Description
At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.
Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
How will you make an impact in this role?
As part of the Finance Data Governance Organization within Corporate Controllership, this role is responsible for bringing and managing data under governance for Finance. The Finance Data Governance (FDG) team is leading the effort of defining the future roadmap for data governance within Finance and ensuring that trusted information is used for critical processes, decision making, and accounting across various finance processes.
As a FDG Manager, you will support the development and implementation of solutions in accordance with the Enterprise Data Governance policy and framework. You will partner closely with Finance Technology Transformation, Enterprise Data Governance, Controllership, Risk, and other teams to drive data governance and data quality within Finance.
The FDG Manager is a collaborator, a well-organized, action-oriented individual with exceptional leadership and time management skills, confident in presenting, facilitating, and building a network of strong relationships across our organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Finance Data Governance in compliance with the Enterprise Data Governance Policy ensuring the appropriate accountability model and processes for data asset management, metadata management, data quality, and issue resolution.
Participate in all aspects of Data Governance specifically on data classification, Data Quality, data catalog and lineage, as well as compliance to data standards and privacy regulations.
Support development and maintenance of business glossary, data integration, data lineage, and data management activities
Provide insight into the root-cause-analysis of data quality issues and assist in remediation of Audit and Regulatory feedback.
Recommending strategic improvements to data assessment process and making necessary enhancements to data analytical and data quality tools.
Validate completeness of data lineage between the point of data element creation (system of record) and the point where it is consumed by business users
Provide ongoing support for metadata implementation, testing and integration
Provide technical training and documentation in support of metadata policies and procedures
Responsible for understanding end-to-end data flows and identifying data dependencies on upstream and downstream systems
Serve as a Product Owner and a liaison between Technology teams, application teams and product teams to drive Data Governance requirements and priorities.
Participate in PI planning and ability to develop and communicate product goal/objectives, manage and prioritize product backlog.
Minimum Qualifications:
Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.
5 years of work experience, of which at least 2 years in metadata
Strong technical and data analysis skills with prior experience with SQL, Hive, Google Cloud.
Demonstrated ability to collect business requirements and use them to guide implementation of a technical solution.
Prior experience of Data governance, Data Management, Metadata, and data lineage tools such as, COLLIBRA, MANTA
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Detailed understanding of the SDLC and experience in AGILE-based product ownership & development.
Strong excel and other technical skills, prior experience with SQL
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to lead and manage Data Analytics and BI projects is strongly desired.
Experience of Finance, Banking, Insurance or similar industries is a strong plus.
Self-motivated and proactive, ability to manage multiple assignments and projects concurrently within tight deadlines.
Experience of a wide range of architectures/platforms. (Oracle, Single-Store, Hadoop)
Qualifications
Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 annually bonus benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
Competitive base salaries
Bonus incentives
6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
Career development and training opportunities
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.
We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
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Job: Finance
Primary Location: US-New York-New York
Schedule Full-time
Req ID: 25009598
