Manager - Global Capabilities Product Owner

About the position

This role is for a Global Capabilities Product Owner in the Regulatory Automation and Change Management team within Financial Reporting Quality Assurance Organization (FRQA), in support of the Regulatory Reporting Automation program. Global Capabilities Product Owner team is responsible for delivering regulatory data and automation capabilities required to support the regulatory reporting team. Some of the key capabilities supported by the team include areas like Regulatory data domain, Cash flow projections, Analytical drill down, Counterparty classifications, Basel RWA calculations etc. This individual will coordinate with several groups within American Express during the course of designing, implementing, and migrating the implemented solution into production. The individual selected will partner closely with the Data Sourcing Architects and Process Owners to drive the priorities of the technology scrum team and ensure that the software features developed aligns with original requirements provided. Also, the individual would need to monitor project progress, solve issues that arise and write technical features and user stories.

Responsibilities

• Participate in daily stand ups with the pods, leading and delivering efficient solution to complex prioritization and business requirement
• Lead and guide regulatory reporting data and automation requirements on existing processes and datasets to understand and support Point of Arrival (POA) process design.
• Develop functional requirement documentation and process specific design documentation to support regulatory report owner requirements and testing lifecycle processes.
• Understand and guide determining portfolios, data elements and attribute analysis grain of data required for designing processes.
• Work with complex cross functional teams: Engineers, Architects, governance & business partners
• Closely collaborate with users to understand the pain points, requirements, feedback and provide them with timely resolutions
• Identify and support business requirements, functional design, prototyping, testing, training, and supporting implementations.
• Design and build ongoing data process controls by collaborating with Technology and Data Governance as needed
• Manage program blocking issues, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical or operational constraints
• 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.
• Knowledgeable in development methodologies, using tools such as SQL, to drive understanding of the system functionality and expected automation results.

Requirements

• Degree in Finance/Accounting and/or Information Technologies.
• 5+ years of work experience in the US Federal Reserve/financial US regulatory reporting, banking/financial services, and/or Controllership.
• Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework, have an Agile mindset, and can embrace new opportunities and adapt easily to change
• Strong knowledge and working experience in regulatory regulations and reporting is required and any exposure to US regulations is preferred.
• Experience eliciting and documenting technical business requirements via the creation of features and user stories
• Strong understanding of relational database concepts and experience working in a big data environment (Hadoop / Cornerstone) preferred both on-prem and cloud capabilities
• IT Data management experience
• Previous work experience in various IT disciplines such as Infrastructure, software development, data management or data analytics
• 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.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to create impactful relationships with key stakeholders
• Excellent relationship building, presentation and collaboration skills.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of US Regulatory Reports (Y9C, Y14, Y15, 2052a, amongst others)
• Working exposure in development of financial data domains to support regulatory and analytical requirements for large scale banking/financial organizations
• SaFe Agile certified is a plus
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified is a plus
• Knowledge and working experience on AxiomSL/Adenza/Nasdaq solutions are preferred
• Testing management and execution experience is a plus
• Foundational data architecture principles and data management experience
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• 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