Manager, AML Analytics

Job Description:

Role Title: Manager, AML Analytics (L09)

Company Overview:

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.  

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India's Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India's Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.  

• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.  

• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview:

Synchrony's Risk Team provides independent oversight of Synchrony's risk-taking activities to ensure safety and soundness, meet regulatory and legal requirements, and manage risks to the risk-appetite of the Board. Risk is responsible for independently assessing, quantifying, and overseeing risks & providing effective challenge. Risk serves as Synchrony's Second Line of Defense.   

Overall, Risk Team oversees and manages the Risk Program to support the business in anticipating and addressing risks, issues and challenges. Results are consistent with the respective strategic uses and complying with related overall risk, risk testing policies, standards, procedures as well as regulations. Our Risk organization consists of 4 pillars: Compliance, Credit & Financial Risk, Enterprise Risk and Operational Risk. Each of the pillars play a vital role in managing Risk and supports the business in anticipating and addressing risks, issues, and challenges.

Role Summary/Purpose:

The Manager, AML Analytics (L9) will be primarily responsible for providing reporting and analytics solutions for the AML/BSA/OFAC compliance function. This individual will work directly with stakeholders from Compliance to design and build analytical tools and techniques that will help the Risk organization proactively identify risks and monitor them through reporting. The role will report into the Enterprise Risk Analytics Team in India, which rolls up into Synchrony Financial India.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze complex data sets from a variety of data sources and develop and maintain reporting analytics solutions for BSA / AML / OFAC function.

• Become a subject matter expert in AML/BSA/OFAC data and an Analytics Athlete that includes end-to-end functional learning, leveraging a variety of data warehouses and applying necessary tools for solutions based on data mining, visualization, automation and machine learning techniques.

• Collaborate and engage with all levels of management including senior leaders to provide analytics-based insights

• Engage in storytelling with the data, deliver insights & recommendations to leadership for data-driven decision making; monitor KPIs and performance metrics to evaluate ongoing risk based programs/assessments.

• Use data and analytics to help support the closure of critical, time-sensitive projects such as regulatory requests and matters requiring attention (MRA)

• Innovate data driven solutions independently with enterprise-wide customers across both the first and second lines of defense by leveraging the latest analytical tools and technologies; identify areas of improvement across business processes using data.

• Participate in the Risk Engagement Strategy process that will develop and drive improvements across the Risk Team.

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline with 2-4 years of relevant experience in analytics and in lieu of a degree 4-6 years of analytics experience required.

• 2+ years' hands-on experience with Tableau

• 2+ years' hands-on experience with one or more data analytics tools like SAS/SQL, Python, Hadoop, etc.

• Strong written/oral communication skills.

• Proven ability to deliver Analytical solutions for Business problems.

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Bachelor's Degree in a STEM related or Business field.

• Experience in consumer credit/risk analytics role

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, organize workflow, and prioritize work assignments

• Experience in AML/BSA domain.

• Working knowledge and experience with GenAI in workspace

• Commercially effective and collaborative across teams and functions

• Intermediate EXCEL skill-set

Eligibility Criteria:

Bachelor's degree in any discipline with 2-4 years of relevant experience in analytics and in lieu of a degree 4-6 years of analytics experience required.

Work Timings:

This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details. 

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday.

• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, LPP)

• L4 to L7 Employees who have completed 12 months in the organization and 12 months in their current role and level are only eligible.

• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in their current role and level are only eligible.

• L04+ Employees can apply.

Grade/Level: 09

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