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.