Data Steward - Financial Crime Prevention | SEB, Stockholm

SEB; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training programs

Work-life balance

Staff banking benefits

Job summary

SEB is seeking a Data Steward within Financial Crime Prevention to improve data quality, governance and transparency across critical data assets. You will work with Data Owners, Product Owners and IT to define controls, investigate issues and drive data management maturity across transaction monitoring, due diligence and regulatory reporting.

The role sits at the intersection of Financial Crime Prevention, Data Management and Regulatory Compliance, offering exposure to data governance platforms

Qualifications

• Experience in Data Management, Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Quality Management, Data Analysis or related disciplines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven ability to collaborate with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business needs into practical data management solutions and controls.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with data quality issues, controls and remediation processes.
• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Support Data Owner in implementing Data Management responsibilities for the Data Area, including data sharing agreements.
• Ensure data availability for analytic teams to derive insights and value.
• Develop and maintain business glossary and definitions (ontology) for the Data Area.
• Identify synergies across use cases to enable scalable data product development.
• Establish and maintain metadata and information in the Enterprise Data Catalogue, incl. data classifications and personal data.
• Define and manage data quality controls and remediation processes.
• Define data lifecycle management processes and support downstream data consumers.
• Collaborate with architects, developers and stakeholders to support data initiatives and ensure cross-use-case synergies.

Skills

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Tools

Collibra

Dataplex

Job description

Are you passionate about data and its role in preventing financial crime? Do you enjoy working hands-on with data while collaborating with business and technology teams to improve quality, governance, and transparency? If so, SEB has an exciting opportunity for you.

Since our founding in 1856, SEB has been a leader in building strong customer relationships and driving sustainable growth. As one of Northern Europe's leading financial services groups, we empower our employees to grow, take responsibility, and make an impact. Welcome to SEB!

About The Role

Financial Crime Prevention (FCP) plays a critical role in protecting SEB, our customers, and society from money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, fraud, and other financial crime risks.

As a Data Steward within Financial Crime Prevention, you will work closely with FCP capability areas to improve the quality, governance, and understanding of critical data assets. You will combine data management expertise with practical analytical skills to ensure data is accurate, properly governed, and fit for purpose across financial crime processes such as transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, and regulatory reporting.

You will collaborate with Data Owners, Product Owners, SMEs, architects, analysts, and technology teams to define and maintain data controls, investigate data issues, support governance activities, and drive continuous improvements in data quality and data management maturity.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of Financial Crime Prevention, Data Management, Regulatory Compliance, and Data Analytics in one of SEB's most important risk domains.

In addition, the role will include:

• Supporting the Data Owner in driving the implementation of the Data Management responsibilities for the Data Area including data sharing agreements.
• Driving availability of data to secure that the consumers (e.g. analytic teams) can derive insights and value deliverables.
• Driving, facilitating and maintaining the business glossary and definitions (ontology) for the Data Area.
• Identifying synergies cross use cases from a data perspective to enable scalable data product development.
• Driving and facilitating establishment of relevant metadata and maintaining of the information in the Enterprise Data Catalogue for the Data Area. This also includes but not limited to information security classifications of the data and identification of personal data.
• Defining, implementing and managing data quality controls and remediation process including development activities.
• Defining, implementing and managing processes for data lifecycle management.
• Supporting downstream data consumers and other stakeholders with expertise of the data.
• Collaborating with architects, developers and other key stakeholders to support development initiatives and ensure synergies across use cases where data expertise is required

To thrive in this role, we believe you have:

• Experience within Data Management, Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Quality Management, Data Analysis, or related disciplines
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to translate business needs into practical data management solutions and controls
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with data quality issues, controls, and remediation processes
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken

It is considered an advantage if you have experience with:

• Enterprise Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, or Data Lineage
• Data management and governance platforms such as Collibra, Dataplex, or similar tools
• BCBS239, DORA, DCAM, GDPR, or other regulatory and data management frameworks
• Data analysis and data quality controls using SQL, BigQuery, or similar technologies
• Financial Crime Prevention, AML, KYC/CDD, Compliance, or Risk Management
• Customer, transaction, and financial crime data domains, including SWIFT, ISO 20022, and SEPA payment messages
• Audit, compliance, or regulatory environments

What we offer:

• Access to extensive training and development programmes
• A healthy work-life balance in an inclusive, welcoming culture
• Competitive compensation and access to SEB’s staff banking benefits, including health insurance and pension savings
• International career opportunities and exposure to a global working environment
• A meaningful role with opportunities to drive impactful change

It is our fundamental belief that inclusion and diversity is crucial for our future success. We strive to have an inclusive, value-driven culture where employees feel valued, respected, and involved irrespective of who they are, what they believe or where they come from.

If you have questions about the position, please contact Morten Rufus Blas ([e-mail]), but we will not process applications via email.

Please be aware that our final candidates undergo background checks, a process that includes for example identity control, verification of qualifications, credit checks, company engagements and criminal records checks. In some cases, we also apply random drug checks. During employment, employees within SEB can also expect to undergo recurring background checks.

SEB Sweden has a redeployment responsibility, why this position might be covered by internal redeployment.

Learn more about working at SEB www.sebgroup.com/career