Enterprise Data Execution Lead

Enterprise Data Execution Lead - Managing Director

As part of Citi’s Technology and Business Enablement function, the Enterprise Data Office and Data Transformation team is responsible for defining and driving the Firm’s data strategy designed to achieve the highest data integrity standards and meeting regulatory expectations by:

• Establishing and enforcing data-related policies with appropriate governance and oversight

• Optimizing front-to-back technology architecture and data operating model

• Provisioning best-practice tools and capabilities

• Implementing data controls, including data quality measurement and reporting

• Identifying strategic data enhancements and driving remediation

• Leveraging innovative technologies e.g.  AI, NLP

• Building out a firmwide data operating model through domains

• Creating support of the operating model to enable the organization to deliver timely accurate and complete data.

Citi is hiring a senior leader to lead the Firm’s Enterprise-wide Data Execution Management function, as a member of the Enterprise Data Office. This role is responsible for managing the end-to-end operational process for managing data exceptions for enterprise data along with the management of our contractual data warehouse.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as strategic partner between data producers and consumers to ensure data requirements are fulfilled in a complete, accurate, and timely manner

• Drive technical implementation of Data Quality (DQ) rules in associated data platforms (e.g., authorized data warehouses) based on business requirements

• Partner with product and technology development team on data governance and exception management tools.

• Develop metrics and reporting on exceptions and concerns, and escalate material issues to relevant forums

• Centrally maintain data exceptions and data concerns identified through DQ rules, controls, and multi-system reconciliations

• Manage E2E workflow and associated tooling for exceptions remediation

• Partner across EDO and the firm remediation of data exceptions and data concerns per defined processes, meeting SLAs and regulatory expectations

• Own overall operations support for the contractual data warehouse, ensuring data is provided for consumption as per defined SLAs and operating model

• Monitor data acquisition into Contractual data warehouse vs. defined source SLAs; execute necessary ledger and product processor reconciliation

• Manage the overall adjustment process as part of data quality review and reconciliation processes with proper controls, root cause tracking and reporting.

• Review and validate Critical Data Element (CDE) population and integrity within contractual

• Manage and maintain remediation of data exceptions in contractual data warehouse identified through key control processes

• Drive the provisioning and adoption process for the target record layout for downstream construction.

• Support the evolution of the firmwide data architecture partnering with businesses and technology to reduce adjustments and evolution to new strategic data platform.

• Identify emerging execution risks or issues and actively derisk and escalate

• Partner with Risk & Controls team to maintain and enhance an effective operational process and data quality control structure 

• Identify processes for improvement and participate in process reengineering efforts

• Actively engage and partner with Internal Audit to proactively ensure execution outcomes meets expected standards

Qualifications and competencies:

• 15+ years Experience in large Financial Services firm with experience across, finance, data, operational processes, risk & control, business, or technology

• Experience in running a Data Operations function

• Held senior positions managing global teams in large organizations

• Significant experience managing critical operational and data processes at a large organization. 

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and in a fast-paced environment with evolving requirements

• Excellent oral and written communications skills with the ability to synthesize key messages and build relationships with senior executives and business stakeholders

• Strong organizational leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate through a large organization to streamline and summarize multiple information points and create repeatable processes to build consistency

• Must demonstrate