SVP, Data Governance & Standards Product Manager

CitiServicesis a leading provider of cash management and trade finance/services to corporate, public sector and financialinstitutionsclients around the world. With a global network spanning 98 countries, and serving clients in 160,Servicesis uniquely qualified to serve clients with local and cross-border interests.

As Citi pivots to sustained growth acrossall ofits business lines (both corporate and consumer), there is a recognition that a key enabler is the ability to better harness data, analytics, and insights, both within individual business units, but also across business lines to create incremental value, both internally and externally.  The Data and Analytics team inServicesowns the data and analytics product (all data needed to enable client products, make business decisions, fulfil regulatory/legal needs, key analytics for product decisions and insights, as well as data tools that empower the business users or deliver to client solutions) across allServicesproducts and functions.  The team also manages the data, analyticsvisionand roadmap together with business stakeholders, and product-manages the Agile delivery of data, insight, and solution across data scientists and engineering.

Data is a critical area of focus within the business.It is global in scope which would provide a lot of visibility to the senior management withinServicesvia regular interactions, presentation, and discussion forums.

Citi is seeking a strong business-minded analytical leader to both create and execute against a data agenda that will accelerate positive outcomes primarily for critical business initiatives.  This Data Leader willinterface withmultiple business stakeholders to understand needs/priorities and pave the path for how data & analytics can used to accelerate outcomes, focus data, analytics, engineering resources to deliver against biggest business value, following Agile Data Product Management best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Execute Citi’s DataTransformationstrategy across all products, ensuring thatdata standards are defined and implementedgloballyto enableconsistent process foracquiring, persisting, and delivering Data

• Create andmaintaina product vision aligned to business priorities, key user needs, and organizational OKRs

• Own and prioritize the long-term Data Standards roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, working closely with a cross-functional team to ensure that all the right resources are aligned

• Implement theServicesProducer / Consumer data strategy model and support underlying data management processes - data process mapping, lineage, and data cataloging

• Act as product owner / manager for critical data foundation, lineage, quality, discovery, and data work to satisfy the regulatory requirements.

• Work with product and data consumer stakeholders and other business areas to capture requirements for data and use cases

• Design and deploy datasets that can beleveragedas thesingle sourceof truth for all reporting and analytics for regulators, business stakeholders, and client use cases

• Understand various technological solution for building Canonical Data Model (CDM) and big data solution 

• Define the change and life cycle management of the Data Standards andidentifyways to automateworkflowfor review and approval

• Partner to define the tooling strategy for Data Standardsdefinition andlife cycle management. Also,enable codification of Data Standards to be consumed by other systems

• Understand how Data Standards and data models fits into the larger ecosystem,anticipatingimpacts from changes in other parts of the business

• Work cross functionally with data producing platforms, and Agile SCRUMs of data scientists and engineers for delivery

• Continually, succinctly, and clearly communicate progress and results against the data/analytics agenda to stakeholders across the organization

• Investigate and leverage - Continually “bring the outside in” to learn and deploy best practices from other organizations or industry forum

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Finance, Math, Operations Research, engineering or science or other related fields;Master'sis a plus

• 8+ yearsofrelatedexperience

• Experience working as a product manager or product owner, leading Agile teams for data/analytics outcomes

• Experience working with large volumes of data and strong understanding of data analytics - traditional business analytics and modern data science techniques

• Experience in leading the designing, developing, or managing Data / analytics solutions

• Cloud experience would be preferrable 

• Familiarity with Data management and modelling concepts, canonical Data models

• Familiarity with merchant and transaction banking or at least in financial services 

• Able tounderstand business needs and translate into analytical execution, including the supervision and review of the analysis, with a critical eye

• Able toinnovate new use cases and evaluate business impact

• Ableinterface with technology to create user stories plan and groom Agile sprints

Personal Skills:

• Self-motivated & accountable – Have a ‘Can do’ and ‘Get it done’ attitude – do whatever necessary and take full ownership of delivery

• “Product” mindset focused on users, pain points and value-creation delivering solutions

• Product Management Skills, ability to lead cross functional teams towards a common vision

• Superior communication skills – able to clearly articulate complex strategies/techniques and ideas, in both oral and written form, to senior management, with associated poise

• Execution oriented –doesn’tremainin the theoretical; is able to make choices/decisions in the name of delivering rapid business impact

• Collaborative – Possess strong collaboration and influencing skills to effectively lead cross-functional teams to drive deliverables,projectsand engagements to completion

• Bias for change – actively seeks out ways to improve processes, people, etc.

• Influencing skills – able to influence outcomes without necessarily direct authority; experienced in navigating large complex organizations to achieve results

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.