Senior Regulatory Compliance Data Analyst / Project Manager – GRC Connectivity & Regulatory Change Management
About The Position
This contract role supports a Regulatory Change Management (RCM) function within a broader Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) transformation initiative at a global financial institution. The position coordinates regulatory connectivity work across Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, Technology, and business operations, with a focus on strengthening regulatory traceability, improving data integrity, and linking regulatory requirements to enterprise risk and control frameworks. The role combines project management and hands-on data analysis. It involves managing program plans and governance materials, analyzing and validating regulatory and compliance datasets, documenting regulatory mappings, coordinating stakeholder working sessions and UAT, and reporting implementation progress and data quality. The position is a hybrid opportunity based in Jersey City, New Jersey, and is offered as a W2 contract assignment; C2C and 1099 arrangements are not accepted.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in banking or financial services supporting regulatory, compliance, risk management, data governance, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
- 7–10 years of relevant experience in banking regulatory compliance, GRC, governance, legal, or related risk and control functions.
- Strong understanding of regulatory compliance frameworks and relationships among regulations, obligations, policies, risks, controls, testing, issues, and remediation.
- Demonstrated experience supporting regulatory connectivity, GRC mapping, regulatory lineage, or comparable traceability initiatives.
- Project management capabilities including integrated planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk escalation, and executive-level reporting.
- Business analysis experience involving requirements gathering, process mapping, workflow evaluation, documentation, and solution validation.
- Expert-level Microsoft Excel proficiency, including advanced data analysis, reconciliation, reporting, and management information development.
- Hands-on experience evaluating complex datasets, investigating data quality issues, identifying mapping inconsistencies, and coordinating remediation.
- Proficiency with enterprise reporting and analytical technologies such as Power BI, SharePoint, SQL, Databricks, or comparable tools.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to work across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Technology, Operations, and external partners.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Highly organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable balancing hands-on data analysis with cross-functional project delivery.
Nice To Haves
- Experience within a U.S.-regulated foreign banking organization (FBO), Intermediate Holding Company (IHC), or Bank Holding Company (BHC).
- Previous experience supporting strategic transformation programs with a leading consulting firm.
- Master's degree or MBA.
Responsibilities
- Drive regulatory connectivity initiatives by coordinating project activities, deliverables, stakeholders, and implementation milestones across the RCM program.
- Establish and maintain project plans, dependency trackers, RAID logs, action registers, implementation schedules, and governance reporting.
- Analyze and validate regulatory and compliance datasets, identifying inconsistencies, incomplete relationships, duplicate records, and data-quality improvement opportunities.
- Support development and validation of end-to-end regulatory traceability across regulations, obligations, policies, business processes, risks, controls, testing, issues, and remediation activities.
- Facilitate working sessions with Compliance, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders to define, validate, and document regulatory connectivity relationships.
- Perform data reconciliation, quality assessments, mapping reviews, and remediation tracking to improve GRC information accuracy and completeness.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into implementation plans, process documentation, and validated connectivity mappings.
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), business validation, defect management, and implementation readiness activities.
- Develop Excel-based analytical models, management reports, dashboards, and tracking solutions to show program progress and data quality.
- Use reporting and collaboration platforms such as Power BI, SharePoint, SQL, and other enterprise data tools to improve operational efficiency and management reporting.
- Communicate implementation status, key risks, dependencies, and remediation progress to senior stakeholders and maintain alignment across participating teams.
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