Senior Data Science Consultant | Compliance

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

Sia Partners is looking for a talented Senior Data Scientist to support our activities within the Data Science Business Unit. You will be working alongside our Data Science consultants and our clients on Data Science topics, including data acquisition and exploration, creating relevant data models and presenting results to stakeholders. 

You will also contribute to internal Data Science projects hosted on Heka, our internal accelerator for Data Science projects. As part of the global Data Science team you will contribute to the development of various solutions designed to address our clients’ needs. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Partner with our client’s leadership teams, engineers, program managers and data analysts to understand data needs. 
• Identify, acquire, process and explore relevant data sources. 
• Analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured information to discover trends and patterns. 
• Use your data analytics and science expertise to derive valuable insights from datasets, build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms. 
• Communicate at scale, through multiple mediums: presentations, dashboards, datasets, bots and more. 
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges. 
• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams. 
• Broad range of partners equates to a broad range of projects and deliverables, including Models, algorithms, datasets, measurements, services, tools and process. 
• Collaborate with compliance teams to ensure data models and algorithms meet regulatory requirements and best practices related to financial crimes. 
• Integrate and apply knowledge of sanction screening and transaction monitoring platforms in data analytics to improve the detection and prevention of financial crimes. 
• Ensure alignment of data science activities with the compliance standards, particularly focusing on financial crimes, sanctions, and other regulatory requirements. 

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst 
• Experience with building models, machine-learning, NLP 
• 4+ years’ experience in R, SQL and Python 
• 4+ years’ experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBi, R Shiny) 
• Problem-solving aptitude and business acumen 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 
• BSc/BA in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering 
• Proven experience in working with compliance data, particularly in the areas of financial crimes, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring. 
• Awareness and understanding of regulatory requirements and best practices in the field of Compliance and Financial crimes. 

Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits 

• Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific market location, role, skill set and level/years of experience 
• Annual Salary is between $128,100.00 and $145,900.00 annually.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vi