Risk & Compliance Data Steward

Mizuho; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Hybrid work options

Total rewards package

Job summary

Mizuho is seeking a Risk & Compliance Data Steward to lead the domain, drive data strategy, and ensure high-quality, accessible data for risk management and regulatory reporting. You will collaborate with business contacts to define data requirements and work with technology partners to translate needs into prioritized features.

The role includes managing Data Stewards and Data Quality Analysts, aligning with enterprise standards, and guiding data governance across risk and compliance domains

Qualifications

• Fluency in data governance, data quality, and metadata management principles.
• Strongly preferred: experience supporting both Risk and Compliance functions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage competing priorities.
• Experience with regulatory, compliance requirements and risk management related to Financial industry.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change programs.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise workforce strategies into actionable data management plans for the Risk & Compliance Data Domain.
• Lead new data initiatives by defining business cases, gathering requirements, and prioritizing projects across the domain.
• Establish and maintain processes aligned with Enterprise Data Policy and Standards.
• Oversee access and provisioning of Risk & Compliance data, including defining access controls, supporting data users, and ensuring compliance with Data Service Agreements and regulatory standards.
• Ensure that all Risk & Compliance data is governed in accordance with enterprise policies and controls.
• Act as change agent within the Domain, influence changes towards a data driven culture.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Regulatory reporting

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Job description

Join Mizuho as a Risk & Compliance Data Steward!

Mizuho’s data operating model comprises of enterprise-wide groups and federated data domains to drive accountability and management of data. The federated operating model ensures minimal overlaps and reduced handoffs of data attributes across the data lifecycle.

Federated data domains (data domains) are defined according to the various types of data originated and consumed by the enterprise (transactional, derived and master/reference), and in such manner that there are no unclaimed or overlapping data elements between two domains. Their definition and structure aim to support Mizuho’s business activities and operations.

Data is clustered into federated domains with overall accountability and ownership for data quality, from origination to consumption. The Risk & Compliance Data Domain will manage data related to Mizuho’s Risk Management and Compliance processes, including risk aggregation, regulatory reporting, and controls.

Data Domains core responsibilities include definition and ownership of business use cases, serving as owners for and managing data within the domain (selected with view to exhaustively cover data within the enterprise with no overlaps), ensuring data satisfies the needs of data consumers, managing data quality assessments and remediation with source systems, expressing the data model and data definitions for the data elements within the domain, and participating in the enterprise data governance bodies.

Risk & Compliance Data Steward

As the Risk & Compliance Data Steward, you will serve as the strategic lead and subject matter expert for the Risk & Compliance Data Domain, which encompasses all functions under the Risk and the Compliance Divisions. You will act as the steward of the Bank’s core system for Risk and Compliance ensuring that data is accurate, accessible, and aligned with enterprise standards. A key part of this role is to understand how Risk and Compliance data is created and used across the organization so that you drive the definition of the Vision and strategy for key platforms supporting the domain, ensuring alignment with business objectives and stakeholder expectations. You will spend a significant amount of time directly engaging with business contacts to understand data requirements, usage, and challenges to be addressed by the data strategy as well as with the Technology partner to create, prioritize, and refine requirements to ensure the development team is always working on the most valuable features. This role will manage Data Steward(s) and Data Quality Analyst(s) supporting the Risk & Compliance Data Domain and sub domains.

Responsibilities

Data Strategy & Governance

• Translate enterprise workforce strategies into actionable data management plans for the Risk & Compliance Data Domain.
• Lead new data initiatives by defining business cases, gathering requirements, and prioritizing projects across the domain.
• Establish and maintain processes aligned with Enterprise Data Policy and Standards.
• Oversee access and provisioning of Risk & Compliance data, including defining access controls, supporting data users, and ensuring compliance with Data Service Agreements and regulatory standards.
• Ensure that all Risk & Compliance data is governed in accordance with enterprise policies and controls.
• Act as change agent within the Domain, influence changes towards a data driven culture.

Data Architecture

• Manage the definition of golden sources and systems of record for data in scope, including data critical to risk aggregation, regulatory reporting, and control processes.

Data dictionary

• Support stakeholders in defining, validating, and maintaining business definitions for data elements.
• Accountable for data lineage and technical metadata for data elements within domain.
• Identify need for changes in metadata within domain, including impacts to regulatory, compliance or risk reporting data elements.

Data Quality

• Support stakeholders in developing and managing data quality controls for data within domain to satisfy consumer’s requirements.
• Oversee remediation of Data Quality issues through prioritizing issues to remediate; review and challenge remediation plans, with focus on issues impacting regulatory accuracy, compliance oversight or risk decisions.

Reporting Structure / Leadership Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team of data professionals supporting the Risk and Compliance domains, including direct management responsibilities (e.g., Data Quality Analyst) and oversight of sub-domain stewards.
• Establish, develop, and oversee a network of Sub-Domain Data Stewards across the Risk and Compliance organizations, ensuring appropriate domain coverage, clear accountability, and effective execution of Data Stewardship responsibilities.
• Partner with the Data Management Office and business leaders to formalize the Sub-Domain Data Steward model, strengthening ownership and focus for critical data assets.

Demonstrated Skills

• Fluency in data governance, data quality, and metadata management principles.
• Strongly preferred: demonstrated experience supporting both Risk and Compliance functions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage competing priorities.
• Experience with regulatory, compliance requirements and risk management related to Financial industry.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change programs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Management role (Dir/ExecDir)
• 3+ years experience with Data Quality and Data Management
• Experience with data design, data audit, data governance and IT a plus
• Experience in Compliance, Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, or related domains preferred

The expected base salary ranges from $200k-$250k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Other Requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process.

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill , Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.