Data Analyst, Specialist

Salary: £120,000 - 160,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Significant experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, or in a similar role, including process and requirements documentation
• Experience producing dashboards, reports, and management information
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical details into clear, accessible summaries
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a regulated environment
• Preferred experience in a large regulated organisation or in Data Governance, Data Quality, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, or Operational Resilience
• Preferred knowledge of GDPR, retention, lineage, or metadata
• Preferred experience with Collibra, Purview, or similar tools
• Preferred technologies: SQL, Python, Collibra, Power BI, Advanced Excel, Purview, and Tableau

Responsibilities:

• Implement governance requirements within an assigned business area under the strategic direction of the Head of EU Data Governance
• Produce data quality dashboards, scorecards, and management information; source, validate, and map Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
• Support data lineage, mapping, process validation, control testing, metadata reviews, and data quality assessments
• Investigate data quality issues, identify root causes, and support sustainable remediation
• Document end-to-end data processes, flows, controls, operating procedures, and governance artefacts to support auditability
• Work with Data Governance Partners to design, document, and embed proportionate controls that mitigate European Data Governance Key Risk Drivers
• Maintain business glossary, data dictionary, CDE, ownership, and metadata records in Collibra and related repositories
• Maintain roadmaps, plans, RAID logs, and status reporting across multiple workstreams
• Facilitate workshops and translate complex concepts into clear business language
• Identify opportunities to simplify or automate monitoring, governance processes, and reporting

Technologies:

• Excel
• Support
• Power BI
• Python
• SQL
• Tableau

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We are Vanguard, an investment company founded in the United States in 1975 on the principle that investment companies should manage funds solely in the interests of their clients. Our mission is to provide value to investors through low-cost, uncomplicated investments. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and aim to build teams where crew members feel valued, included, and empowered to contribute their strengths. This full-time European Data Governance Analyst role is based in Manchester, United Kingdom, and supports operationalising our European Data Governance Framework in collaboration with business, technology, risk, privacy, and compliance teams. The role reports to the EU Head of Data Governance. This is a hybrid position requiring three office days per week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We are not offering visa sponsorship for this position. We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the role early if interest is high. Our hybrid working model is designed to balance flexibility with in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.

last updated 39 week of 2026