American Express - Manager - Financial Systems - Data Testing (8-13 yrs)

Manager - Financial Systems (Data Testing)

About the role :

The Data Testing Manager is a key role in the Regulatory Automation and Change Management group, this role is a part of the Data Analytics and Testing team and is responsible for driving and leading the definition, gathering, exploration, and analysis of finance data to deliver the end-to-end automation data and functionality testing of our regulatory reporting platform(s).

The Regulatory the Data Analytics and Testing team oversees the test coordination and partnership with Regulatory Reporting Owners, Product Owners, Data Sourcing Architects, Technology teams and others, guiding and monitoring during the analysis, design, validation, and migration phases for test cases of the solution to be implemented into production. The current role requires a focused approach from the individual to support the analysis and validations for upcoming Basel Endgame regulations implementation for American Express, hence a good working exposure and knowledge in both Basel Standardized and Advanced approaches are essential for this role.

This individual will assist the organization coordinate with several groups within American Express during designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production, partnering closely with Data Sourcing teams and Product Owners to support defining functionality to be built.

This role will require strong collaboration with Technology to design how functionality will work and design the validation process at regular intervals that the software features developed align with original requirements provided to the team.

Minimum Qualifications

Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or Information Technologies.

5+ years of work experience in Data Sourcing, Analytics and Testing domains.

2+ years of work experience in Banking / Regulatory / Financial Services domain.

Experienced in Test management planning, development, maintenance, reporting and overall foundational principles of the Software Test Lifecycle Management (STLC).

Strong SQL / NoSQL and data analysis experience, able to write / understand complex SQL, PL/SQL, with hands-on Oracle SQL and Hive experience.

Experienced in Agile delivery, SAFe certified or other project management methodologies.

Strong knowledge and working experience in Basel Capital Adequacy regulations is required and any exposure to US NPR regulations is preferred. Exposure to both Basel Standardized and Advanced approaches is required including knowledge to subject areas of Market Risk, CVA Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk in additional to Credit Risk.

Knowledge of US Regulatory Reports (Y9C, Y14, Y15, 2052a, amongst others), and general understanding of the banking products.

Strong understanding of relational database concepts and experience working in a big data environment (Hadoop / Cornerstone) preferred.