Risk Analysis Analyst - Market Behavior Analytics

Job Description:

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Job Description Summary

Bank of America’s Global Risk Management business is looking for a Risk Analysis Analyst in the Market Behavior Analytics group within Global Risk Analytics. This group is responsible for developing surveillances and other sophisticated controls over activities in our Global Markets business. These controls detect potentially suspicious activities and patterns of behavior. Building these controls requires knowledge of big data techniques, ability to architect systems that can efficiently scale to hundreds of billions of data points per day, machine learning over unstructured and structured data, graph analytics, and experience with building UI for data rich applications.

Key responsibilities include:

• Understanding financial data: schemas, flow, size, data issues, data controls, etc.

• Building performant big data pipelines that are the backbone of building large scale surveillance systems.

• Building surveillance models using sophisticated modeling techniques including machine learning and AI.

• Testing the efficacy of surveillances using advanced modeling techniques.

Required Skills:

• Successful candidates will have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related disciplines.

• Ability to analyze and find interesting patterns in data with at least one of the following:

• Implement distributed algorithms on large amounts of data using Big Data, batch and streaming technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka etc.

• Build user facing UI applications over large amounts of data using technologies like React, Angular, JavaScript etc.

• Knowledge and working experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Oracle etc. to process large scale data.

• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively communicate quantitative topics to technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to effectively present findings, data, and conclusions to members of the team and management.

• Ability to operate independently with guidance to deliver sub tasks and the ability to participate in group settings.

• 0-2 years of relevant experience in software engineering in Quantitative Finance or other industries.

Preferred skills:

• Knowledge and experience in machine learning / AI models

• Knowledge and experience with financial data sets

• Ability to code proficiently in at least one programming language like Python or Java.

• Proficiency in SQL and in at least one NoSQL data store.

Responsible for performing database management, analysis and modeling that maximizes profits and asset growth and minimizes credit and operating losses and other risk exposure. Provides data/ IM, analytical support to senior associates or managers on various product strategies to ensure company goals are met. Coordinates the production of databases, performance reports for Senior mgt. Reviews and analyzes trends in current population distributions and recommends strategies. May focus on combination of data management, programming models to extract data and use databases to provide statistical and financial modeling. Analyzes databases/IM design, portfolio trends, concerning credit score cutoffs, loss trends, portfolio dynamics, and bureau scoring criteria. Programming experience like SQL, SAS and/or Micro Strategy experience preferred; 0-2 year experience.

Skills:

• Attention to Detail

• Business Intelligence

• Data and Trend Analysis

• Risk Analytics