About this role
About the Team:
The Master and Reference Data Technology (MRD Tech) team is dedicated to delivering trusted sources of product, pricing, Party, Account, and Corporate Actions data to our clients across the Bank. We achieve this by implementing cutting-edge technologies and streamlined operational processes that govern the entire data lifecycle from collection and storage to analysis and distribution. Our organization partners with all business lines to restructure processes, simplify information access, and deliver critical business intelligence.
The Role:
We are seeking a talented engineer for our VMC team, which is tasked with creating a new, landmark application. This platform will become the Banks's central point of entry for all master and reference data, providing unprecedented transparency into data usage and licensing. As this is a new initiative, the role requires innovative thinking to engineer robust, scalable, and resilient functionalities.
Your activities will include collaborating with external vendors, integrating with internal data sources, and serving a diverse set of consumer systems. This will involve both manual analysis of complex data sets and engineering automated solutions to drive efficiency and accuracy.
Responsibilities:
- Define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals for Vendor Master Central (VMC), through partnership with decision makers, systems owners and end users
- Identify and establish scope and parameters of systems analysis to define outcome criteria and measure-taking actions
- Ability to understand Financial Data and create data models to analyze and process incoming data in the application
- Review sample files and feeds from outside data vendors to understand how their information is structured and spot overlaps across different suppliers.
- Design how vendor details, contract terms, pricing tiers, and renewal dates should connect inside the application so everything stays consistent and easy to search.
- Help create smart rules for the software, such as how to automatically flag duplicate vendor contracts and check incoming data for quality issues.
- Put together simple summaries, data maps, and walkthroughs to help stakeholders understand features and help teammates learn the new platform.
- Independently query and analyze unstructured data from multiple vendors and databases in order to: Diagnose data quality issues.
- Assess system impacts for upcoming changes.
- Define data processing rules.
- Conduct functional testing.
- Generate and compile reports based on findings, including probable causes and potential solutions to systems issues
- Provide advice and counsel related to technology or operations of the business, ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
- Filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex material from multiple sources and perform other duties and functions as assigned
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Recommended Qualifications:
- 8 years of experience in business analysis or systems analysis
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques
- Experience reviewing data, spreadsheets, or business records to find trends, solve problems, and answer questions.
- A positive, collaborative attitude and excitement about helping build a new product from the ground up.
- Proven interpersonal, diplomatic and influencing skills
- Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
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## Job Family Group:
Technology
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## Job Family:
Business Analysis / Client Services
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## Time Type:
Full time
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## Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.
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## Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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