Data Governance Specialist

DATA GOVERNANCE SPECIALIST (JOB NUMBER: OPS-050622-001-AB)
- At BNP Paribas Canada, it is our employees which make the difference... Our 75 nationalities are part of our diversity

Do you like challenges, a structured framework, the prospect of optimizing and innovating? You are known for your originality and want a certain freedom to think while sharing your knowledge and ideas?

**... Come help us contribute to the growth of our Canadian platform**

You will benefit amongst other things from:

- Access to social volunteer and recreational programs, via our many Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
- Opportunities for career development through active internal mobility and our innovative training program: Canada Academy
- A brand new workspace, flexible, comfortable and easily adaptable to your needs: remote work opportunities, standing desks, innovation lab., open meeting rooms and spaces

**Business Overview**:
USD C&P PCS domain is looking to fill a specialist position within its Data Governance and Model Management function revolving around Data Stewardship, Model Management and Sanctions filtering. The position will have the responsibility of leading the domain’s overall data governance program managing data quality, data lineage, data integrity, and supporting sound data analytics and reporting.
- Results and Impact
- Impacts division and influences peers and team
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
- Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
- Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department
- Self-motivated, strong multi-tasking skills and able to handle tasks with mínimal supervision or questions in a high-volume and fast-paced environment
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Creates trust with department leaders
- Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team
- A team player able to work effectively in a team fostered, multi-tasking environment
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
- Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
- Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at the team level
- Excellent time management skills with strong focus on attention to detail.
- Excellent communication, verbal and written skills, as well as, attention to detail and accuracy and the ability to work with colleagues.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
- Possess a risk and control mindset with the ability to foresee issues and challenges

**Responsibilities**:
Participate in the management of the Data Governance program within the domain.
- Act in the capacity of the Data Steward for USD C&P
- Develop and document control structures within the domain to ensure accuracy and quality of data through all upstream and downstream channels
- Coordinate the resolution of data integrity, quality, and accuracy gaps by working with the Business Owners, Data Owners, Data Custodians and Enterprise Data Management.
- Assist the Data Governance group within USD C&P PCS in the evolution and execution of the data governance framework, policy, standards, and procedures.
- Drive / liaise with internal and external team on projects around data and/or model management
- Participate in the implementation and use of models within the domain.
- Coordinate with RISK IRC on model validation engagements, including planning model validation and remediation of findings if any.
- Document and ensure models are in compliance with USD C&P PCS and RISK IRC Model Governance Policies on Change Management, Model Performance and Operational Controls.
- Work with model users to ensure adequate testing and documentation of performance monitoring including the creation of reporting for the monthly and quarterly model performance KPIs.
- Knowledge of BSA/AML/OFAC Sanctions filtering with focus on model tuning and optimization.
- Monitor the outputs of the various models for consistency in decisions and review inconsistent decisions to determine root cause
- Training staff to improve overall process. Liaise with internal teams and compliance to provide guidance to both staff and the model. Improve filter tuning and or false hit mitigations
- Creation and establishment of monitoring and performance metric for the USD C&P domain
**Minimum Required Qualifications**
- 8-10 years of experience in banking with a minimum of an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information technology, Banking and Finance Business administration or a field with experience in systems administration, analysis, and reporting.
- Results-oriented, diligent, and works with a sense of urgency. Assertive, resp