Strategic Ledger Transformation Program: Data Proving Lead / Director

Citi•Getzville, NY

About The Position

This involves being keeping appraised of architectural strategy and strategic change in upstream Authoritative Repositories, whist having a strong understanding of Data Governance. The led will be accountable for full management responsibility of people and planning, including duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations. ## Accounting / Financial Statements: Expertly applies comprehensive accounting principles and financial statement analysis within the banking industry to ensure precise financial reporting and strategic ledger integrity. ## Control Mindset: Cultivates a robust and accountable control mindset, demonstrating unyielding integrity and an inquisitive approach to proactively identify, investigate, and reconcile ledger discrepancies, thereby preventing financial errors. ## Strategic Data Vision: Possesses a proven ability to architect and articulate a forward-thinking data strategy, effectively integrating data assets into large-scale transformation initiatives to drive innovation and achieve strategic objectives. ## Data Change Governance: Demonstrates exceptional leadership in establishing and overseeing robust, end-to-end data change governance frameworks, ensuring seamless transitions, meticulous stakeholder alignment, and unwavering adherence to data governance policies across all program lifecycles. ## Data-Driven Decision Making: Instigates and cultivates a proactive, data-driven organizational culture, leveraging advanced analytics, comprehensive reporting, and sophisticated visualization tools to consistently empower informed, timely, and impactful strategic and operational decision-making. Data Quality & Integrity Data Quality Management: Proficiency in establishing and monitoring data quality processes, and metrics for ledger data, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness. Reconciliation Management: Understanding of data reconciliation processes to ensure consistency between the ledger and other systems. Data Validation: Experience in implementing and overseeing data validation check and controls specific to ledger entries, transactions and reconciliations. Capability Evolution: Design, build, and run data profiling and analytics function, with roles, responsibilities, processes, and controls to drive Strategic Ledger data requirements. Conversion: Experience in converting data and loading historical balances to align and with going forward principles. Business Outcomes ## Output Analysis: Deliver comprehensive analysis and insights from data reviews within Extended Trial Balances and financial reporting, ensuring clarity, conciseness, and accuracy to facilitate efficient consumption, review, and formal sign-off by Accounting and Regulatory stakeholders. ## Financial: Translate complex financial discrepancies arising from intricate design principles and strategic architecture modifications into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders, fostering understanding and informed decision-making. ## Data Utilization: Understanding of how ledger data supports analytics, reporting, and business intelligence, ensuring data is fit for purpose. Risk Identification and Change Management: Insights and Optimization: Leverage data profiling and analytics outputs to identify and drive opportunities to optimize data quality and usage. Risk and Issue Management: Report and manage risks and issues through the preparation and analysis of large datasets in the Strategic Ledger and associated applications. Technical Acumen: Experience with Python, Knime, AI/ML, SQL required. Ledger Technologies: Foundational understanding of the underlying technology of the specific ledger implementation. Other: Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders including business users, IT, legal, compliance, audit, and external vendors. Communication & Influence: Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills to articulate data governance concepts, policies, and their importance to all levels of the organization. Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically about data as an asset and its role in achieving organizational goals. Team Leadership: Capability to lead, mentor, and develop a team of data governance professionals. Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex data governance challenges. Issue Resolution: Leads the identification and drive resolution of issues, including those outside established programs of work. Delivery: Drives adherence to program processes, procedures, methods, and standards for program delivery and leverage across the program. Governance: Directs the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including senior management, on a timely basis. Governance: Ensures all stakeholders are identified and included in scope definition activities, understand the program schedule and key milestones, and receive schedule status regularly. In depth knowledge of banking products/systems and how own sub-function contributes to achieving the objectives of the function. Experience leading global data teams for finance transformation programs is required. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Frequently involved with a variety of broad based and complex issues requiring conceptual thinking. Should demonstrate a commitment to quality and attention to detail. Knowledge of Data analytics, Data processes and Operating Models. Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

Requirements

Experience with Python, Knime, AI/ML, SQL required
Foundational understanding of the underlying technology of the specific ledger implementation
Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders including business users, IT, legal, compliance, audit, and external vendors
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills to articulate data governance concepts, policies, and their importance to all levels of the organization
Ability to think strategically about data as an asset and its role in achieving organizational goals
Capability to lead, mentor, and develop a team of data governance professionals
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex data governance challenges
In depth knowledge of banking products/systems and how own sub-function contributes to achieving the objectives of the function
Experience leading global data teams for finance transformation programs is required
Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level
Frequently involved with a variety of broad based and complex issues requiring conceptual thinking
Should demonstrate a commitment to quality and attention to detail
Knowledge of Data analytics, Data processes and Operating Models
Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

Responsibilities

Keeping appraised of architectural strategy and strategic change in upstream Authoritative Repositories
Accountable for full management responsibility of people and planning, including duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations
Expertly applies comprehensive accounting principles and financial statement analysis within the banking industry to ensure precise financial reporting and strategic ledger integrity
Cultivates a robust and accountable control mindset, demonstrating unyielding integrity and an inquisitive approach to proactively identify, investigate, and reconcile ledger discrepancies, thereby preventing financial errors
Possesses a proven ability to architect and articulate a forward-thinking data strategy, effectively integrating data assets into large-scale transformation initiatives to drive innovation and achieve strategic objectives
Demonstrates exceptional leadership in establishing and overseeing robust, end-to-end data change governance frameworks, ensuring seamless transitions, meticulous stakeholder alignment, and unwavering adherence to data governance policies across all program lifecycles
Instigates and cultivates a proactive, data-driven organizational culture, leveraging advanced analytics, comprehensive reporting, and sophisticated visualization tools to consistently empower informed, timely, and impactful strategic and operational decision-making
Proficiency in establishing and monitoring data quality processes, and metrics for ledger data, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness
Understanding of data reconciliation processes to ensure consistency between the ledger and other systems
Experience in implementing and overseeing data validation check and controls specific to ledger entries, transactions and reconciliations
Design, build, and run data profiling and analytics function, with roles, responsibilities, processes, and controls to drive Strategic Ledger data requirements
Experience in converting data and loading historical balances to align and with going forward principles
Deliver comprehensive analysis and insights from data reviews within Extended Trial Balances and financial reporting, ensuring clarity, conciseness, and accuracy to facilitate efficient consumption, review, and formal sign-off by Accounting and Regulatory stakeholders
Translate complex financial discrepancies arising from intricate design principles and strategic architecture modifications into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders, fostering understanding and informed decision-making
Understanding of how ledger data supports analytics, reporting, and business intelligence, ensuring data is fit for purpose
Leverage data profiling and analytics outputs to identify and drive opportunities to optimize data quality and usage
Report and manage risks and issues through the preparation and analysis of large datasets in the Strategic Ledger and associated applications
Leads the identification and drive resolution of issues, including those outside established programs of work
Drives adherence to program processes, procedures, methods, and standards for program delivery and leverage across the program
Directs the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including senior management, on a timely basis
Ensures all stakeholders are identified and included in scope definition activities, understand the program schedule and key milestones, and receive schedule status regularly