Sr Specialist, People Data Governance

Website: www.anglogoldashanti.com     

About The Role

The Senior Specialist, People Data Governance, will play a critical role in ensuring our HR data is accurate, secure, compliant, and analytics-ready.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving data challenges, improving processes, building automation, and partnering across HR and IT to create trusted data foundations across a global organization.

If you’re someone who believes data governance shouldn’t be an afterthought — this is your opportunity to build it the right way.

Own the Foundation of HR Data

• Maintain accuracy and integrity of foundational HR data

• Ensure governance policies and standards are followed

• Support data migrations during system upgrades and implementations

• Coordinate governance across HR technology platforms

• Maintain documentation and audit trails
  
  

Lead Compliance & Audit Readiness

• Prepare documentation for internal and external audits

• Support compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)

• Monitor HR system access controls

• Support security protocols to protect sensitive employee data

• Lead governance training related to compliance

Champion Data Quality

• Conduct data audits and quality assessments

• Cleanse and validate HR data across systems (HRIS, ATS, LMS, analytics platforms)

• Troubleshoot data issues and recommend solutions

• Maintain data standards documentation

• Produce compliance and integrity scorecards

Build Automation & Improve Efficiency

• Design automation tools and workflows to improve data validation and reporting

• Leverage Master Data Management (MDM) tools

• Build dashboards to monitor compliance and data quality

• Implement alerts for data exceptions

• Identify opportunities to streamline HR data processes

Deliver Reporting & Insights

• Create dashboards and reports (Power BI/Tableau)

• Deliver compliance scorecards to leadership

• Extract and validate HR data for workforce planning

• Combine people and business data to tell meaningful stories

Governance 

• Deliver training on data governance and compliance standards

• Develop governance documentation and training materials

• Guide HR and system users on best practices

• Partner with HR, IT, and analytics teams on cross-functional initiatives

Experience

• 3–5 years in HR systems, data governance, or data quality

• Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Oracle HCM, ADP)

• Experience supporting SOX/ITGC compliance (preferred)

• Experience in regulated industries (a plus)
  
  

Technical Skills

• Strong Excel skills

• Experience with BI tools (Power BI or Tableau)

• Experience with Master Data Management (MDM) tools

• Familiarity with SQL or relational databases (preferred)

• Experience building automation (Power Automate, Python, RPA tools a plus)

• Understanding of data architecture and integration basics
  
  

Compensation - $93,600 - $126,000 plus bonus

AngloGold Ashanti Limited

Reg No: 1944/017354/06     

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