Data Quality Specialist - Price Risk, Markets, Reporting

Contractual | 11+ Months |
New York, NY, New York, USA
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Title: Data Quality Specialist - Price Risk, Markets, Reporting
Location: NYC, NY -  hybrid, 3 days onsite
Duration: 11+ Months

Job Description:

  • Price Risk Data Quality Issue Management
  • Must have strong data quality experience, control understanding, front office experience, and market experience.
  • Tableau is a strong plus
  • This new role is part of the Markets Credit and Price Risk Execution team supporting the Price Risk data quality issue management and strategic data initiatives. ‘Price Risk’ includes all aspects of market risk management across First Line and Second Line functions, and the initiative sets out to improve and enhance risk management controls and processes across Markets businesses and CTI. Price Risk Execution is a first-line cross-asset risk and control function, which operates or facilitates controls to manage the operational risk, valuation risk and governance components of managing quality of Price Risk.
  • The team works closely with Global Markets Trading Businesses, In-Business Risk (IBR), Finance, and 2LoD in setting standards and procedures, leading governance, and building and managing controls across processes and activities in the scope of the Price Risk Framework. The role will require knowledge of Price Risk processes (first or second-line risk management and/or valuation control) as well as change skills to define, organize, and coordinate a program of work across businesses and regions. The role will support Market businesses and functions in driving transformation in underlying risk and control processes. It will involve collaboration with stakeholder groups to define a best-in-class target state, with a robust control framework as well as a set of practical actions to achieve.
  • We are looking for a highly energized, self-motivated BA/SME who is familiar with Market and Treasury end-of-end processes and controls. In addition, a strong communicator with excellent storytelling skills to explain a complex problem that can be easily understood by senior management and key stakeholders across functions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing and supporting multiple Price Risk data quality governance forums and sub-forums, including the production of meeting agendas and minutes.
  • Implement processes for effective internal Data Management controls by monitoring business data quality reports with associated key indicators & metrics, and driving continuous improvement initiatives within the business, resulting in reduction of inherent risks.
  • Engage in a process of data quality issue triage, raising Business priorities & providing proactive guidance to your partners.
  • Implement Data Quality reporting through the definition and implementation of business, data, and system-related control and remediation frameworks at points of capture to resolve data quality exceptions.
  • Works closely with business partners on findings and makes recommendations on improving practices.
  • Understanding of relevant policies and applicability to Markets, establishing ongoing processes to identify and implement changing or new policy requirements, and ensuring no known gaps or otherwise identified and being remediated.
  • Leverages data quality issues to examine impacts on Customer Experience and Regulatory breaks.
  • Can exercise independence of judgment and autonomy.
  • Acts as SME of the DQ IM process to senior stakeholders and /or other team members."

Key Skills Required:

  • Experience in data quality Issue management (IM) role leveraging glossary, lineage, and data quality tools to drive IM governance and reporting
  • Expert in creating and executing a clear governance framework that improves the quality and value of data to meet regulatory commitments and enhance risk management.
  • Knowledge and experience of structured project management techniques in a front office environment Industry experience in data, data management, and/or regulatory initiatives
  • Knowledge of data methodologies/frameworks and demonstrable appreciation of the need for and impact of controls, thresholds, and Data Quality rules plus fundamental data terminology
  • Demonstrable experience in data process flows front-to-back, risk and control, markets, operations, and support & control areas within a large bank/dealer
  • Demonstrable experience of coordinating with stakeholders to drive changes and understand process impact on topics including issue resolution and controls as a consultant or internal change group
  • Knowledge of global markets trading products (Fixed Income, Spread Products, Equity, Rates & Currencies, Commodities) and/or Treasury Investments
  • Knowledge of, and experience in, analyzing legislative, regulatory/supervisory, and legal/compliance texts and analysis

Key Skills Preferred:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to effectively produce documentation and communicate with management and Business / Global Function executives.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail, as well as the ability to understand discrete steps in their process and where remediation needs to be implemented when issues arise.
  • Ability to see the big picture with high attention to critical details. Ability to understand the purpose of the process in terms of the greater context of the business, the products related to the process, what data is being captured, and the reports that are produced.
  • Excellent proficiency in Tableau (metrics and data analysis), PowerPoint (presentation decks), Word (writing and editing procedural, technical documentation, and meeting minutes), Outlook (emails), and Teams (Client Hub, Channels, Chats, Document sharing).
  • Effective organizational influencing skills are required. Strong project management skills; ability to gain consensus among project teams, and drive initiatives to completion effectively.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.
  • Attention to details

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R- Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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