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Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

Data Governance Lead working with senior leaders across corporate functions to implement enterprise data governance framework and improve the overall maturity of the data management practices.* Developed a framework to assess the data governance practices and maturity of Enterprise Aggregated Systems. Led working sessions with business and technology stakeholders to understand current state, assess gaps, and determine incremental controls required for strong data governance. Documented recommendations to enhance data governance practices and partnered with stakeholders to implement enhancements. * Provide support on Enterprise data initiatives to help identify and inventory critical data, ensure data flow documentation, champion data quality issues remediation, guide and facilitate data access & controls* Ensure effective implementation of data management practices such as Critical Data Identification, Metadata Mgmt, Data Lineage, Data Quality Monitoring, Data Quality Issues & Remediation, Data Usage.* Perform annual assessment and reporting of data governance maturity for multiple corporate functions using 19-dimensions/criteria, develop action plans to improve maturity level, and partner with stakeholders to ensure plans are progressed to achieve year-end target maturity* Partner with data owners in defining Data Quality measurements and thresholds and work with technology stakeholders in implementing DQ rules to proactively identify issues. * Defined data usage guidelines and requirements to encrypt attributes based on their sensitivity such as SSN, DOB, Intelligence Risk factors etc…* Create/maintain a strategic enterprise-wide data inventory and roadmap to understand the data landscape, prevent duplication of data, cross-function data synergies, prioritize & optimize enterprise spend, and ensure alignment with build once and reuse principles.

Provided leadership and end-to-end execution, oversight and delivery of US and PRA regulatory change and transformation programs.* Responsible for leading the HSBC Bank Transformation program to replace the legacy Core Banking Systems for the Finance Regulatory Reporting area.* Responsible for the delivery of an Integrated Risk/Finance transformation program supporting the Global Finance Strategy to replace the local legacy architecture for US and PRA RWA calculations and regulatory reporting. Program implemented a future state architecture that supported increased granularity of data across all exposures with standard interfaces and data definitions. Solution covered requirements for multiple PRA regulations – Basel III AIRB, IFRS9, STDF, CoREP, and U.S. regulations – Basel III Standard, CCAR 14Q Wholesale Risk, and CCAR Forecast RWAs. Significantly reduced data quality issues and eliminated the need for adjustments or end-user-computing support. Implemented robust set of Regulatory and MI Analytic reporting capabilities using Qlikview.* Management of 10-15 resources (business analysts, project managers, and testers) primarily focused on US and PRA Regulatory deliverables.* Responsible for the Book of work prioritization, full project lifecycle planning, requirements definition in conjunction with stakeholders, define solution design options and recommendations, functional design reviews, infrastructure and engineering oversight, test strategy definition, functional test execution, delivery management of project phases, release co-ordination across all contributing teams, project resource allocation, project/program status reporting to all governance forums, post-implementation support, and budget management. * Partnered with Risk and Regulatory Reporting stakeholders to identify critical data elements and ownership.* Responsible for end-to-end delivery to automate and streamline the Wholesale Stress Testing process to support CCAR Stress Testing.

Provided leadership, planning, and managing the change portfolios for the Risk, Finance and Compliance functions with an IT budget of over $60 million. Proficient at Order book management, developing detailed portfolio delivery and strategy plan, managing the change portfolio against constraints, governed by portfolio delivery and investment committees. Establish and run governance committees to enable senior management to oversee the delivery, ongoing prioritization, issue escalation for the change portfolio. Responsible for the delivery of critical and significant scope of work that involves the highest priority regulatory and compliance initiatives for the bank.* Developed and maintained long-term trust based strong relationships with the business and technology stakeholders.* Demonstrated stellar delivery of the portfolio change through subject matter expertise knowledge of the portfolio and the functions supported.* Developed portfolio delivery roadmap and provided transparency on delivery status of the overall order book, identified and managed dependencies and portfolio level risks and issues.* Recognized for the ability to build, motivate and develop high-performing teams to accomplish challenging goals in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.* Recognized by the Sr. Risk and Sr. Change Management for dedication, subject matter expertise, and outstanding support in enabling and managing the IT deliverables and in helping the bank to successfully complete Basel II parallel run.* Recognized as the trusted partner and go-to consultant for solutions to any data and technical challenges within the Risk and Finance domain.* Defined and delivered data lineage, data quality framework, infrastructure and increased reporting granularity and flexibility for ad-hoc reporting demands.* Partnered with business stakeholders in identifying data gaps, mapping data, architect solution, and successfully delivered CCAR 14Q and 14M Regulatory schedules.

Managed the overall technology implementation of the Basel II / Risk MI analytics solution enabling cross-functional overview of Risk and Finance metrics. Managed a team of 30 multi-location resources to deliver various Risk and Basel II project deliverables across business lines. * Managed the Basel II flagship project and delivered on several critical data, model remediation, and historical backfilling of data to support Risk model development. Supported the implementation of a data profiling solution and in defining the data rules to validate data quality of critical data elements used in the Basel II models, RWA calculations and Reporting.* Led the design, development and implementation of an industry leading Risk Management Information data mart solution to enable Sr. Risk Management to effectively monitor Retail accounts performance across lifecycle.* Developed and managed the IT Plan, managed weekly management/project meetings, building communication channels for timely project delivery.* Managed the implementation of standardized Risk reports that combined existing loss forecasting metrics with newly evolved Basel concepts, enabling Risk business users to assess risk, revisit and modify forecasts, and meet regulatory demands.* Led the implementation of standard reports to enable the Risk reporting stakeholders to analyze and report monthly credit risk data, identifying portfolio trends, outliers, and data integrity issues. * Managed the implementation of a solution to assess and report data quality issues for all the critical data elements used in the Basel II Retail models.* Established and supported processes to ensure monthly operational timelines were met and data quality issues remediated.* Partnered with the Finance and IT stakeholders in architecting the solution to replace the legacy Basel II Regulatory Reporting Solution (BRRS). * Implemented solutions to enable the Finance Basel II team to reconcile the balances with the General Ledger.

Hand-selected by Sr. Management as one of 3 key resources in the re-engineering of the Household enterprise data warehouse solution. This solution sourced, transformed and loaded large volumes of data across 9 lines of businesses including Credit Card, Mortgage, Retail Services, Consumer Lending, and Auto. Identified and resolved the critical design flaws, addressed inefficiencies in the processes, and significantly improved the overall efficiency of the batch processes and the quality of the data. Participated and conducted design walk-through of the core warehousing processes including logical and physical modeling of the database. Participated in the build and deployment of the data warehouse solution for the credit card and mortgage business units.  Technically led the design, build and implementation of an enterprise credit and collections risk datamart solution. Managed a team of 10 resources across lines of businesses in successfully delivering the datamart solution.  Implemented new batch dialer and VRU feeds to gather additional customer information for skip tracing purposes.  Redesigned and implemented significantly improved Products Per Customer (PPC) process and reduced the overall processing and resource support required to generate the monthly PPC reports. Led the build and implementation of a customer contact datamart to enable the Collections team to effectively collect on overdue payments.

Mba, Organizational Behavior Studies

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