Analyst, Data Assets

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 130 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Analyst, Data Assets

As the Analyst, Data Assets, you will collaborate with data owners, stewards, and custodians across our organization to ensure that the content, structure, and context of all data assets and related data lineage is clear and understood. You will be at the forefront of managing our organization's data catalogue, overseeing the development, maintenance, and enhancement of a centralized repository for data assets and for developing, maintaining, and enhancing our organization's business glossary. You will also work with various teams to establish and enforce reference data standards and play a key role in managing and maintaining reference data sets critical to the organization's operations. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, highly organized, and will take pride in their documentation. They will have a collaborative attitude and work in a cross-functional team to ensure that data is fully leveraged across the organizations.

This role is based at our temporary location of 20 York Mills Rd, then the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Toronto Corporate Office, reporting to the Manager, Data Assets & Standards.

This role involves interactions with primarily internal stakeholders to include Data Stewards and Custodians across organization, IT, Delivery, Data Engineering and Analytics teams, as well as external vendors.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assist in the implementation of relevant data governance policies and work closely with data stewards to enforce standards for data assets
• Work with data stewards/owners/custodians to curate metadata within Informatica CDGC, ensuring accurate data asset documentation, lineage, and business context so that any updates are constantly reflected within central repository
• Review metadata tags and data classification to enhance discoverability and ensure proper use of data
• Monitor and track usage of data assets to understand and report on patterns and trends
• Generate reports on data asset utilization and identify opportunities to optimize usage
• Manage and maintain reference data sets in informatica as a central source of truth to, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Assist in creating and maintaining documentation for reference data standards and procedures
• Collaborate with data stewards to update and validate reference data regularly and resolve any data issues
• Maintain an up-to-date and comprehensive business glossary that clearly aligns business terms with source data elements
• Collaborate with business units and subject matter experts to define and document business terms
• Support other DG team members, Data Stewards, and Data Owners to resolve data quality and integrity issues.

Key Outcomes

• Complete and up to date data catalogue available for data discovery and data management
• Efficient use of data by stakeholders to minimize burden of data collection and maximize insights development
• Current and complete reference data to ensure data integrity across data assets
• Single unified repository of business terms and KPIs to ensure alignment on definitions used across Four Seasons
• Ensure efficient issue resolution through data asset SME

Who You Are

Business / Analytics Skills

• Works to understand the business need and how the data will be used to drive decisions into action plans that will grow the business
• Effectively navigates through ambiguity and complexity to provide clarity for the team and the requester
• Works well under pressure and can manage multiple tasks under time constraints
• Strong with process management including the development of processes and procedures
• Familiar with agile methodology and comfortable working in an agile environment

Communication Skills

• Works to understand the requester needs when building the upfront story to ensure clarity and actionability
• Listens carefully to understand requirements and seeks clarity as needed
• Provides well-structured reports and documents to convey analysis and insights that are clear, concise and reader-friendly
• Demonstrates understanding of the importance of storytelling by incorporating visual enhancements into presentations
• Strong interpersonal skills and team player

Planning / Organizational Skills

• Demonstrates the ability to organize and work with high volumes of data
• Establishes clear expectations to ensure smooth execution
• Handles multiple demands and conflicting priorities by quickly re-allocating time and resources
• Organizes self and the team in setting and managing priorities
• Demonstrates a relentlessly high standard for attention to detail and holds others to the same
• Delivers on commitments on time and on budget

People Engagement

• Takes the time to acknowledge the efforts and contributions of others
• Works to build relationships with colleagues to both provide and receive the best support

Collaboration Skills

• Works productively in a matrix environment to move projects along and foster a positive team attitude
• Proactively asks for input and ideas from others to demonstrate the power of the team

What You Bring

• Proven experience and understanding of data governance, with a focus on metadata, reference and master data.
• Strong understanding of data protection regulations and compliance requirements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Strong collaboration and engagement skills across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience with data governance tools and technologies such as informatica
• Applied experience in data governance, particularly in data quality management
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality practices
• Familiar with implementation and use various data governance tools and software
• Familiar with DMBOK principles
• Understand of complete data lifecycle and related data governance requirements
• Understanding of GDPR and related legislation
• Ability to manipulate, analyze and transform large datasets to understand trends and patterns
• Working knowledge of cloud computing platforms. MS Azure preferred (Microsoft Synapse, Azure Data factory, Azure Data Lake, PowerBI)
• Proficient in SQL or other programming languages
• Experience with data visualization and dashboarding (Power BI, Tableau)
• Expert in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., data management, information technology, data analytics, business analytics, informatics).

All internal applications must be submitted and approved in Workday by March 16th, 2026.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week at our temporary 20 York Mills Road, Toronto, Ontario location with travel, as needed, to our the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid 

Four Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.