Manager-Financial Systems

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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

• Participate and lead on user acceptance testing, parallel run testing, and any other testing required to ensure the build meets the requirements authored including development and execution of test cases, and documentation of results.
• Lead and guide data analysis on existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design.
• Lead and guide determining portfolios, data elements and grain of data required for designing processes.
• Support team review data scenarios and provide clarification on how to report on these scenarios in alignment with regulatory guidance.
• Identify and support business requirements, functional design, prototyping, testing, training, and supporting implementations.
• Develop functional requirement documentation and process specific design documentation to support regulatory report owner requirements and testing lifecycle processes.
• Document and understand core components of solution architecture including data patterns, data-related capabilities, and standardization and conformance of disparate datasets.
• Lead and guide the implementation of master and reference data to be used across operational and reporting processes.
• Coordinate with various Product Owners, Process Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Solution Architecture colleagues, and Data Management team to ensure builds are appropriate.
• Lead on development of executable testing algorithms using tools such as SQL, that enable validation of the expected system functionality, including replication of deterministic logic and filtering criteria.
• Participate in daily meetings with the pods (implementation groups for various portfolios of the Company for data sourcing and regulatory classification and reporting).

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.
• Experience in data analytics, data profiling, Source to Target (S2T) data mapping, analyzing the System of Record (SOR) data and its Data Quality (DQ) rules to identify data issues in SORs.
• Experience with of MS Excel and Power Query.
• Exhibits organizational skills with the ability to meet/exceed critical deadlines and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously.
• A self-starter, proactive team player with a passion to consistently deliver high quality service and exceed customers expectations.
• Excellent written and verbal communications with ability to communicate highly complex concepts and processes in simple terms and pragmatically across Finance, Business and Technology stakeholders.
• Display thought leadership, drive process, and support work/life balance initiatives.

Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities