Senior Manager, Specialty Compliance and Ethics, Data Analytics - Financial Services Compliance

Position Summary...

The Senior Manager, Data Analytics - Financial Services Compliance will help support financial service crimes compliance in the domain of risk coverage assessments and support model risk management activities. This includes leveraging data analysis techniques for building out product, country, and market risk coverage assessments and testing and validation of the entity resolution and transaction monitoring model output by developing effective scalable strategies, applying statistical analysis, using data analytics tools and technologies, all while working in an environment of continuous improvement and model optimization.

What you'll do...

***This position will be located at our beautiful new home office in Bentonville, AR. https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/01/17/the-future-of-better-begins-here-welcome-to-walmarts-new-home-office.  Relocation assistance is available***

The Senior Manager, Data Analytics - Financial Services Compliance will collaborate with cross-functional teams including Compliance, Risk, and IT to ensure alignment and support for entity resolution and transaction monitoring initiatives, support statistical modeling and analysis by processing large amounts of data, present findings through data visualization tools, and work with third party providers or internal teams to oversee champion and challenger model comparison testing and tuning efforts and memorializing model selection rationales and supporting metrics and truth sets.  The Senior Manager will provide analysis on model output, support the ongoing end user feedback process, and ensure model documentation is maintained and updated as required.

• Collaborate cross functionally with end user groups to understand use cases and convert end user feedback into usable model training data.

• Procure and merge data from different relational databases to perform comparative testing of BSA models.

• Research and analyze data subsets for root cause analysis and interpretability or to create hypotheses for larger scale data analysis and model optimization.

• Perform ongoing monitoring of all active anti-financial crime models to review performance and escalate concerns.

• Create statistically representative samples and perform analysis through Above the Line and Below the Line testing to ensure that models are effective and functioning properly.

• Research and recommend new detection, interdiction, forecasting, and other model approaches through analysis efforts.

• Develop and recommend model changes to monitor and address new financial crime typologies and emerging risks.

• Maintain a coverage assessment to ensure red flags/typologies are addressed through monitoring efforts or other appropriate controls.

• Maintain entity resolution model documentation including all sub-models, versioning, testing/tuning results, truth set data, labeled data, and approvals.

• Leverage  advanced data analytics techniques and tools, including name similarity matching, classification accuracy testing,  unsupervised/supervised machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic matching, decision trees, etc.

What you’ll bring…

• Prior experience with entity resolution/KYC models and transaction monitoring engines.

• Experience using Featurespace and/or Quantexa system applications.

• Strong knowle