247 Data Governance Manager jobs in Malaysia

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• Develop and implement the finance data governance framework and roadmap for the overall Finance organization.
• Establish guidelines and protocols that govern the financial data to ensure that controls are enforced in all processes to ensure compliance and meet business needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve data-related issues and inquiries.
• Independently lead or manage data-related projects/initiatives.
• Address other complex and ambiguous data issues raised by stakeholders through a systematic approach.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or related fields; Master’s degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience across multiple business lines.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, especially with professional style in slides presentations.
• Minimum 2 years of project management experience with proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding of the end-to-end process for generating management reports.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Executive communication skills with experience working in a cross-cultural environment.
• Fluency in English.

• Experience with SAP, BPC, or visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Prior management consulting experience or involvement in large-scale data governance programs.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma or project management.
• Familiarity with data management technologies, processes, and design principles.
• Experience with master data/metadata/reference management, data quality management, or data stewardship tools.

• An innovative and open work environment in a leading global tech company.
• Flat organizational structure with fast decision-making processes.
• Diverse international team.
• Personalized mentoring for career growth and development.
• Competitive compensation package.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Business Development and Sales

• IT Services and IT Consulting

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the finance data governance framework and roadmap for the overall Finance organization.
• Establish guidelines and protocols that govern the financial data to ensure that controls are enforced in all processes to ensure compliance and meet business needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve data-related issues and inquiries.
• Independently lead or manage data-related projects/initiatives.
• Address other complex and ambiguous data issues raised by stakeholders through a systematic approach.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, or related fields; Master's degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience across multiple business lines.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, especially with professional style in slides presentations.
• Minimum 2 years of project management experience with proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding of the end-to-end process for generating management reports.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities.
• Executive communication skills with experience working in a cross-cultural environment.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP, BPC, or visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
• Prior management consulting experience or involvement in large-scale data governance programs.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma or project management.
• Familiarity with data management technologies, processes, and design principles.
• Experience with master data/metadata/reference management, data quality management, or data stewardship tools.

What We Offer:

• An innovative and open work environment in a leading global tech company.
• Flat organizational structure with fast decision-making processes.
• Diverse international team.
• Personalized mentoring for career growth and development.
• Competitive compensation package.

Requirements

Job Purpose

• An experienced Data Governance Manager to lead our data governance initiatives. The successful candidate will manage a team and will be responsible for defining and executing data privacy, data quality, and data governance frameworks and policies. This role is crucial in ensuring that our data assets are managed effectively and used responsibly.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and implement data governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and standards.
• Oversee data quality initiatives to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
• Lead and manage a team of data governance professionals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote data governance best practices.
• Monitor and report on data governance metrics and KPIs.
• Provide training and support to staff on data governance and data management practices.
• Identify and mitigate data-related risks.

Education/ Professional Qualification & Professional Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
• Proven experience in data governance, data quality, and data privacy.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and best practices.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with data governance tools and technologies.
• Minimum of 4 years relevant Data Governance and People Manager Experience required:
• Certification in data governance or data management (e.g., CDMP, DGSP).
• Knowledge of relevant data privacy laws and regulations (e.g., PDPA)

As a Senior Associate / Manager - Data Governance, you will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, secure, and high-quality data management across the organisation. You will achieve this by orchestrating policies, processes, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders, even without direct control over all resources.

Reporting directly to the Chief Data Officer, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to promote adherence to internal policies and local statutory requirements, while facilitating responsible data usage across business lines.

• Demonstrate up-to-date knowledge of data governance theory, standard methodology and practical considerations (ability to focus on “minimum viable governance”).
• Work cross-functionally to develop, implement, and continuously improve firm-wide data management processes, including collaboration with Legal and risk management, IT security, Business units, Academy, and Digital teams.
• Periodic engagement with global SMEs to align Network Data Policy (NDP) requirements, ensuring relevant information is cascaded to Data Committee members for information or further action.
• Connect with other territories and global SMEs to understand data governance best practices for adoption locally.
• Support Chief Data Officer on key initiatives, issues tracking and improvement plans including preparing relevant presentation materials.

Qualifications & experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, IT, or a related field.
• 5 - 6 years’ experience in data governance, data management or related areas.
• Experience in professional services or regulated industries is an advantage.
• Certification in data governance (e.g., CDMP, DCAM) or data privacy (e.g., CIPP/A) is preferred.

Core skills

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM).
• Proficiency in data management principles, including data quality, metadata, stewardship, and classification.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. PDPA, GDPR etc).
• Knowledge of data privacy, ethical AI, and information security controls.

