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Team Overview:
Global Credit & Model Risk Oversight, Transaction Monitoring & GRC Capabilities (CMRC) provides independent challenge and ensures that significant Credit and Model risks are properly evaluated and monitored, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risks are mitigated through the transaction monitoring program. In addition, CMRC hosts the central product organization responsible for the ongoing maintenance and modernization of GRC platforms and capabilities.
The GRC Data Capabilities team was established with a mission to own and govern data across products – raw data, derivations, organized views to cater for analytics and production use cases and to manage the end-to-end data quality. This team comprises of risk data experts with deep SME knowledge of risk data, systems and processes covering all aspects of customer life cycle.
Our mission is to build and support Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring data and rule needs in collaboration with Strategy and technology partners with focus on our core tenets of Timeliness, Quality and process efficiency.
Responsibilities:
The Manager in this position will have Anti-Money Laundering(AML) data and rule ownership and governance for India Market. The incumbent would be leading a team of 2-3 data analysts and partner closely with AML strategy and compliance teams in building best in class data assets to cater for production use cases and analytical needs, while maintaining strong data governance and quality control framework.
The candidate will be responsible for:
- End to end ownership of all data/rules related to India AML program
- Subject matter expert for the work stream he/she leads with in-depth knowledge of risk systems and processes.
- Thought leadership for the respective workstream he/she leads
- Ability to create a strategy and roadmap for the initiatives he/she is leading
- Responsible for ensuring data engineering principles are applied to each data requirement
- Risk data ownership for data used in our production use cases and analytics
- Define data quality controls (like detective, preventive, B&Cs) for batch and real time data & partners with relevant teams for implementation
- Lead the development of capabilities to reduce manual operations and prevent operational risk
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and drive the product delivery
- Educate stakeholder community on the usage of risk data Reviewing and updating metadata and lineage standards and process guides published by the Enterprise Data Governance team
Minimum Qualifications:
- A successful candidate will have:
- The position needs to have in depth knowledge of Amex Credit Risk Systems
- 5-6 years of hands on experience working on large size Capability or Analytical projects
- Advanced Communicator
- Thought leadership and solution-oriented mindset
- Ability to think strategically and set POA direction- Ability to build strong relationships in a cross-functional environment.
- Clear, effective written and oral communication skills
- Proficient in collaboration to drive results
- Deep understanding of Data Management and Data Governance concepts (metadata, lineage, data quality, etc.)
- Preferred experience with Python, Hive, SQL, Google Cloud
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Engineering
- Proven track record of driving results in a fast-paced environment often with significant ambiguity and needing to make decisions with less than perfect information.
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