SMBC Group · 2 weeks ago
Risk Data Management Vice President
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group that offers a diverse range of financial services. The Vice President – Risk Data Management role focuses on executing data governance, improving data quality, and leading data-related projects to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
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Responsibilities
Execute data governance, improve operational data quality, lead data related projects, and implement BCBS 239 compliance. Ensure timely, accurate and complete collection and aggregation of risk data
Act as a data steward, providing guidance and ensuring best practices are followed. Ensure data stewardship processes are aligned with regulatory requirements and SMBC CDO policies and guidance. Promote the use of accepted data definitions, common reference data and sound data usage practices
Define, monitor, and maintain the risk department’s data assets. Establish inventories of key data outputs, and key data elements. Document data lineage, define and monitor data quality controls. Establish key performance indicators for data quality and regularly report on metrics by producing data quality scorecards. Leverage the data governance platform (Collibra) to capture data governance artifacts
Identify data quality issues, and work with the CDO team and other stakeholders to resolve these issues, improving overall data quality within the risk function. Lead initiatives to resolve data quality issues. Ensure risk reporting is accurate, clear and complete, and presented to the right stakeholders timely
Collaborate with other internal stakeholders to ensure appropriate awareness and escalation of issues as they arise
Maintain excellent team-wide subject matter expertise in risk data. Provide data expertise to technology, regulatory and other change projects (new development and enhancement)
Work with technology partners to implement the technology necessary to support the risk data governance program, including the adoption of bank wide master data management tools (e.g. counterparty master)
Qualification
Required
6 – 9 years of total experience
Credit Risk and/or Market Risk reports production experience (Risk reporting implementation and Data Quality checks and remediation) required
SQL experience required
Education: BS/BA Required, preferred majors: computer science, information / data / system management; MBA or MS / PhD in information science
Strong communication (oral and written) and presentation skills
Strong ability to lead in data governance and data quality issue management
Demonstrated experience working on key data elements and data lineage establishment
Experience with working with industry standard data governance tooling, e.g. Collibra
Strong ability to communicate business ideas and topics to technical and nontechnical audience
Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and work with stakeholders in various departments of the firm, or across lines of defense
Extensive knowledge of banking data systems (including SQL, NoSQL) and cloud data platforms (e.g. Azure) and related services
Ability to work under pressure, operate comfortably in a fast-paced, demanding environment, and manage a significant workload with minimal supervision
Ability to collaborate with and successfully contribute to cross-functional teams and work with people from regions around the world
Advanced skills in MS Office products (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.)
Ability to manage several projects with competing deadlines
Preferred
3 - 4 years of specialized experience as a data practitioner in Financial Services, preferably in the risk domain
Python experience preferred
Preferably experience with leading a team of 2 - 4 people
Experience in risk reporting preferred
Benefits
Annual discretionary incentive award
Competitive portfolio of benefits
Company
SMBC Group
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group.
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