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Data Governance Analyst

The Global Business Intelligence (BI) team is responsible for aligning the firm’s sales focus with our highest impact solutions and improving execution through targeted data-driven management. Specifically, the BI team is responsible for digitizing our sales processes using CRM and other related sales technologies to drive the entire customer journey on a globally consistent basis and supporting the integration and enhancement of the firm’s Go-To-Market (GTM) architecture design, data, and technology. In addition to improving our user experience, the team is responsible for improving the firm’s global business and sales reporting and analytics.

The primary role of the Data Governance Analyst is to drive strategy, execution, and ongoing oversight of data governance projects and standards that support the growth and scalability of sales technologies including Microsoft Dynamics CRM. This role is targeted at individuals who are looking to leverage their existing experience to grow into a critical central figure within our Global Business Intelligence team and with the internal and external clients we serve. 

You will partner with key stakeholders across the organization to develop a deep understanding of business needs, perform analysis, and execute solutions to transform the business through governance processes, technology, and policies.
  
The Analyst will also be responsible for data governance programs to support our strong data culture.

The responsibilities of the individual in this position include:
  • Grow and enhance our enterprise data governance program 
  • Provide input in the overarching global data architecture from a sales enablement and sales operations  perspective
  • Help execute the data governance strategy to support the organization's strategic objectives - specifically around self-service 
  • Implements solutions to improve data quality for all data domains 
  • Collaborates with teams to establish consistency in developing recommendations around policies, standards, and framework for data governance 
  • Collaborates with partners across the organization in designing and maintaining the data governance and data quality structures ensuring business needs are met while balancing quality, risk, effort, and cost 
  • Map and assess current processes and structures for data governance and identify gaps and areas for improvement 
  • Enhance and implement a multi-year data governance & data management roadmap 
  • Facilitates strong engagement of data stewards and data domain owners to ensure governance function delivers measurable business value 
  • Evaluating and assessing upstream solutions to reduce manual ad-hoc data requests flowing regularly into the sales operations inbox 
  • Provides support to other teams and data projects to ensure accurate alignment to data governance policies including data classification, data quality, data cataloging, and data discovery 
  • Support projects that impact data migration and data governance 
  • Managing and prioritizing the opportunities to apply standards and policies to data and areas where authoritative source of data should be used 
  
The successful candidate will have extensive demonstrable skills and experiences including the following:

  • Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, or a related Information Technology/Engineering discipline
  • Strong knowledge of and work experience with SQL or other querying languages used with relational databases is required
  • Knowledge of technical system requirements and operational processes and procedures in an asset management, management consulting, financial services, or sales organization is a plus
  • Experience working with Python, and/or R is a plus
  • Experience with data, data architecture, modeling, trends analysis, and statistics
  • Experience with data analysis using various scripting languages, tools, and/or platforms
  • Experience with data integration, system consolidation, data management, and business reporting
  • Experience with CRM platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce is a plus
  • Experience in soliciting, documenting requirements and liaising between business and technology teams
  • Technical background with strong analytical, quantitative, problem-solving and pattern recognition skills
  • Ability to be an influential member of a highly integrated team composed of both technical and non-technical members
  • Ability to work independently and effectively on a team, with demonstrated entrepreneurial drive
  • Excellent cross-group collaboration skills and the ability to influence stakeholders
  • The ability to understand business questions/pain points and alleviate with supporting data
  • Ability to multi-task, deal effectively with ambiguity, change in business requirements, and self-prioritize under pressure
  • Proactive and hard working with strong professional accountability
  • Exemplary verbal and written communication skills; high attention to data quality, detail, and accuracy

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Russell Investments is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all associates and employment applicants regardless of race, religion, ancestry, creed, color, gender (including gender identity which refers to a person's actual or perceived sex, and includes self-image, appearance, behavior or expression, whether or not different from that traditionally associated with a person's biological sex), age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation,  past or present unemployment status , or any other characteristic protected by law.