Policy and Foundational Data Governance Analyst

Overview

Policy and Foundational Data Governance Analyst role at U.S. Bancorp India, supporting the Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) function with control assessment, policy maintenance, governance oversight and audit readiness in a regulated banking environment.

What you'll do

• Perform control design assessments, operating effectiveness reviews, and quality assurance testing, documenting procedures, evidence, results, and conclusions so they can be independently understood and reproduced.
• Support the design and enhancement of governance processes and controls, including clearly defined ownership, frequency, evidence, escalation, and approval requirements.
• Evaluate control mapping across business, data, and technology processes, including alignment to relevant IT controls and identification of gaps or duplication.
• Support periodic refreshes of EDG policies, standards, procedures, and supporting guidance, and assess changes for consistency, clarity, and operational impact.
• Execute governance maturity assessments, validate supporting evidence, identify themes and gaps, and develop clear recommendations for accountable stakeholders.
• Support governance and oversight of the Key Reports program, including inventory, risk assessment, control alignment, issue identification, and reporting.
• Perform ADS (Authoritative Data Sources) review and risk assessment.
• Perform risk-based quality assurance reviews across EDG processes and challenge whether conclusions are adequately supported, consistently applied, and audit-ready.
• Partner with Business Lines, technology teams, control partners, and other stakeholders to resolve governance questions, clarify requirements, and drive timely completion of deliverables.
• Prepare accurate, concise EDG reporting and executive-ready updates that highlight status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and required actions.
• Support internal assessments, audit and regulatory examinations, including evidence coordination, response development, issue analysis, and remediation validation.
• Maintain procedures, templates, job aids, and records of decision that translate policy requirements into clear, executable, and testable expectations.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Typically 6-9 years of total experience.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, risk management, compliance, audit, internal controls, and issue management concepts.
• Ability to understand Business Line operations, products and services, systems, data flows, reporting processes, and associated risks and controls.
• Knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, regulatory expectations, and risk trends relevant to financial services and data governance.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably banking or financial markets.
• Strong sense of ownership, ability to work autonomously, prioritize based on tactical and strategic objectives and escalate as needed.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, process facilitation, and project management skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive work to completion without relying on direct authority.
• Strong relationship-building, consultation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to deliver constructive credible challenge.
• Effective presentation, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Technical aptitude and experience with SharePoint, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps and/or LEAP, and data governance or data platforms such as Collibra, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• Training and Communications background focusing on diverse set of activities, channels and audiences.

Details

• Location: Chennai, India.
• Work mode: 5 days, work from office.
• Shift timings: Standard Time 2:30 PM - 10:30 PM IST; Daylight Savings Time 1:30 PM - 9:30 PM IST.