Data Quantitative Analyst Lead

OVERVIEW:

Manages and participates in the manipulation of data to conduct complex statistical analysis to understand and quantify business problems. Develops materials to refine and explain analysis results and their business impact. Direct leadership of assigned Data Quantitative team.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and participate in Data Quantitative team analysis, ensuring business needs are met.  
• Manage and participate in exploring, mining and profiling data across multiple large complex datasets to gain and interpret insights for use in statistical and quantitative analytics.
• Conduct, review and approve complex data manipulation and analysis with common programming languages. Consolidate results for business consumption and draft recommendations for business decisions.
• Conduct complex quantitative analysis to understand and quantify business problems leveraging statistical methods.
• Modify data warehouses as necessary; document and store code to enable higher speed to impact.
• Develop simple visualizations to explain data. Consolidate exhibits and supporting materials for sharing analysis results with senior business leaders.
• Collaborate with Principal Data Quantitative Analyst to identify opportunities to leverage statistical solutions to solve business problems.
• Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management and terminations.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite.  Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.  Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years of related experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years higher education and/ or work experience, including a minimum of 7 years related experience
• Minimum of 2 years managerial, supervisory and/or work leadership experience
• Experience managing and analyzing large data sets and explaining results of analysis through concise written and verbal communication as well as charts/graphs
• Familiarity with common programming languages
• Experience working in large databases

IDEAL QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED:

• 8 or more years related work experience in data analysis
• Expert skills in programming languages such as SQL, SAS, Python, Julia or Java
• Experience working with statistical analysis software
• Experience with one or more cloud databases
• Experience working within an agile environment
• Experience in quantitative finance or a related field, analyzing large and complex data sets, data reliability analysis, quality controls and data processing 
• Understanding risk management practices and/or procedures
• Experience applying numerical methods; Monte Carlo simulations and/ or statistical hypotheses testing
• Experience using banking-book products, risk analytics for credit portfolio wholesale stress testing, and/or credit risk modelling

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $141,158.46 - $235,264.10 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

LocationBridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America