Data Governance Consultant/Records Retention/Capital Markets
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Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a Data Architecture Consultant – Senior. This position involves supporting the design and oversight of the organization’s Records Retention Program, ensuring compliance with regulatory, legal, and internal policies related to the creation, retention, and disposition of business records. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to maintain accurate record inventories, apply retention schedules, and support regulatory inquiries.
Responsibilities
- Interpret and apply records retention policies, regulatory requirements, and corporate retention schedules across business units
- Ensure compliance with data risk and retention directives, including classification, storage, retention, and deletion of records
- Maintain governance oversight in partnership with Data & Analytics, Legal, Compliance, and Operational Risk teams
- Support the ongoing maintenance and improvement of the Records Management Program, including documentation, procedures, and control monitoring
- Conduct annual or periodic record retention inventory reviews and escalate issues as needed
- Collaborate with business units to clarify roles and responsibilities related to record management
- Provide guidance on record identification, categorization, and retention schedule application
- Facilitate training and onboarding related to retention policies and program updates
- Partner with technology teams to implement retention schedules and deletion requirements in systems and data lifecycle management
- Support system migrations and technology changes impacting recordkeeping requirements
- Contribute to metadata standards, record inventories, and logical groupings of retained records
- Participate in retention risk monitoring, control testing, and reporting processes
- Identify and report retention risks, over/under retention issues, or recordkeeping failures
- Recommend process improvements and risk mitigation strategies
Desired Skill-Set
- 5-8+ years experience in records management, information governance, compliance, or data governance within a regulated environment (financial services preferred)
- Proven experience developing and implementing a Records Management program in a large organization
- Strong understanding of records management principles and data lifecycle management
- Experience working with retention schedules, record inventories, archival systems, and deletion processes
- Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and translate them into operational procedures
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail
- Comfortable working within a matrixed environment with cross-functional teams
Nice To Have
- Experience working in top-tier banking institutions or capital markets exposure
- Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Library Sciences, Business, Data Governance, or related field
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