Vice President, Data Analytics Manager

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation•Jersey City, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group with a 400-year history, headquartered in Tokyo. It offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance, with more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, providing commercial and investment banking services to corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. The Data Analytics Manager role, reporting to the Data Analytics Director, FCC Analytics, in the Compliance Department, Americas Division, involves performing detailed and independent analytics work to support the Compliance Analytics group's goals. This includes the collection, aggregation, analysis, and visualization of customer, product, and transaction data, developing reports for SMBC Americas Division and Head Office stakeholders, and performing analysis to support the design, implementation, and enhancement of BSA/AML tools and systems, including KYC and AML transaction monitoring.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, or other related field).
7 to 10 years of BSA/AML/OFAC compliance experience, particularly with data, platforms, and data management.
Strong reasoning ability and analytical skills.
Ability to transform Compliance business problems and requirements into analytics work product.
Ability to develop work product independently and in a fluid environment.
BSA/AML compliance experience, particularly with data, platforms, and data management.
Knowledge of analytics regarding customer onboarding, customer due diligence, and/or periodic reviews.
Knowledge of vendor BSA/AML transaction monitoring systems
Experience with some or all of the following technologies to build analysis and drive insights from data: Database: Oracle (PL/SQL), Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL), Analytics tools: R, Python, Reporting tools: PowerBI, Excel, Azure
Experience with SharePoint and Microsoft Office suite.
Maintains high level of confidentiality, unquestionable character, integrity and professionalism.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with RegTech is a plus.
ACAMS certified or other equivalent industry certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Collect, aggregate, analyze, and visualize customer, product, and transaction data to identify trends and evaluate changes of customer, product, and transactional risk exposure.
Develop MIS reports for submission to senior Branch management.
Apply data from BSA/AML Compliance Department stakeholders to translate qualitative risk factors into responsive risk models that leverage new technology.
Liaise with and support stakeholder teams to oversee and perform periodic model tuning exercises.
Work with Japan Research Institute-America partners to develop and test tools, systems, and system changes in line with policy and regulatory expectations.
Apply economic, quantitative, and statistical skills in the development of tools and systems.
Develop knowledge of new analytical techniques and data sources that provide ongoing risk mitigation, and how emerging data and technology issues may impact the achievement of BSA/AML Compliance Department’s objectives.