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Manager Finance Data Governance (India)
As part of the Finance Data Governance Organization (FDG) within Corporate Controllership, this role is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end process of financial regulatory data attestation, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and traceability of data submitted to regulatory bodies. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of financial regulations, a strong command of data governance principles, and proven experience implementing attestation processes in complex, regulated financial environments
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation and ongoing execution of the regulatory data attestation framework across Finance.
- Support in establishing standards, controls, and documentation protocols to ensure consistent and auditable sign-off on regulatory data submissions (e.g., FR Y-9C, CCAR, Basel, BCBS 239).
- Develop and maintain attestation workflows, schedules, templates, and dashboards using an AMEX enterprise tool.
- Perform and document data quality checks, transformation validations, and reconciliation activities in support of attestation readiness.
- Facilitate attestation review sessions with data stakeholders and maintain a clear audit trail of signoffs.
- Generate and present attestation status reports for leadership and regulatory stakeholders.
- Collaborate with internal audit and compliance teams to ensure policy alignment and audit preparedness.
- Support the integration of data attestation into broader data governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in finance, Accounting, Information Management, or related field; advanced degree or certifications (e.g., CA, CPA, CISA, CDMP) preferred.
- 7 plus years of work experience in data governance, data quality, regulatory reporting, or audit/compliance roles.
- Experience of Finance, Banking, or similar industries is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of data flows, data lineage, and control frameworks across a wide range of architectures/platforms.
- Familiarity with attestation, data certification, or data sign-off practices in regulated environments (e.g. OCC, FRB, etc.)
- Strong relationship skills and communication is essential as the role require partnering with multiple groups e.g., Business process owners, Technologies, and Enterprise Data Governance.
- Experience supporting regulatory reporting (e.g., FR2052a, FRY 14s, FFIEC 031, FRY9C, etc.)
- Self-motivated and proactive, ability to manage multiple assignments and projects concurrently within tight deadlines.
- Ability to be flexible, prioritize multiple demands, and effectively manage in a matrix organization.