Lead Quantitative Analyst

United Nations Federal Credit Union•Long Island City, NY

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About The Position

Develop, maintain, and enhance quantitative frameworks that support balance sheet management, enterprise capital planning, stress testing, and CECL modeling as UNFCU matures as a Tier 1 Credit Union with more than $10 billion in total assets. Translate complex financial, economic, and member-level data into actionable insights for strategic decision-making, risk management, forecasting, and regulatory requirements. Lead the design and validation of quantitative models, scenario analyses, forecasting methodologies, and data-driven processes to assess capital adequacy, credit risk, earnings performance, and balance sheet resilience under varying economic conditions. Ensure the integrity, transparency, and governance of key analytical processes, and strengthen the organization’s ability to meet regulatory, risk-management, and reporting expectations. Serve as a subject-matter expert and internal owner for data integrity in Finance, partnering with technology and business stakeholders to ensure systems produce reliable, controlled results. The position is hybrid or remote. The role also supports UNFCU’s mission, values, and guiding principles by providing an exceptional service experience to colleagues and members and demonstrating service excellence behaviors. It includes responsibility for compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations and UNFCU’s Code of Ethics & Business Conduct.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative discipline.
7–10 years of experience in financial analysis, quantitative analysis, data analytics, financial systems, business intelligence, or a related field.
Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting concepts, financial reporting, and financial data.
Strong SQL skills and the ability to query, manipulate, validate, and reconcile data from multiple sources.
Experience with software implementations, system upgrades, user acceptance testing, or business requirements gathering.

Nice To Haves

Strong quantitative and financial skills and a deep understanding of data architecture, business systems, reporting environments, data validation, process controls, and software implementation.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, and financial modeling.
Experience working with databases, data warehouses, reporting platforms, or business intelligence tools.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to understand complex systems and translate technical issues into business and financial implications.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain sophisticated financial, statistical, and quantitative analyses for strategic and operational decision-making.
Develop financial models, forecasts, scenarios, sensitivity analyses, and quantitative tools to support management decisions.
Analyze financial performance, trends, forecasts, budgets, liquidity, capital, interest rate risk, profitability, and other key financial metrics.
Establish and maintain data quality standards, validation procedures, and control frameworks for financial and operational data.
Develop automated and manual data quality checks to identify missing, inaccurate, inconsistent, duplicated, or anomalous data.
Establish data validation rules and reconciliation processes across source systems, the general ledger, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and downstream systems.
Investigate data discrepancies, identify root causes, and coordinate corrective actions with business and technology teams.
Document data lineage, definitions, calculations, transformations, and ownership.
Partner with business units to establish consistent definitions for critical financial and operational data elements.
Maintain evidence and documentation to support internal controls, audits, examinations, and regulatory requirements.
Serve as Finance’s primary business owner and subject-matter expert for software applications and systems that affect the department.
Participate in requirements gathering, system design, testing, implementation, and post-implementation validation.
Develop and execute user acceptance testing (UAT) plans for Finance-related systems and changes.
Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.
Comply with federal and state laws and regulations and UNFCU’s Code of Ethics & Business Conduct.
Uphold UNFCU’s mission, core values, and guiding principles through consistent demonstration of service excellence behaviors.