Senior Business Analytics & Reporting Manager - BSA/AML (hybrid Buffalo, NY)

M&T Bank • Buffalo, NY

4d • $107,500 - $179,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Analytics & Reporting Manager provides strategic direction and management for planning, developing, and implementing projects and initiatives supporting the department or division. The role typically manages complex, critical, and highly visible projects at the division or bank-wide level, and serves as the technical authority for the reporting function.

The manager leads the development and production of complex reports, analytics, and data solutions; establishes standards for reporting, dataset design, documentation, source control, testing, and change management; and ensures solutions provide meaningful insights for business decisions. The role also oversees reporting and data environments in partnership with Technology and other teams, supports compliance and audit activities, modernizes and automates reporting capabilities, and manages departmental system support and complex issue resolution.

The position leads and develops a team of five or more direct reports, with responsibility for staffing and performance management. It is a hybrid role based in Buffalo, New York. The stated annual pay range is $107,500 to $179,100.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of related business-line experience, or, in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years of higher education and/or work experience.
• At least 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience.
• Experience or technical expertise sufficient to guide reporting work involving SQL Server, relational databases, database connectivity, and linked-server architecture.
• Will manage 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 analyses.
• Establish standards for reporting development, dataset design, technical documentation, and sustainable solution delivery.
• Perform complex analysis, data review, research, and reconciliation; interpret results and present findings to inform strategic decisions.
• Provide technical and analytical direction on data sources, methodologies, and solution approaches.
• Ensure reporting solutions deliver meaningful insights, identify trends and anomalies, and support management decisions.
• Maintain expert understanding of business functions, processes, operations, market trends, data architecture, reporting platforms, and technology ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for 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 potential performance and design concerns.
• Promote sound data architecture, 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 develop procedures and controls related to compliance requirements, and ensure practices align with data governance, information security, change-management, and risk-control requirements.
• Define and participate in achieving short- and long-term business objectives; oversee budget, P&L, or other business reporting as applicable; analyze variances and recommend efficiency and cost improvements.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and automate reporting, remove redundant processes and datasets, and improve scalability and efficiency.
• 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, readiness, and production transition.
• Act as lead for departmental system support, coordinating with business partners, vendors, and Technology.
• Oversee resolution of complex reporting, database, data-quality, connectivity, and performance issues, ensuring root causes and sustainable corrective actions are addressed.
• Coach and direct team members, developing their technical and analytical skills in areas such as SQL, data analysis, dataset design, source control, reporting technologies, automation, and emerging data capabilities.
• Provide strategic direction for reporting architecture, data solutions, development standards, source control, automation, and solution design while partnering with teams responsible for underlying infrastructure and platforms.
• Exercise managerial authority concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, and terminations.
• Adhere to applicable compliance and operational risk controls and M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of audit and regulator issues as applicable.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager