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Consultant, Business Analyst - Regulatory Technology & Financial Crimes

Sia Partners

Consultant, Business Analyst - Regulatory Technology & Financial Crimes

New York, NY +1 location
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    You will support our emerging Regulation Technology team which works alongside our Financial Crimes Advisory group assisting clients in the design and execution of various regulation technology implementations, testing, tuning, and calibration of key BSA/AML, Sanctions and Fraud systems. These include transaction monitoring, sanctions filtering tuning, above the line/below the line analysis, identification of trends and patterns, model validations including DFS 504 certifications, and suspicious activity model design and refinement. The ideal candidate can work with large data sets to ensure that Compliance teams have the necessary information available to support policy development and decision-making. 

    This includes understanding regulatory requirements, applying them to financial services business models, designing systems, incorporating data effectively, and ensuring the effective execution of programs. This will also include creating and executing the periodic and ongoing tuning methodology for monitoring systems. 

    You will enjoy working with some of the richest data sets in the world and the ability to see your insights turned into real world impact.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Project manage and/or support on a range of client delivery, as part of an on-site or remote project team 
    • Conduct effective meetings, liaising with Compliance, Data Science and Engineering, and Operations/Management teams 
    • Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups
    • Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
    • Design financial intelligence systems and develop data requirements, working with Compliance teams as well as Data Scientists and Engineers 
    • Apply expertise in systems and data analysis, data mining, and data visualization to see beyond the numbers and generate insights that influence the strategy for Compliance teams 
    • Utilize a deep background of data structures and sources to identify relevant data sets and build dashboards and reports to show key performance/risk indicators 
    • Oversee and maintain data integrations of key systems, architecture, and compliance vendors
    • Use analysis to identify trends and opportunities for improvements and efficiencies across compliance programs and systems 
    • Create and maintain documentation on pipelines, tools, and data sets to demonstrate program soundness 
    • Be a thought leader for data-informed initiatives and help to guide the team’s direction
    • Partner with Data Science, Policy, Legal, Product, Engineering and Operations teams to solve problems at scale
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    • 2+ years of experience performing compliance business and systems analysis and implementations 
    • Knowledge of AML Compliance, or other related financial regulations globally 
    • BA/BS in Computer Science, Math/Finance, Physics, Applied Economics, Statistics or other technical field 
    • Intermediate to advanced experience with financial crimes, SQL, Python, Excel, statistics, and data analysis 
    • Experience building requirements in a waterfall, and/or agile environment, Jira knowledge is a plus 
    • Experience manipulating and transforming data as part of systems integrations 
    • Has worked with model validation frameworks for DFS 504, and/or SR 11-7 of the Federal Reserve 
    • Experience operationalizing measurements and applying statistical analysis to evaluate process performance 
    • Ability to understand complex compliance obligations and work with the relevant teams ensure the effective functioning of financial intelligence systems 
    • Experience assessing, analyzing, and resolving complicated issues, and distill that complexity into simple and concise concepts 
    • Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance 
    • Experience communicating the results of analyses in a clear and effective manner

    Additional Information

    COMPENSATION & BENEFITS 

    • Salary + Annual Discretionary Bonus
    • Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
    • Generous time off 
    • Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents regardless of gender 
    • Future Moms Program 
    • 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday 
    • 401(k) matching
    • College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan
    • Monthly cell phone stipend 
    • Commuter Benefits 
    • Gym Reimbursement through firm medical plan

     

    OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

    Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

    Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

    • Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
    • LGBTQ+
    • Race & Ethnicity
    • Working Parents
    • Disabilities

    Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

     

    COVID-19 UPDATE

    Please note that, to the extent permitted by state and local law, Sia Partners requires all employees in this position to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. “Fully vaccinated” means that the individual can provide acceptable proof that the individual has received, at least fourteen (14) days prior to the individual’s start date, either both doses of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine plus all boosters recommended for you, or one dose of a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine plus all boosters recommended for you. Vaccines must be authorized and/or approved by the FDA. The Company will engage in an interactive process to determine if an exemption to this requirement as a reasonable accommodation is appropriate.

     

    HYBRID WORKPLACE GUIDELINES

    Sia Partners maintains its hybrid workplace arrangements and provides a flexible workplace environment that is driven by client and business/market needs. While our firm does support hybrid work, there are times that we may require our consultants to work onsite at one of our Sia offices or a client office full-time. Consultants are expected to have the ability to be flexible with work location depending upon business needs. When in-between client engagements, Consultants typically work onsite at a local Sia office 2+ times per week.

    To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.

    Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs. 

  • Locations
    San Francisco, CA • New York, NY