What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager - Data Governance & Management position at American Express Company?
How will you make an impact in this role?
As part of the Financial Reporting Quality Assurance Organization (FRQA) within Corporate Controllership, this role is responsible from bringing and managing data under governance for Finance. Finance Data Governance (FDG) team is leading the effort of defining the future roadmap for data governance within Finance and ensure ensuring that trusted information is used for critical processes, decision making, and accounting across various finance processes.
As a Finance Data Governance Senior manager, you will be part of a growing team of data management professionals focused on providing world-class data management and data governance solutions. You will partner closely with Finance Technology transformation team, Enterprise Data Management, Controllership, Risk, and other teams to drive data governance and data quality within Finance. The FDG Senior Manager is a collaborator, a well-organized, action-oriented individual with exceptional leadership and time management skills, confident in presenting, facilitating, and building a network of strong relationships across our organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Bring Finance Data under Governance in compliance with the Enterprise Data Governance Policy ensuring the appropriate accountability model and processes for data asset management, metadata management, data quality, data lineage, and issue resolution.
Deliver data quality scorecards, dashboards, analytical reports, and attestation packages for all processes in scope.
Provide insight into the root-cause-analysis of data quality issues and assist in remediation of Audit and Regulatory feedback.
Recommend strategic improvements to data assessment process and making necessary enhancements to data analytical and data quality tools.
Continue to support our current Regulatory Reporting needs via existing platforms working with our upstream data providers, downstream business partners, as well as technologies.
Serve as a liaison between Technology teams, application teams and product teams to drive Data Governance requirements and priorities.
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years of experience in Data Management space and 5+ years of work experience in Finance and Controllership strongly preferred.
Ability to lead and manage Data Analytics and BI projects is strongly desired.
Strong relationship skills and communication is essential as this manager will partner extensively with Business process owners, Technologies, and Enterprise Data Governance.
Demonstrated understanding of metadata practices such as data lineage, data dictionaries, business glossaries, Data Quality rules, source system inventories, etc.
Demonstrated working knowledge of Agile methodology and delivery concepts or other project management methodologies including SDLC.
Self-motivated and proactive, ability to manage multiple assignments and projects concurrently.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to collect business requirements and use them to guide implementation of a technical solution.
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience as a People leader is strongly preferred.
Prior experience of defining and implementing data governance and data quality programs, is strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of Data Lineage and Data Catalog tools like Manta and Collibra.
Strong excel and other technical skills, prior experience with SQL is a strong plus.
Salary : $90,000 - $165,000