Data Steward - Financial Crime Prevention

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 

Ready to take the next step on your career journey?