Technology and Group Risk to drive standardisation, data dictionaries and authoritative sources across critical datasets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• Postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• Professional certification in Data Governance/Data Management/Risk Management would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the governance and management of credit and investment data assets to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Establish governance standards and controls for rating data, methodologies, hierarchies and sources.
• Partner with investment, risk and portfolio teams to support analytics, monitoring, risk oversight and regulatory reporting.
• Drive continuous enhancement of data governance practices to improve quality and decision-making.

Skills

Business Requirements Analysis

Confidentiality

Current State Assessment

Database Administration

Database Queries

Database Reporting

Data Classification

Data Compilation

Data Encoding

Data Modeling

Executing Plans

Gateway Servers

IT Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Risk Management, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics or related field

Job description

Group Credit Investments (GCI) is seeking an experienced data governance leader to establish and run the Credit Data Governance capability. The role focuses on governance frameworks, data quality standards and accountability to support risk management, portfolio oversight and regulatory reporting.

You will work with Credit, Portfolio Management, Risk, Operations, Technology and Group Risk to drive standardisation, data dictionaries and authoritative sources across critical datasets.