Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.
Citi’s Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.
The Data Owner Sr Lead Analyst is a senior level professional responsible for delivering subject matter and industry expertise for Data for a single product, function, process, or country, ensuring that is compliant to Regulations, Laws, and Citi Policies, Standards & Procedures to reduce and manage Citi’s data risk Accountable for significant direct business and authoritative advice. Necessitate a degree of responsibility over Data strategy. They are responsible for promoting data as an asset and influencing culture change to make the organization increasingly more data driven.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of combined experience in banking and financial services industry, information technology and/or data governance.
• Experience with data management processes and tools and applications, including process mapping and lineage toolsets.
• Strong knowledge of structured/unstructured databases, data modeling, data management, rapid / iterative development methodologies and data governance tools.
• Understanding of data governance issues, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry information affecting the business environment.
• Demonstrated relationship management and advisory skills with sponsors, key stakeholders, partners and team members in both Business and Technology forums.
• Excellent presentation skills, business and technical writing, and verbal communication skills to support decision-making and actions
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills to recognize and comprehend complex data flow and designs.
• Regularly provided timely action-focused status updates to management and stakeholders
• Self-motivated and able to dynamically determine priorities
• Actively managed various aspects of data initiatives including analysis, planning, execution, and day-to-day production management.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
  This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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MOST RELEVANT SKILLS

Constructive Debate, Data Analysis, Data Lineage, Data Management, Data Quality, Management Reporting, Policy and Procedure, Program Management, Referral and Escalation, Risk Identification and Assessment.
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OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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• Provide data owner advice and guidance to the end-to-end data flow, including all upstream areas that create and/or consume Authoritative Data Sources to ensure they adopt new policy/standards, data models, and appropriate infrastructure.
• Understands the business/function processes to provide insights into business end-to end data flows and the critical data elements that flow across systems.
• Support Data Stewards to drive end-to-end management and consistent usage to maximize the trustworthiness in data. Confer with Data Quality team on options to resolve issues.
• Lead assessment of data requirements, data standards and data process risk, including coordinating with the business in identifying critical data, defining standards and quality expectations, and prioritize remediation of data issues.
• Align key data capabilities including metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, business process maps, and training materials with the data and system process flows.
• Support Data Concerns remediation, including dispositioning and monitoring fixes (Data defects, Data issues). Review, remediate, report, and monitor Data Quality issues through Citi’s corresponding Data/Issue management process.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify, review and recommend and/or processes and technologies improvements that support successful deployment of Data obligations.
• Coordinate and support reviews of issues / challenges / risks by factoring input from partners and diverse points of view.
• Escalate potential barriers to timely execution before they impact the delivery, communicate potential risks and plans to mitigate issues and concerns.
• Provide status updates on issues, challenges, risks and solutions to Data Owner management team and technology data teams in a succinct manner to drive decision-making and actions.
• Monitor metrics and key performance indicators associated with Data Quality and Controls.
• Facilitate execution on remediation of Data Concerns, including dispositioning and monitoring fixes (Data defects, Data issues).
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm’s reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.