Chief Data & Analytics Office, Control Manager - Data Governance – Vice President

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

This includes validating the quality, integrity, and security of the firm’s data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision-making.  The CDAO organization primarily consists of the firmwide Chief Data Office, firmwide Chief Analytics Office and Data & Analytics Product/Platforms.

As a Control Manager for Data Governance within the Chief Data & Analytics Office, you will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving the control environment for Data Governance Initiatives

Job Responsibilities:

• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve the control environment for Data Governance Initiatives, ensuring alignment with firmwide risk appetite and governance frameworks.
• Establish and manage all relevant firmwide common processes, associated risks, and controls for Data Governance, to confirm consistency and ensuring all key controls are accurately reflected and maintained in CORE.
• Identify, assess, and document key risks and controls for the Chief Data Office (CDO) in partnership with CDO business stakeholders, ensuring all controls are implemented, sustainable, and recorded in CORE.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on firmwide Data Governance policies, standards, and common processes, providing authoritative guidance to CDO business stakeholders and LOB/CF control partners, and ensuring all relevant controls are captured in CORE.
• Support the development, socialization, and adoption of firmwide common controls related to Standards and procedures, collaborating with CDO business stakeholders and LOB/CF control partners to ensure all controls are documented in CORE.
• Lead and support risk assessments related to Data Governance Initiatives, ensuring timely identification, escalation, and remediation of control gaps, with all findings and control updates reflected in CORE.
• Verify that key controls outlined in data-related policies, standards, and procedures are accurately reflected in CDAO and, where appropriate, across LOBs and CFs, leveraging expertise in the CORE platform.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, governance, and reporting by partnering with CDAO leadership, business stakeholders, LOB/CF control partners, and the Firmwide Controls team.
• Foster a community of practice for Data-related Control Managers, CDAO leadership, business stakeholders, and LOB/CF control partners across LOBs and CFs, focusing on updates to standards, calibration of common controls, and sharing of best practices.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. 
• 7+ years of financial services experience in controls, audit, quality assurance, risk management, or compliance
• Proficient knowledge of control and risk management concepts with the ability to design, create, and evaluate a Risk & Control Self-Assessment in conjunction with business partners
• Prior experience in identifying Risks associated with Data and required mitigating controls
• Knowledge of various regulatory requirements around data such as BCBS 239, etc.
• Strong understanding of the 3 lines of defense in banking institutions, Compliance, Conduct & Operational Risk Frameworks
• Independent self-starter, able to navigate ambiguity and exercise sound judgment in identifying critical issues and seeking relevant information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote) and be able to effectively communicate and articulate complex topics in a simpler way

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Big4 Consulting experience a plus