Other skills

• Experience working with cross-functional teams including risk, legal, digital, IT security and business units.
• Ability to influence without authority and navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Understanding of data governance tools (e.g. Microsoft Purview), data lineage, data anonymization, data transformation tools preferred.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
• Self-starter with high attention to detail and commitment to compliance and data ethics.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Information Technology, Management, and General Business

• IT Services and IT Consulting, Business Consulting and Services, and Professional Services

Job Summary

As Data Governance Specialist - Regulatory Compliance Manager, you will manage and safeguard data assets within the data governance framework. You will focus on operationalization of Data Governance framework with key focus on the maintaining data quality, usage and compliance, ensuring that data lineage and governance policies are upheld. You will collaborate with data stewards across various domains to design and enforce data quality rules and support the operationalization of data governance processes.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Implement data stewardship principles that align with the data governance framework and policies.
2. Work with various business units/Data Stewards to create and enforce data classification, validation processes and data quality rules/solutions and assist in addressing issues across various domains, including risk, finance, AML/KYC and customer data.
3. Document and maintain data governance processes and reporting mechanisms.
4. Support data lineage activities to ensure data traceability and integrity.
5. Assist the designing, implementing and adopting of data governance tools such as Collibra.
6. Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, including BCBS 239, in all data governance activities.
7. Promote best practices in data governance and encourage a data quality and stewardship.
8. Provide training and support to Data Stewards and stakeholders on data governance practices.

Job Requirements:

1. Bachelor's/University Degree.
2. Professional certification in data governance (e.g., CDMP, Collibra, DGSP, CIMP), risk management (e.g., GARP, PRIMIA) are a plus.
3. 4 to 6 years' experience in data-related disciplines (e.g., Data Governance, Data Management, Regulatory Reporting, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, ETL, or Data Architecture).
4. Proven experience in data stewardship and governance within the banking sector.
5. Ability to design and implement data quality rules and resolve data issues across various domains, including solid knowledge and practical implementation experience in regulatory compliance requirements.
6. Strong understanding of regulatory requirements for a bank, including regulatory reporting, BCBS 239.
7. Hands-on experience with data governance tools, particularly Collibra, and knowledge of other DG tools (e.g., Alation, Informatica, etc.) and automation tools (e.g., Alteryx, etc.)
8. Excellent documentation and process management skills, collaborative mindset, and strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively with diverse teams.
9. Having experience in banks or consulting firms advising banking clients on implementing data governance frameworks and tools, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and business objectives, and involving practical work is valuable.
10. Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead the implementation of metadata management practices across APAC in alignment with global standards.
2. Manage metadata policies, processes, and ownership models (including stewardship).
3. Operationalize critical/ key data elements, business glossaries, and metadata repositories to support risk management, regulatory reporting, and analytics use cases.
4. Conduct gap assessments of metadata for critical regulatory reports (e.g., BCBS 239, IFRS 9, MAS reports, other regional regulatory requirements).
5. Colibra Metadata Management.
6. Act as regional metadata lead for the Collibra tool.
7. Configure and manage metadata domains, business glossaries, assets, and domains within Collibra.
8. Build workflows to review, approve, and certify metadata definitions and mappings.
9. Implement metadata-driven lineage views to support data traceability for regulatory reports (such as Liquidity).
10. Build and manage business and technical data lineage views across source systems, data lake/ data warehouses, and reporting layers.
11. Ensure metadata traceability for high-risk regulatory reports, analytics use cases using a combination of automation and SME validation.
12. Work closely with source system owners, reporting teams, and tool owners to ensure end-to-end KDE coverage.
13. Collaborate with data stewards and reporting teams to define metadata for new and existing regulatory reports and specific use cases.
14. Lead metadata onboarding sessions, workshops, and training across APAC.
15. Support metadata requirements, ensuring traceability of key data fields.
16. Partner with tooling teams to integrate Collibra with data lake/ data warehouses, downstream applications (e.g. Vermeg, Moody's), and other regulatory tools for metadata ingestion.
17. Enable metadata APIs and automation scripts to streamline the ingestion and maintenance of metadata.
18. Collaborate with DQ & other relevant teams to ensure metadata alignment across platforms.

Position Specifications:

1. Bachelor's/ University degree in Data Management, Computer Science, or related field
2. Certifications such as Collibra, CDMP or CIMP are highly desirable.
3. 4 to 7+ years of experience in data governance mainly in the metadata roles in banking industry.
4. Proven experience with regulatory data governance initiatives (BCBS 239, IFRS9, MAS, APRA, BoT etc.).
5. Strong understanding of data lifecycle, business glossaries, and regulatory reporting elements in banking domain.
6. 3+ years of hands-on experience with Collibra, specifically in metadata models, lineage views, glossaries, and workflows.
7. Familiarity with Collibra APIs and metadata ingestion strategies from data lakes and regulatory solutions.
8. Experience building data lineage across systems (Azure, Vermeg, Moody's, MIS platforms).
9. SQL or Alteryx experience for metadata reconciliation and lineage stiching is a plus.
10. Excellent stakeholder engagement skills; experience working with reporting, risk, and compliance teams.
11. Strong documentation skills to maintain metadata dictionaries and lineage maps.
12. Ability to simplify metadata complexity for business uers.

We are a startup based in Singapore and Malaysia, where we specialize in boosting revenue by generating quality leads for SMEs & Startups, with AI Services Lead Gen Solution.

The main internship objective is to curate & make sense of diverse data sources using manual & automation and ensure data quality for the data set up of our AI solution, which uses web-based applications, AI agents, data, etc., to uplift productivity of our Go-to-Market (GTM) executives:

1. Take lead, own and assist the GTM Ops engineer to generate enriched data sets (via tools or manual means) for cold outreach by GTM specialist.

2. Any other engineering related work to unblock overall AI Sales Doctor's business.

Job Types: Internship, Student job

Contract length: 3 to 12 months

Pay: RM1, RM1,200.00 per month

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Opportunities for promotion
• Professional development