Western Union is seeking a detail-oriented, data-driven Analyst to join their Compliance Systems & Analytics team. This role involves delivering and gathering requirements for compliance templates, collaborating across various departments to meet regulatory obligations and support product modernization.
Responsibilities
- Perform detailed analysis of GSI filter calibration settings and parameters to ensure filters are operating as intended
- Assess calibration accuracy and alignment with defined business, technical, or compliance requirements
- Validates that filters are appropriately tuned to detect relevant patterns while minimizing false positives and false negatives
- Continuously monitor filter outputs to evaluate performance, stability, and effectiveness
- Conduct trend analysis and variance analyses to measure the impact of calibration changes
- Identify anomalies, deviations, or degradation in the filter over time
- Execute controlled testing of filter adjustments to confirm that performance aligns with expected outcomes
- Document calibration testing methodologies, outcomes, or over-triggering events
- Maintain detailed records of calibration activities, improvement initiatives, and key insights
- Support audit and compliance inquiries with clear data-backed calibration documentation
- Collaborate with relevant teams (operations, risk, engineering) to resolve identified issues
- Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to understand regulatory use cases, pain points, and future-state needs to meet regulatory obligations
- Collaborate with QA and UAT for various front-end groups to ensure compliance requirements are met
- Communicate and manage requirements expectations to stakeholders and external product organizations
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 1+ years in AML or comparable field with professional experience in data analysis or business intelligence
- SQL skills required, with proven experience writing complex queries, optimizing performance, and handling large datasets
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience in identifying root causes behind anomalies
- Experience working with complex systems across multiple stakeholder groups and domains
- Ability to effectively communicate business requirements to business and technical audiences
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks independently
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, especially in a cross-functional, matrixed environment
- Strong knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and preferably MS Access
- Must possess well developed interpersonal skills and be able to function well within a team-oriented environment
- Strong working knowledge of Snowflake or equivalent cloud-based data warehousing platforms preferred
- Ability to parse, query, and analyze JSON structures within analytical workflows
- Familiarity with Python for data manipulation, automation or rule performance modeling a plus
- Prefer experience in compliance including knowledge and understanding of anti-money laundering acts, laws and regulations as well as anti-money laundering issues and trends
Benefits
- Paid Time off
- Medical, Dental and Life Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Global Adoption Assistance
- 401K plan
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