Lead Data Analyst, VP

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Position Overview:

As a Lead Data Analyst on Transaction Testing platform, you will drive discussions with business stakeholders, make sure prioritization is in place, work and manage end-to-end initiatives, project enhancements, gather and document requirements, provide implementation / post-implementation support, interact with stakeholders at many levels of the organization, from junior analysts to senior management across multiple departments.

You will make clear and simple solutions and champion high standards of business analysis and its best practices.

Team/Function Overview:

Transaction Testing End to End Solution offers technical capabilities at scale that will improve transaction testing process and enable larger sample testing at increased frequency utilizing modernized and optimized technical infrastructure

Technology is focused on improving the data architecture and how data is managed front-to-back through placing more controls on SOR data, ensuring complete lineage, mapping of data to end-points, testing our results and simplifying through application migrations

Responsibilities

• Understand data requirements and coordinate across data teams, understand data details and dependencies to support Transaction testing.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for strategic data analysis, identify insights and implications as well as make strategic recommendations, develop data displays that clearly communicate complex analysis.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills to negotiate internally, often at a senior level, leveraging diplomacy to guide, influence and convince internal stakeholders.
• Work with development team to ensure data ingestion/recon is completed within stipulated SLA. Support Sampling/profiling as required.
• Contribute to the design, roll-out and governance of financial solutions, including:
  • Participate in formulating and setting strategic direction for the transaction testing process, organization and architecture covering Finance across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
  • Assist in setting business and information architecture standards for Finance
• Apply in-depth knowledge of the business impact of process design and technical contributions.
• Support delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions.
• Consult on business operations offering authoritative advice to influence significant business outcomes.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Perform other duties and functions as assigned.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in wo