Senior Business Analytics & Reporting Manager - BSA/AML (hybrid Buffalo, NY)
About The Position
Responsible for providing strategic direction and managing the planning, development, and implementation of projects and initiatives in support of a department or division. The role typically manages the most complex, critical, and highly visible projects at the division or bank-wide level. It provides technical authority for the reporting function, guiding reporting architecture, data solutions, development standards, source control, automation, and solution design while partnering with Technology teams that own and support underlying infrastructure and platforms. The manager leads development and production of complex reports, analytics, and data solutions; establishes standards and controls for data and reporting development; and interprets findings to support strategic decisions. The position oversees departmental reporting and data environments, technical design, testing, implementation readiness, production transition, and system support. It also leads audits and compliance-related work, manages projects and regulatory changes, resolves complex technical issues, and develops the capabilities of a team of five or more direct reports. The role is based in Buffalo, New York, with a hybrid work arrangement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of related business-line experience, or a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or work experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
- The role manages a team of 5 or more direct reports.
Responsibilities
- Manage the development and production of high-complexity departmental reports, analytics, and data solutions, including strategy, historical, workflow, and financial analysis.
- Establish standards for reporting development, dataset design, technical documentation, and sustainable solution delivery.
- Perform complex analysis, research, data review, and reconciliation to support business decisions.
- Provide technical and analytical direction on data sources, methodologies, and solution approaches.
- Interpret results and present findings to inform or influence strategic decisions.
- Ensure reporting provides meaningful insights, identifies trends and anomalies, and supports management decision-making.
- Maintain expert knowledge of the business, its functions and processes, and relevant business and market trends.
- Oversee departmental reporting and data environments in partnership with Technology, database administration, infrastructure, and data engineering teams.
- Guide technical decisions involving SQL Server, relational databases, database connectivity, and linked-server architecture; assess proposed solutions and potential performance or design concerns.
- Promote sound data architecture practices, including lineage, source-to-report traceability, reusable data structures, performance optimization, documentation, and separation of development, test, and production environments.
- Establish and oversee Git-based source-control practices for SQL scripts, database objects, reporting logic, configuration, documentation, and other technical artifacts.
- Establish development, testing, peer-review, change-management, and implementation standards for reporting and data solutions.
- Lead or oversee policies, procedures, and controls related to compliance requirements and ensure development practices align with data governance, information security, change-management, and risk-control requirements.
- Define and participate in achieving short- and long-term business objectives; may oversee budget, P&L, and other business reporting.
- Analyze variances, report findings to leadership, recommend ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs, and implement approved recommendations.
- Identify opportunities to modernize and automate reporting, remove redundant processes and datasets, and improve efficiency and scalability.
- Lead support for departmental audits, including user recertifications and compliance testing.
- Plan, test, and implement projects, systems, products, and regulatory changes affecting the department.
- Oversee technical design, data requirements, testing strategies, implementation readiness, and production transition for reporting-related solutions.
- Lead departmental system support and coordinate with business partners, vendors, and Technology to address issues.
- Provide functional system expertise across the Division and Bank.
- Oversee resolution of complex reporting, database, data-quality, connectivity, and performance issues, identifying root causes and sustainable corrective actions.
- Coach, direct, and lead team members; develop their technical and analytical capabilities, including SQL, data analysis, dataset design, source control, reporting technologies, automation, and emerging data capabilities.
- Exercise managerial authority over staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, and terminations.
- Adhere to compliance and operational risk controls and M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of audit points and issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
