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Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We're the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That's why we're on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we're just getting started. We're building diverse and inclusive teams around the world - because that's how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

Checkout.com is looking for a Data Governance Specialist to support and manage all group-wide data governance activities.You will lead and manage all organization-wide data governance activities and will have responsibility for improving the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets! You will have the opportunity to ensure adherence to our enterprise data governance framework for data policies, standards and practices, to achieve the required level of consistency and compliance.

How you'll make an impact?

Rolling out our enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through changes in standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, and related tools
Supporting communication between Data Domains and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for governing our data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood
Maturing and maintaining the inventory (data catalog) of the enterprise data maps, including authoritative systems, and owners
Defining indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensuring compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements.
Partnering with and educating diverse teams across technology and the business to embed good data governance practices into key processes
Supporting and contributing to security and data compliance initiatives.

Qualifications

What we're looking for:

Practical knowledge of data governance and management lifecycle, methodologies, techniques, tools and best practice
Operational experience of developing, implementing and maintaining a data governance framework, ideally in a technology or finance environment
Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
Have been responsible for provision of tangible, implementable guidance in areas such as data management, data access, metadata management and data quality
Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement.
Experience of having designed and delivered awareness and training to support understanding and adoption of key concepts and practices.

Additional Information

Apply without meeting all requirements statement

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.

Our clients come from all over the world - and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we'll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We'd love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us.

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We'll be happy to support you.

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