Compliance Officer, Global Data Insights and Analytics, Vice President

MUFG • Irving, TX

100d • $116,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. Reporting into the Manager of the Global Financial Crimes Division’s (GFCD) Data Insights and Analytics - Intelligence Delivery (DIA-ID) team, this new position has been created for the purpose of supporting analytic capabilities of DIA-ID. This is a global position that will work closely with regional DIA and Intelligence and Analytics teams located in the Americas, Asia, EMEA and Japan. This position will be responsible for supporting a team that provides a consistent and cohesive intelligence and analytics capability covering all financial crime risk taxonomies across all products, branches and entities where MUFG operates. The DIA-ID team supports financial crimes investigations through the creation of actionable intelligence. This intelligence is developed via data capture, conditioning, and enrichment; analytical methods such as descriptive, diagnostic, outlier detection, geospatial analysis, network analysis, and predictive analytics. This position will be responsible for the production and quality control of ad-hoc reports in support of GFCD teams such as Sanctions, AML Advisory, and Complex Investigations teams. Additionally, this position will be responsible for branch, country, regional, and global thematic reviews executed by Data Insights and Analytics. These products are designed to clearly communicate MUFG exposure to the global FinCrime Risk environment to senior GFCD leadership and empower decision making about risk mitigation measures. This role requires a strong skillset in descriptive and predictive analytics and modeling. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting leadership to ensure a globally consistent analytics effort that enables the proactive identification of potential financial crime risks.

Requirements

• A Master’s Degree or higher in Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or Biostatistics strongly preferred.
• Five plus (5+) years of direct engagement in business intelligence or data analytics, preferably in Financial Crime compliance, internal to MUFG, another global financial institution or FinTech firm.
• OR if lacking a Master’s Degree, a Bachelor’s Degree and seven plus (7+) years of direct engagement in business intelligence or data analytics, preferably in Financial Crime compliance, internal to MUFG, another global financial institution or FinTech firm, law enforcement or military intelligence operations.
• A background in counter threat finance, anti-money laundering, and/or sanctions compliance is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of database structures and how to query data (e.g., using SQL) from Enterprise Data Warehouses strongly preferred.
• Expert knowledge of statistics, forecasting, and predictive analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and modeling methods.
• Familiarity in working with large sets of data and synthesizing such data into analyses and insights.
• Highly skilled in communicating data needs and findings.
• Capable of producing clear and concise reports and presentations.
• A working knowledge of dashboards (mastery of MS Office Suite, Tableau, and R Markdown preferred).
• Highly proficient in R, Python, and experience developing in RStudio, Spyder, or Jupyter Notebook.
• Experience with SAS Viya and Alteryx preferred.
• Experience interacting with control function leadership and Compliance subject matter experts.
• Proven excellence in execution in complex and demanding situations.
• Collaborative with strong interpersonal communication skills.
• Systemic thinker with a global outlook.
• Capable of demonstrating an Enterprise Risk Management perspective.
• Process-oriented and a strong ability to develop appropriate program-enhancing strategies.
• Detail-oriented and organized execution.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in programming languages such as R and/or Python.
• Proficiency with analytical tools and software including SAS, Alteryx Designer/Server, SQL Server, Oracle, Power BI, or Tableau preferred.
• Thorough understanding of an effective financial crimes risk management framework.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization, including Bank staff, management, directors, and regulators.
• Ability to work autonomously and initiate and prioritize own work.
• Ability to work with teams of project managers.
• Solid judgment, strong negotiating skills, and a practical approach to implementation – including knowledge of Bank systems.
• Ability to balance regulatory requirements with the best interests of the Bank and its customers.

Responsibilities

• Support the identification and implementation of diagnostic and predictive analytics to be leveraged and applied globally.
• Analyze large and disparate structured and unstructured datasets to create statistical models to identify known and emerging financial crime risks, network activity, and develop risk segmentation strategies.
• Analyze and interpret data to identify significant differences in relationships among sources of information.
• Create and standardize data visualization techniques to communicate findings and provide support to financial crimes investigations.
• Coordinate with regional Intelligence & Analytics teams to implement the global operating model.
• Work collaboratively across functional teams within GFCD to ensure effective and efficient operations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Retirement plans.
• Educational assistance and training programs.
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities.
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave.
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Master's degree