Data Governance and Control Manager

We have a fantastic and interesting opportunity to join Santander as a Data Governance and Control Manager within our Payment Centre of Excellence (PCoE), this team powers payments for Santander UK (Group). This role will be focussed on data governance and forward-looking payments strategy. Payment Strategy and Data is responsible for ensuring that Santander UK is prepared for a rapidly changing payments landscape, the scope covers payments, cards and potential growth areas such as open banking, CBDC and digital identity. It is an exciting time to work in PCoE. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment to deliver outstanding team results. We will provide you with a diverse, energising, and lively environment that focuses on your development. The difference you'll make:

• Ensuring governance of the underlying payments data is important, and challenging due to the number of teams involved across the bank, and the need to influence and lead the change needed
• Leading and management of data governance functions to ensure ongoing compliance with data governance functions including managing a team
• Developing and manage relationships with key internal and external industry stakeholders around data initiatives such as ISO20022 and what that means for out data strategy
• Leading the payments data steward (currently graduate colleagues) in developing capability and management discipline
• Ensuring that we manage and track a multitude of industry engagements and consultations including drafting responses to consultations, engaging internally with stakeholders
• Managing of payments academy, including learning resources specific to payments and importantly management of graduate scheme
  
  These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:
• Previous experience of Project Management within a Payments environment
• Experience of developing processes and procedures in regards to governance management principles
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, comfortable challenging, constructively and influencing stakeholders across all divisions of Santander
• Able to build rapport with project stakeholders and demonstrate influencing skills
• People management experience, as you will be leading and developing a team of people
• Proven diagnostic, problem solving and analytical skills
It would also be nice for you to have:
• Strategic background, experience with consultancy beneficial
• Clear understanding of business and regulatory drivers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Uses all available channels and mechanisms to effectively to communicate to all employees across the bank
• Have experience of working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them
What else you need to know: This role is based in Unity Place - Milton Keynes. We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.