The Data Governance Foundation Lead Analyst is responsible for contributing to the directional strategy and assisting in creation and modification of Enterprise Data Governance Strategy, and/or Data Risk and Control Framework and Data Risk Taxonomy. The focus of this role may be on one or more of the following areas: assisting in identification, measurement and reporting, data policy adoption and compliance, data controls framework performance and issue management process, and regulatory and audit response and action tracking.

The CDO Business Function Quality Control (BFQC) team provides an independent lens on where the scope, intent (written and implied) and associated evidence of committed actions, is reviewed to determine the adequacy of Controls and One Time Remediations in accordance with policies and standards.  This role requires someone who is dynamic, flexible, and can easily respond to quickly changing needs. The candidate must have the ability to handle ambiguity and complexity and be able to deliver on multiple responsibilities. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others.

Responsibilities

• Partner with issue owners and teams to provide guidance, challenge and quality assurance on the approach to pass IA and Regulatory scrutiny
• Facilitate implementation and execution of the Challenge and Quality Review Framework (1st LoD self-assessment), through engagement and credible challenge with senior stakeholders, 2nd and 3rd LoD
• Drive compliance of the Data Assurance Framework with Accountable Executives and Issue Owners
• Provide guidance to Data Governance Plan issue owners on how to best represent a reduction of risk and issue remediation that will pass the scrutiny of IA validation and regulatory review
• Provide an independent initial assessment and challenge on the remediation and evidence artifacts
• Work with stakeholders to drive challenge to ensure strategic deliveries meet the letter and spirit of management, regulator, ORM, Compliance or IA concerns
• Understand the various initiatives of the Data Governance Plan and related commitments and their relationships
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders including issue owners, governance/policy owners, and program leads for intersecting work efforts
• Execute against multiple competing priorities simultaneously 
• Ensure risks and issues are raised in a timely manner and in accordance with Citi policy
• Coordinate self-assessment and credible challenge activities with interdependent initiatives and second and third line of defense. 
• Ensure all programs understand regulatory feedback and expectations, underlying concerns, and their root causes to make sure their commitments are complete
• Provide review and challenge of each program’s defined scope, assessed gap, target state, and success criteria to ensure it fully addresses the letter and the spirit of the regulatory feedback, broader supervisory expectations and underlying issues and root causes
• Identify related and interdependent program elements and provide feedback and input to ensure consistency of review and challenge implementation according to developed guidelines
• Be proactive and self-motivated in driving quality and timely reviews/assessments end-to-end

Qualifications

• Specific subject matter expertise regarding experience with risk and control, quality assurance / control and monitoring processes, data management, data governance, data quality or related initiatives

• Ability to multi-task and to quickly acquire and comprehend the required knowledge
• Self-motivated with the ability to make decisions in absence of detailed instructions.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders. Ability to effectively communicate, both upwards and downwards, across organizational levels.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal and communications skills -- presenting, writing, editing
• Comfortable working in high pressure, fast paced environment, and managing multiple competing and shifting priorities
• Ability to inspire trust, promote collaboration and motivate action
• Strives for continuous improvement

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