Data Governance Specialist

$101,231 - $172,355/Yr

Royal Bank of Canada - Los Angeles, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Los Angeles, CA

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Data Governance Specialist at City National Bank plays a crucial role in ensuring the successful execution of the data governance program across various business areas. This position involves implementing data controls, coordinating with data stewards and IT teams, and maintaining compliance with enterprise data policies. The specialist will also be responsible for documenting governance activities, managing critical data issues, and producing governance dashboards to support data management efforts.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the development and execution of the Data Governance Strategy.
• Coordinates with operational and reporting data stewards to create data controls and manage using dashboards.
• Maintains enterprise data policy for governing data and measures compliance to the data policy for critical data and reports.
• Maintains ongoing communication with data stewards to ensure timely communication of critical data issues for remediation.
• Collaborates with Data Stewards, data custodians, and report developers to ensure consistent use of data definitions and authorized data sources.
• Ensures operational data stewards define and maintain data definitions, descriptions, set values, quality rules, and calculations in the business glossary.
• Establishes and maintains programs to monitor and measure data governance adoption and achievements.
• Responsible for maintaining an accurate enterprise critical report library with associated reporting metadata.
• Documents and maintains data governance activities, logs, and records issues and resolutions.
• Educates data stewards, data owners, and data custodians on governance roles and responsibilities.
• Serves as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure data-related business requirements are clearly defined and understood.
• Produces data governance dashboards on a recurring basis.
• Enlists data owners, data stewards, and data custodians for active management of critical data and key issues.
• Manages documentation and remediation of key data issues.
• Executes a reliable second-line-of defense process via documented processes, controls, templates, and rigors.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience with providing data governance function and operations.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• Minimum 5 years of consultancy and facilitation skills.
• Bachelor's Degree preferably in Information Systems or Business Administration.
• Master's Degree in a related field is strongly desired.
• Prefer 5 years of banking experience, preferably in regulatory reporting or credit.
• Knowledge of information access and delivery methods, analytics applications, and tool portfolio, data sourcing and integration methods.
• Understanding of data warehouse, ETL, data cleansing, and architecture.
• Strong understanding of the FR Y-14M and FR Y-14Q CCAR reporting preferred.
• Experience with CCAR reporting and/or credit risk analytics preferred.
• Experience working and effectively collaborating with reporting, operations, and technology teams.
• Familiarity with operational and support environment issues.
• Strong critical thinking ability and problem resolution skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal/written communication skills, and strong project management skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience consulting with senior management.
• Thorough knowledge and operational skills in Data Governance.
• Thorough knowledge of personal computers and various software packages, including Excel and Word.

Benefits

• Eligible for bonus and/or commissions.
• Comprehensive benefits and perks offered by City National Bank.