What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Specialist, People Data Governance position at AngloGold Ashanti North America?
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
AngloGold Ashanti Limited
Reg No: 1944/017354/06
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
AngloGold Ashanti Limited
Reg No: 1944/017354/06
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT
AngloGold Ashanti North America Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.