Data Governance & Controls Consultant - Banking

Data Governance & Controls Consultant - Banking

We are looking for an experienced Data Governance and Controls Consultant to support a mortgage provider with an 8-week discovery engagement.

The role will assess the current data governance and controls environment across core mortgage, data, insight and credit-modelling systems. The consultant will identify gaps, assess risks and produce a prioritised remediation plan.

Key responsibilities

• Review data governance and control frameworks.

• Assess data quality, lineage, privacy and records management.

• Review data completeness, accuracy and reconciliation controls.

• Investigate schemas, databases and data flows.

• Assess data movement into downstream reporting and credit-modelling systems.

• Identify key risks, control gaps and remediation priorities.

• Produce a clear findings and recommendations pack.

Essential experience

• Strong data governance and data controls experience.

• At least 3-4 similar discovery or review engagements.

• Hands-on experience with data quality, lineage, reconciliation and control design.

• Financial services experience.

• Ability to work across business, technology, risk and compliance teams.

• Strong stakeholder management and report-writing skills.

Desirable

• Mortgage, lending or credit experience.

• Experience with legacy or Microsoft-based environments.

• Experience shaping remediation roadmaps.

There may be a follow-on implementation phase, subject to client approval.