Senior Consultant / Associate Manager in Regulatory Technology & Financial Crimes

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm dedicated to creating state-of-the-art narratives for transformation and innovation and deploying them at scale. Our goal is to deliver superior value and tangible results to our clients as they navigate the digital revolution and achieve transformations which generate a positive impact. Our global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science. 

Why Join The Sia Village?

Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing

These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.

Your experience at Sia Partners will be enriched by a(n):  

• Entrepreneurial journey
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives
• Annual seminar, an in-person value-add experience, that allows you to network with colleagues throughout North America

Job Description

You will support our emerging Regulation Technology team which works alongside our Financial Crimes Advisory group assisting clients in the design and execution of various regulation technology implementations, testing, tuning, and calibration of key BSA/AML, Sanctions and Fraud systems. These include transaction monitoring, sanctions filtering tuning, above the line/below the line analysis, identification of trends and patterns, model validations including DFS 504 certifications, and suspicious activity model design and refinement. The ideal candidate can work with large data sets to ensure that Compliance teams have the necessary information available to support policy development and decision-making. 

This includes understanding regulatory requirements, applying them to financial services business models, designing systems, incorporating data effectively, and ensuring the effective execution of programs. This will also include creating and executing the periodic and ongoing tuning methodology for monitoring systems. 

You will enjoy working with some of the richest data sets in the world and the ability to see your insights turned into real world impact.

Responsibilities

• Project manage and/or support on a range of client delivery, as part of an on-site or remote project team 
• Conduct effective meetings, liaising with Compliance, Data Science and Engineering, and Operations/Management teams 
• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
• Design financial intelligence systems and develop data requirements, working with Compliance teams as well as Data Scientists and Engineers 
• Apply expertise in systems and data analysis, data mining, and data visualization to see beyond the numbers and generate insights that influence the strategy for Compliance teams 
• Utilize a deep background of data structures and sources to identify relevant data sets and build dashboards and reports to show key performance/risk indicators 
• Oversee and maintain data integrations of key systems, architecture, and compliance vendors
• Use analysis to identify trends and opportunities for improvements and efficiencies across compliance programs and systems 
• Create and maintain documentation on pipelines, tools, and data sets to demonstrate program soundness 
• Be a thought leader for data-informed initiatives and help to guide the team’s direction
• Partner with Data Science, Policy, Legal, Product, Engineering and Operations teams to solve problems at scale

Qualifications

• Management consulting experience a must
• Experience using PowerPoint to build presentations, decks, etc. needed
• 2+ years of experience performing compliance business and systems analysis and implementations 
• Knowledge of AML Compliance, or other related financial regulations globally 
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math/Finance, Physics, Applied Economics, Statistics or other techn