Job Title: Data Steward Contractor Job Duration: 12-month contract Location: Jersey City, NJ 07310 Pay Range: $65-75/ hour on W2 (Depending upon the experience) Job Description: The Data Steward within the Finance COO - Data Office (FDO) serves as the primary liaison for the CIB Americas Finance & Tax department, ensuring the maintenance of an effective data governance framework. Reporting to the head of FDO, the Data Steward will be responsible for assessing, evaluating, and resolving data quality issues, formulating and proposing optimal data sourcing and maintenance strategy, and assisting Finance & Tax management in the implementation of the strategy. Candidate Success Factors: Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform: • Results and Impact - Able to influence peers and team. - Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact. - Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work. - Responsible for driving outcomes, which have a meaningful effect on team or department. • Leadership and Collaboration: - Create trust with colleagues. - Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs. • Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus: - Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients. - Interacts regularly with management and department leaders. - Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level. • 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. Responsibilities: The data steward will lead the business line stream, supporting Finance & Tax teams by analyzing data issues, investigating anomalies from data quality checks, and proposing and implementing data sourcing structures. This includes: • Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements and processes for data strategy implementation. • Document existing and proposed workflows, identifying gaps and areas for improvement. • Support enhancement efforts of data control environment and upstream processes. • Lead the remediation effort over issues related to data sourcing, data inaccuracy, and data compliance. Prepare and present these issues to the relevant data governance bodies. • Ensure timely and quality delivery of assigned projects and activities. • Coordinate with stakeholders across various locations including New York, New Jersey, Montreal, Mumbai, London, and Paris. The strengths and skills that will help you succeed • 7+ years of experience in IT audit (external or internal) and/or IT control framework management and implementation within the financial services industry. • Strong self-direction and initiative, with the ability to take complete ownership over projects and tasks. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including expertise in business processes and data analytics. • Knowledge of accounting and basic general ledger structures is required. • Experience must encompass business analysis, data sourcing and management, business/functional specification, and application testing. • Ability to understand financial products and system architectures, as well as accounting business processes including financial and management reporting (e.g., IFRS and US GAAP), month-end closing processes, regulatory reporting, entity consolidations, and multi-currency accounting. • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the capability to multi-task and articulate complex issues clearly and concisely to audiences of varying levels. • Proven ability to work effectively in geographically dispersed cross-functional teams. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Power platform. • Working knowledge of project management skills, JIRA, and SharePoint. Preferred Qualifications: • Fluency in one of more of these languages preferred: French, Spanish and/or Portuguese. • Knowledge of emerging solutions and analytic tools preferred, e.g., robotics, Alteryx, BI, AI etc. FINRA Registrations: Not Applicable CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required): Not Applicable SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person: Not Applicable