Data Quality Governance Specialist at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose:

This role intends to ensure that entities data is accurate, valid, complete and conforms to the relevant data quality standards and adheres to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), for Health and  branching to the other Discovery businesses. This role is accountable for data quality governance across the Group, access governance and data privacy support,by serving as the link between Risk, Systems, Compliance, Business and Data Integrity.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Report on predefined data quality governance and metrics to business, manager and the Group Information as well as the  Privacy officer on a monthly basis.

• This role will be extended to Health Provider Admin, Workpool and Access Centre teams, financial consultant entities and staff entities as well as support for Data Privacy in relation to data analysis, root cause analysis and data quality rules where necessary.

• Analyse and review data quality governance-related policies, using supporting frameworks and tools, root cause analysis . Identify gaps in Discovery’s data  and make recommendations for potential process changes within business. Reporting on business adherance to data quality governance rules and policies.

• Refine and optimize data processes when it comes to specific data rules and business processes.

• Provide business with the relevant data extracts, dashboards and insights to fix the data using PL/SQL and IBM Infoshpere. Ensuring that the relavent fixes are done by the relevant business area.

• Attending and presenting at weekly/monthly data governance, data privacy forums and technical data governance working groups and provide input as the subject matter expert for entity data.

• Chair the Group Data Quality Governance forum as well as all business working groups related to group data quality governance. Attend Fraud Forum  and drive a culture of data quality throughout the Discovery group.

• Continuously monitor the entities data set, identify anomalies and missing data through the relevant data analysis processes.

• Use entity cross company analytics, vaccine data and data from third party vendors to provide business with the most recent data on its entities. Be the Data Steward and subject matter expert for entity data. Know the rules behind entity creation and ensure all areas adhere to these rules.

• Work with CareConnect to create a unified member data record on the Health Information Exchange with the relevant health founding members such as Netcare and Mediclinic.

• Assist the Deputy Information Officer of Discovery Health to investigate privacy incidents and breaches.

• Calculating charge outs and doing ABC costing models for work done for other companies.

Essential Qualifications / Education:

• Matric

• Degree in an analytics field such as Business Analysis, Data Science, Maths, Statistics or Economics

• SQL certification

Advantageous Education / Qualifications:

• Honours Degree in an analytics field such as Business Analysis, Data Science, Maths, Statistics or Economics

• Six Sigma Green Belt

• Master Data Quality Management certification

• R Certification

Essential knowledge:

• Advanced SQL

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint

• Data analysis synthesis

• Understanding of entities, provider and access governance systems

• Understanding data quality and data governance concepts

Advantagous knowledge

• Advanced Power BI

• SharePoint

• Paradigm

• IBM Infosphere

Essential Experience:

• 2 years Data Analyst experience

• 3 years Project management experience

• 1 year Process design and improvement experience

Advantageous Experience:

• Prior data quality governance experience

• Prior leadership experience

• Experience in Data Integrity, Privacy and data governance

• Change Management experience

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.