George Atallah

SVP - Data Governance - Data Controls & Issue Management

Role
SVP - Data Governance - Strategic Ledger - Issue Management at Citi
Location
Buffalo, NY, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About George Atallah

With over a decade of experience, I specialize in data governance, business intelligence,…

Experience

  1. SVP - Data Governance - Strategic Ledger - Issue Management

    Citi

    May 2023 — Present

    Senior Vice President: Finance, Data Governance, Strategic Ledger – Data Controls & Issue Management (2023-Present)Senior leader within the Strategic Ledger implementation program, accountable for establishing data governance controls, designing data analytics mechanisms, and scorecards to enhance business intelligence, implementing Issue Management strategic solutioning to enable future Oracle system releases. • Strengthened data issues management governance by establishing a structured triage and root cause analysis process, enhancing ledger data quality through both tactical fixes and long-term strategic remediation to proactively prevent, detect, and manage data issues. Triaged over 700+ data exceptions in 2024.• Optimized and enhanced the data issue management framework to accelerate resolution timeliness and drive greater transparency and accountability across remediation activities. • Defined and executed a comprehensive testing strategy for data governance capabilities, aligning with program objectives to manage open defect resolution, ensure timely remediation, and escalate high priority issues (HPI) issues identified during strategic testing cycles. • Skilled in designing and implementing standardized procedures, templates, and performance metrics, building dashboards and ad-hoc Key Performance Indicator KPIs ensuring alignment with policies and promoting consistency across operational practices. • Streamlines enterprise reporting processes by developing interactive dashboards and visualization tools, delivering real-time Key Risk Indicators KRIs and actionable data insights to enhance executive decision-making and program transparency. • Implemented enterprise-wide data governance capabilities and controls, grounded in the pillars of accuracy, completeness, comprehensiveness, consistency, and timeliness; successfully built and operationalized 85 control points.

Education

  • University at Buffalo

    BA

    2001 — 2005

  • Canisius College

    MBA

    2006 — 2009

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