Financial Crimes Compliance Modeling Analyst

Job Title:
Financial Crimes Compliance Modeling Analyst
Location:
CityScape
What you'll do:
Financial Crimes Compliance Modeling Analysts are responsible for assisting in maintaining and improving Financial Crimes Compliance analytics and technological capabilities. Under the Financial Crimes Compliance Data Analytics Manager, the Analyst supports the development of processes and technological improvements to achieve efficiencies in various workflows, and implementing and maintaining optimization of the Financial Crimes Compliance's monitoring tools, and increasing the capabilities in data visualization.
Analysts employ strong technical skills in banking systems/database technologies to understand and communicate effectively with Information Technology and Operations teams and other internal stakeholders, assisting them to understand necessary model and infrastructure requirements and solutions.
What we are looking for:
Responsibilities:

• Provides analytical and technical support for systems delivery for Financial Crimes Compliance monitoring tools. Partner with Financial Crimes Compliance Modeling Analysts in order to understand their workflow and to utilize their feedback, where appropriate, to strengthen the quality of Financial Crimes Compliance Data Analytics work product.
• Leverages technology to enable advanced analytical and data visualization techniques to improve risk detection and increase operational efficiencies. Assists with tuning and optimization of BSA and fraud detection models, transaction monitoring system, Customer Due Diligence scoring algorithm, and the Sanctions monitoring system. Supports Financial Crimes Compliance management in the development of an effective Financial Crimes Compliance model governance program, in accordance with Model Risk Management guidelines, that meets regulatory requirements.
• Participates in the development and implementation of new reporting functionality and transaction monitoring channels for Financial Crimes Compliance analytics purposes. Creates professional program/reporting documentation in support of Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring and related reporting. Provides timely responses to ad- hoc data requests from Financial Crimes Compliance and other internal departments.
• Assists in the design and governance of Financial Crimes Compliance monitoring systems (transaction, Customer Risk Rating, Sanctions) to ensure adequate controls are in place. Serve as liaison to Information Technology, Risk Management, and Operations to mitigate compliance risk and ensure audit soundness.
• Independently identifies opportunities for risk coverage enhancements and proactively provides technical solutions including data extraction, data manipulation, and automated dashboarding to provide insights to leadership

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from a college or university and/or equivalent work experience in Fraud or Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering or related experience in financial services data analysis and systems technologies.
• 2+ years of experience in Transaction Monitoring program development, implementation and validating systems/controls is preferred
• Model Validation experience with Financial Institutions is preferred
• Intermediate knowledge of general banking, including an understanding of bank products, services, regulations, policies, and procedures, with an emphasis on Fraud knowledge. Senior Analysts possess Advanced Expert knowledge in this area.
• Demonstrated use and intermediate knowledge of SQL and/or SAS in a professional environment
• Experience using Power BI and/or Tableau in a professional environment
• Experience testing and validating SQL and/or SAS code and resulting data sets
• Experience working in a regulated environment
• Ability to demonstrate an intermediate proficiency in SQL and/or SAS to extract and manipulate data
• Strong interpersonal abilities, including oral and written communication skills with beginning to intermediate-level experience in writing technical documents for diverse audiences.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
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