Finance Data Governance & Quality Analyst

American Express; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express in New York seeks a Finance Data Governance (FDG) analyst to bring and manage governance for Finance data, ensuring trusted information for critical processes and accounting across finance.

You will partner with Finance Technology Transformation, Enterprise Data Governance, Controllership and Risk to drive governance and data quality, publish scorecards and reports, and operate with a collaborative, time‑managed approach.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Finance experience; Controllership preferred.
• Strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills.
• Proficiency in SQL, AI, and Excel for large-scale data analysis.
• Self-motivated with strong project and time-management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Data governance and data quality experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Finance Data Governance in compliance with the Enterprise Data Governance Policy ensuring the appropriate accountability model and processes for data asset management, metadata management, data quality, and issue resolution.
• Produce data quality scorecards, dashboards, analytical reports, and attestation packages for all processes in scope.
• Identify CDEs and data sources and translating governance and regulatory requirements into actionable data requirements.
• Perform root-cause-analysis of data quality issues and assist in remediation of Audit and Regulatory feedback.
• Support strategic improvements to data assessment process and making necessary enhancements to data analytical and data quality tools.
• Continuing to support our current Regulatory Reporting needs via existing platforms working with our upstream data providers, downstream business partners, as well as technologies.

Skills

SQL

AI

Excel

Data governance

Job description

American Express in New York seeks a Finance Data Governance (FDG) analyst to bring and manage governance for Finance data, ensuring trusted information for critical processes and accounting across finance.

You will partner with Finance Technology Transformation, Enterprise Data Governance, Controllership and Risk to drive governance and data quality, publish scorecards and reports, and operate with a collaborative, time‑managed approach.