AVP - FP&A Product Analyst - Data Infrastructure - Bank

AVP - FP&A - Product Analyst - Data Infrastructure - Global Bank

Product Analyst for data infrastructure

Responsibilities:

- Drive project reviews to ensure alignment with the Data Strategy. This will include quickly learning details of multiple business processes especially concerning data usage and movement. This also includes the ability to think laterally and flexibly to understand business needs and opportunities as compared to current state and discuss/brainstorm these situations with business and technology partners. Must be able to break down complex problems, question assumptions and be comfortable making high impact decisions with limited information and some degree of uncertainty.

- Ensure compliance with Data Management Policy. Drive acceptance of data standards and policies in each assigned product and region

- Responsible for comprehensive Data Governance. Define policies, procedures, and processes for cleaning, mastering, governing, and documenting data for the assigned product in a region.

- Review all data assets to identify Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and socialize these with the wider organization. Implement controls, identify Trusted Sources, provide monitoring and build/review scorecards. Monitor key data management and governance metrics to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the critical data within their domain(s).

- Profile the data and define appropriate data quality rules especially for critical attributes to ensure reliable data

- Accountable to ensure that all data quality issues are addressed reliably and in a timely fashion as per processes. Participate in root cause analysis, coordinate with stakeholders, facilitate communication across Business, Operations and Technology and assume responsibility for end to end resolution

- Responsible for identifying and managing trusted sources of data sets while guiding users and application development to use them

- Keep abreast of data standards from the chief data office (CDO) and disseminate these in the GCB FP&A organization and ensure adherence. Provide feedback back to the CDO from asset class specific experiences and challenges.

- Define, maintain and advise relevant stakeholders as appropriate on Data Governance related matters.

- Provide recommendations and supporting documentation for new or proposed data standards, business rules and policy

- Provide advice on various projects and initiatives to ensure that any data related changes and dependencies are identified, communicated and managed to ensure adherence with the Data Governance established standards.

- Document data/system lineage and data tracing through all - hops- for each business process and coordinate with Technology to create corresponding Lineage toolset. Manage technical metadata requirements and inputs related to Business CDEs and coordinate Lineage tasks and test activities between Business, Operations and Technology. Manage all Business Glossaries

- Help identify the need for enterprise-level data standards based on strategic business objectives and the evolution of enterprise-level capabilities and analytical requirements

- Collaborate across the organization to ensure consistent and effective execution of data governance and management principles across FP&A analytical systems and data domains.

- Drive alignment of Business/Operational Processes with firm wide Risk and Controls initiatives

- Develop deep understanding of the Risk and Regulatory programs in GCB FP&A including Cross Border Clearances. Steer the Data programs and Application Development to ensure compliance with all Risk and Regulatory programs

Qualification : 

- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Information Systems, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related quantitative discipline, CA/MBA

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with attention to detail. Willingness to ask questions and ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts and requirements, related to product and process knowledge.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate discussions, collaborate with participants across the end-to-end process and present work progress and results.

- Ability to work independently and take ownership of various parts of a project/initiative, and following through until resolution.

- Ready to take initiative and ability to adapt to changing requirements and project demands.

- Flexible, creative with desire to grow within the team and assigned project responsibilities.

- 8-12 years of experience in Financial Services.

- Background in Finance, Risk or Operations and product knowledge preferred.

- Advanced MS Office skills; Excel, Access, Project, Visio, Power Point, Word

- Background in Finance, Risk or Operations and product knowledge preferred.

Knowledge of Agile methodology and experience in projects preferred