Cons Prod Strategic Analyst IV- DSG Strategy Validation

Bank of America•Newark, NJ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, the Cons Prod Strategic Analyst IV serves as a technical subject matter expert within Retail Credit Operations, Credit Assistance Decision Strategy Governance (DSG). The role specializes in developing, validating, and optimizing Monitoring & Tracking (M&T) performance reporting used to evaluate collections strategy and metric performance across products. It requires expertise in data sources and lineage, product structures, strategy logic, metric definitions, and reporting methodologies supporting DSG. The analyst partners with Strategy Owners and Credit Risk to ensure accurate, sustainable performance reporting, troubleshoot complex data and reporting issues, and strengthen performance monitoring and controls. The position also provides technical leadership and mentorship to less-tenured analysts. The broader role performs complex analysis to improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting, and operational performance, and supports strategic improvements and large-scale projects.

Requirements

Advanced SAS programming expertise, including complex data manipulation, joins, macro programming, query optimization, and data validation.
Strong knowledge of large-scale data environments, including Hadoop, Teradata, SQL Server, and Oracle.
Experience developing, validating, and supporting complex performance or risk reporting across large datasets.
Strong data lineage, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, and technical problem-solving capabilities.
Ability to understand complex product and strategy logic and translate business requirements into accurate, maintainable reporting solutions.
Strong attention to detail, with an emphasis on data quality, reporting accuracy, repeatability, and controls.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex priorities in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
Strong communication, collaboration, leadership, and mentoring skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Bank of America data sources, collection business products, and operational processes.
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
SAS certifications.

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and optimize advanced SAS and SQL programs supporting Monitoring & Tracking performance reporting across collection products and strategies.
Serve as a technical subject matter expert on DSG data sources, data lineage, products, strategies, metric logic, and reporting processes.
Validate reporting logic and reconcile results to source data to ensure reports accurately reflect approved strategy and business requirements.
Perform root-cause analysis of data anomalies and reporting discrepancies, including issues involving source data, strategy logic, metric calculations, coding, and upstream or downstream dependencies.
Assess reporting impacts resulting from changes to strategies, products, data sources, or metric requirements.
Maintain code documentation, data lineage, metric definitions, and validation procedures to support governance and knowledge transfer.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to analysts in SAS/SQL programming, data analysis, troubleshooting, and business acumen.
Analyze financial models, market and financial data, and portfolio trends to improve portfolio risk, profitability, performance forecasting, and operational performance.
Identify business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions and communicate findings to senior management.
Support large-scale projects, such as platform conversions or new project integrations, through advanced reporting and analytics-based insights.
Collaborate with business counterparts and partner organizations, including Risk and Product teams.
If assigned managerial responsibilities, model inclusion; promote process, data, and operational excellence; communicate enterprise decisions; manage risk; coach employees; steward budgets; develop talent; and drive business outcomes.