Job Description

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Reference data.You have found the right team. The organization closely examines the general ledger, operating systems and infrastructure controls across the entire lifecycle and diverse product scope of the investment bank to ensure the firm\'s financial information is accurately depicted for reporting and regulation purposes. This financial information is used by analysts to assess the firm\'s financial position by management to make sound financial decisions by investors to make informed decisions and by regulators to supervise and examine the firm appropriately. Finance Reference Data (FRD), within FAIR, is responsible for providing a wide range of Finance and Accounting services to Business and Finance clients globally. Services include managing all aspects of core Financial Data Dimensions including Legal Entity, Business Unit, GL Account, Product, and Data Source. The FRD team performs transaction processing for add/change/close requests, provides data content analysis & mapping support across all Lines of Business, supports cross-firm project efforts related to Business, Regulatory, and Conversion events, and engages in a variety of support activities (Re-engineering, Production Support, Process/Policy/Procedure Management, Metrics Reporting, Controls, and Service Support). Job Responsibilities : Daily responsibilities include processing BAU requests i.e. Add/Modify/Purge and consistently maintain data integrity across these dimensions. Monitor and review the major processes and procedures with a high impact in FRD to identify and escalate potential issues. Examples of this include monitoring the BU hierarchy from BD-14 to BD-7 to proactively identify issues that may impact Global Close activities Create and execute SQL queries to pinpoint workflow issues, data content gaps and potential system processing errors. Ability to relate / link data quality issues to financial reporting and ledger processing and decide the course of action during critical days or otherwise resolution Responsible for analyzing and fixing breaks in the reconciliation reports on mapping issues and GL breaks. This requires the ability to take an open-minded, well-reasoned and creative approach to address issues i.e. Effectively listen to issues, eliminate extraneous information and assess the underlying client need in order to provide a well-crafted resolution Assisting the Team Leads and managers in preparing critical reports for Internal and External Audits. Certain times have faced the audit in individual capacity in the absence of the managers. Represents the team in group client meetings to facilitate issue resolution Position has the authority to implement operational changes to resolve issues. This activity encompasses gauging the severity of the issue and its impacts, determining an appropriate solution, and implementing the resolution Independently assess when and what type of messaging is needed for issues, changes to the system, or other system details and craft communications to key parties. Manage the enhancement/production request process, create op models for the process, and lead the monthly operate release process Conduct significant data mining and analysis to support recommendations and necessary action items. Develop, track, analyze, and publish project reports, resource management reports, project summaries, scorecards and program/project performance trends. Support management of projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing the issue resolutions process and taking corrective action or escalating the issue when appropriate Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent 3 plus years professional experience with at least 1 year of related finance and accounting experience Strong problem solving ability and analytical skills required Detail oriented and precise. Must be able to effectively prioritize and multi task Must be flexible (capable of team work and independent effort) within a virtual team that encompasses different locations, countries, and time zones Proactive, independent and self-managing. A team player and adaptable to changing environment with good interpersonal skills Support management of projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, managing the issue resolutions process and taking corrective action or escalating the issue when appropriate Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills Strong technical skills such as Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SQL and SAP knowledge desired. Basic knowledge of SQL Exposure to agile technology and project management is a plus Knowledge of Reference Data is a plus and have strong analytical bent of mind and data mining skills.

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