Full Job Description
Role Description
The Vice President, Data Risk Oversight supports Data Risk Management for the SMBC Group Americas Division (AD) in accordance with applicable regulations, home office policies, and industry best practices.
The Risk Management Department (RMDAD) serves as the second line of defense, responsible for monitoring and assessing business practices against the firm's risk appetite framework. Within RMDAD, the Tech, Data, and Cyber Risk Oversight (TDCRO) team maintains oversight responsibility for the data management program.
The Data Risk VP is responsible for providing independent second-line review and challenge of the design and execution of the firm's data management program.
Role Responsibilities:
• Support the Data Risk Oversight Lead in providing oversight of data projects and programs, ensuring that data-related risks are appropriately governed, managed, and controlled.
• Collaborate with other TDCRO stakeholders on data-related AI governance and management.
• Review and challenge first-line risk identification, risk assessments, mitigating activities, and overall risk profiles related to data management.
• Provide advisory support and collaborate with first-line data governance stakeholders to drive timely remediation of identified issues.
• Review and challenge data governance and data management policies, standards, procedures, controls, risk metrics and indicators, and Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs).
• Maintain awareness of regulatory changes, external data risk events, new products or initiatives, process changes, control enhancements, and issues impacting data management risk.
Qualifications and Skills
• Strong knowledge of data management practices, with the ability to align data risk considerations to the firm's operational risk management framework.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct data management experience within the financial services industry.
• Experience with data governance tools (e.g., Collibra).
• Working knowledge of data management frameworks, processes, and controls, including industry standards such as BCBS 239.
• Experience preparing materials for senior management and board-level committees, with strong written communication skills and attention to detail.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Experience supporting regulatory or audit remediation related to data-related issues.
• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• CDMP certification preferred.
SMBC's employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.
