Business Analytics Lead

PNC Bank•Pittsburgh, PA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Business Analytics Lead in PNC's Enterprise Testing Services organization, this experienced individual-contributor role supports FGO Regulatory Reporting Transaction Testing, with a primary focus on establishing and advancing a new Conformance Testing program. The role will build a scalable, data-driven testing framework in partnership with Regulatory Reporting, FGO, Technology, and Data teams. It will use existing automation capabilities, AI-enabled tools, and targeted custom solutions to expand testing coverage, improve efficiency, and strengthen assurance over regulatory reporting processes. The initial scope covers 7 regulatory reports and 77 separate schedules and major data collections. The successful candidate combines regulatory reporting expertise, advanced data analysis, business analysis, and technical capabilities. The role involves understanding complex financial data environments, tracing data from source systems through transformations and reporting processes, evaluating reporting logic and calculations, and determining whether regulatory reporting outputs conform to established regulatory and business requirements. It also leads analytics processes across multiple functions or business units, develops data-driven solutions, advises business partners and senior management, and mentors more junior employees. The position is based in one of the following locations: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Cleveland, Ohio; Miamisburg, Ohio; or Birmingham, Alabama. PNC describes itself as an in-office company and encourages candidates to discuss workplace expectations with their recruiter and hiring manager. PNC will not provide employment visa sponsorship or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Requirements

Typically requires a university or college degree and 5 or more years of industry-relevant experience; a comparable combination of education, job-specific certifications, and experience, including military service, may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Bachelor's degree listed as the education requirement.
Strong regulatory reporting expertise, advanced data analysis, business analysis, and technical capabilities.
Ability to understand complex financial data environments and trace data through source systems, transformations, and reporting processes.
Ability to evaluate reporting logic and calculations and determine whether outputs conform to regulatory and business requirements.
Experience or capability in data analysis, data mapping, data lineage, and data transformation review.
Ability to develop and execute data-driven testing procedures using SQL and other analytical technologies.
Ability to analyze regulatory reporting requirements and translate them into test requirements, business rules, and validation criteria.
Ability to evaluate reporting system logic, calculations, configurations, and code.
Ability to investigate exceptions and perform root-cause analysis.
Ability to document testing work and communicate technical and regulatory topics to diverse audiences.
No required certification.
No required license.
No required or preferred language assessment.
PNC will not provide employment visa sponsorship or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Nice To Haves

Analytical Thinking
Business Intelligence (BI)
Concept Development
Data-Driven Decision Making
Data Integration
Market Research
Performance Metrics
Qualitative Research
Strategic Planning
Experience with automation platforms, AI-enabled tools, and custom solutions for testing automation.

Responsibilities

Help design, build, and implement a comprehensive Regulatory Reporting Conformance Testing framework, including methodologies, standards, procedures, and documentation.
Analyze regulatory reporting requirements, instructions, and interpretations and translate them into testing requirements, business rules, and data validation criteria.
Perform data analysis, mapping, lineage, and transformation reviews, tracing reported information from source systems through intermediate data environments to regulatory reporting outputs.
Assess whether data elements, transformations, mappings, calculations, and reporting logic conform to applicable regulatory instructions and defined business requirements.
Evaluate reporting system logic, calculations, configurations, and code to identify defects, inconsistencies, control weaknesses, and other conditions affecting reporting accuracy or completeness.
Develop and execute data-driven testing procedures across large financial datasets using SQL and other analytical technologies.
Use enterprise automation platforms, AI-enabled tools, and custom solutions to automate testing and increase coverage, repeatability, and efficiency.
Design testing approaches that evaluate large populations rather than relying exclusively on sample-based testing.
Develop reusable testing components, data queries, validation routines, and analytical procedures for use across reports and schedules.
Identify and investigate data quality issues, mapping discrepancies, transformation defects, reporting logic issues, and unexpected data patterns.
Perform root-cause analysis of exceptions and collaborate with business, technology, reporting, and data partners to understand upstream and downstream implications.
Evaluate the effectiveness of data governance, data quality, and regulatory reporting controls across the reporting lifecycle.
Document testing procedures, analyses, assumptions, results, exceptions, and conclusions in accordance with established testing standards.
Communicate complex technical and regulatory issues to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Partner with Regulatory Reporting, FGO, Technology, Data, and other stakeholders to enhance conformance testing capabilities and coverage.
Lead analytics processes across multiple functions or business units using complex analytical tools to create data-driven solutions.
Consult with clients and mentor consultants on tool and strategy implementation and monitoring, statistical scoring, business intelligence, data quality, and analytical product or solution development.
Determine optimal analytic approaches and support solution development, implementation, and enhancements; provide peers guidance on approaches for complex solutions.
Conceptualize, develop, and optimize analytical solutions for business leadership to support data-driven decision-making.
Analyze results, make recommendations to key business partners and senior management, and communicate conclusions from complex analytical solutions to a range of audiences.
Mentor more junior employees.
Focus on customer needs and satisfaction in business decisions and manage risks in accordance with PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Benefits

Medical and prescription drug coverage, including a Health Savings Account feature
Dental and vision options
Employee and spouse/child life insurance
Short- and long-term disability protection
401(k) with PNC match
Pension plan
Stock purchase plan
Dependent care reimbursement account
Back-up child and elder care
Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
Educational assistance, including select fully paid programs
Wellness program with financial incentives
Maternity and/or parental leave
Up to 11 paid holidays each year
9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level and years of service
Incentive-eligible compensation based on company, business, and/or individual performance