Data Integration Sr Lead Analyst – SVP

Data Integration Sr Lead Analyst – SVP

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Capital Markets, Banking, or Finance
• Demonstrates consistent track record of having worked as a Technology BA/Program or Project Manager on global, strategic, cross-functional, and data intensive projects
• Stakeholder, people and project management experience required
• Strong knowledge of financial products, risk management, and regulatory reporting
• Experienced and adept at working with remote and global teams
• Strong business analysis competency with hands on experience in data analysis and lineage
• Communicates effectively, develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Collaborates effectively by building partnerships and working well with others to meet shared objectives
• Ability to gain confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity
• Strong negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills across a variety of stakeholders up to Director/MD levels
• Self-driven, proactive, and should be able to work independently or with limited supervision
• Demonstrates ability to balance between understanding the ‘big picture’ while paying close attention to detail
• Organizational savvy: understands systems, management processes, knows where to go for information and how to interpret them
• Working knowledge of Citi’s Data Governance Policy or Operating Model preferred

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of the transformation efforts for Citi data governance policy alignment and data strategy for critical Enterprise Risk Management regulatory, risk and business decisioning reports with specific focus on BCBS 239 reports
• Partner with data consumers to agree on the scope of report data requirements, critical data elements, data quality challenges, and success criteria of the effort
• Analyze data lineage documentation and create or support the creation of data and system flow documentation and process maps
• Support the updates for key data capabilities including metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, business process maps, and training materials with the data and system process flows
• Partner with business data owners required to ensure maintenance of key artifacts and overall data quality improvements
• Consolidate disparate information about the data, as well as ensure a sustainable understanding of how data flows through operational and analytic platforms and assist Data owner in institutionalizing an enhanced understanding of information assets at fine grain, coarse grain, and aggregate level
• Identify data quality ‘hot spots’ or points of control breaks. Determine strategies to improve data quality controls and monitoring routines to de-risk points of data quality vulnerabilities using EDO approved tools and solutions
• Institute and manage change management processes related to data and system flow documentation and related data governance procedures
• Identify and support opportunities continuously to streamline and simplify the execution of data transformation initiatives and data capabilities
• Be a trusted and informed advisor/partner to regional teams and lines of business staff members
• Prepare and present status updates and solutions to stakeholders, business partners, and technology teams in a succinct manner to drive decisions and actions
• Drive meetings and working sessions to solve issues, challenges, and risks by factoring input from business and technology partners and diverse points of view
• Provides user and operational support including documentation of business/ data requirements using Agile methodologies and Sprint iterative development
• Interpret data and analyzing results to identify trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Understand current data handling processes and business requirements to help determine new and innovative ways to provide end-to-end data flow solutions
• Address potential barriers to timely execution before they impact the delivery, communicate potential risks and plans to mitigate issues and concerns
• Advise or coach to new or junior team members and work as a team member to achieve business objectives, performing other duties and functions as assigned
• Provide guidance and collaborate with remote teams in partnership to achieve program goals
• Project Management – Track, execute, and report against the Use Case Plan / Business Critical milestone, deliverables, and activities
• Support the transformation leads for development of communication materials and presentations for senior management, including Data councils, Operating Committee, EMT members or other key stakeholders as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Enterprise Risk Management/FRM certification preferred
• Working knowledge of Citi’s Data Governance Policy or Operating Model preferred
• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree, CFA/FRM preferred