Quantitative Research Analyst Jobs in Atlanta, GA

INTRODUCTION

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ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This job is responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects for specific business units or risk types. Key responsibilities include developing new models, analytic processes, or systems approaches, creating technical documentation for related activities, and working with Technology staff in the design of systems to run models developed. Job expectations include having a broad knowledge of financial markets and products.

• Design and develop traditional and advanced statistical and machine learning (Neural Network, XGBoost, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine etc.) models to detect financial crimes and money laundering activities in bank products and channels.
• Perform large scale data mining and pattern recognition on complex, high-dimensional datasets using SQL, SAS and Python to identify suspicious behaviors and transaction anomalies.
• Perform ongoing monitoring and model maintenance to ensure model performance, data integrity and co-efficient stability to maintain model compliance.
• Conduct internet and external research to understand evolving scenarios in global financial crimes and leverage those findings in feature engineering i.e., to identify variables and its transformations to be used in new model development (E.g., Transaction velocity, relative transaction volume etc.).
• Work (support and lead) with cross-functional team of data scientists, compliance experts and technologists to build cutting-edge analytical solutions that strengthen the bank's financial crime detection framework.
• Understand and execute activities that form the end-to-end model development and use life cycle.
• Ensure model governance and regulatory compliance by preparing thorough documentation, support model validation, remediate validation findings and facilitate audits aligned with FinCen, OCC and FRB guidelines.
• Drive innovation in AML model development by evaluating emerging AI/ML techniques, exploring external data sources, and contributing to strategic roadmap planning for money laundering detection capabilities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or equivalent in Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or related: and 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related Quantitative occupation.
• Must include 3 years of experience in each of the following:
• Developing predictive risk models for fraud and AML detection leveraging machine learning techniques such as deep learning using Python libraries (scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, TensorFlow/Pytorch, featuretools, NetworkX etc), SAS, and SQL based feature extraction;
• Designing, training, and validating supervised and unsupervised statistical and machine learning models specifically for financial crime detection;
• Extracting, transforming, and analyzing large-scale, complex datasets with a focus on identifying transaction anomalies and suspicious behavioral patterns using Pandas, NumPy, Spark/PySpark;
• Analyzing multi-dimensional datasets to extract actionable insights for AML monitoring, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention using Python, R, SQL, Spark, Hadoop, and develop dashboards in data visualization tools like Tableau/Power BI; and,
• Utilizing expertise in global money laundering trends, including structuring, rapid fund movement, and check sequencing, and recognizing transactional patterns and behavioral indicators associated with illicit financial activity.
• Employer will accept pre or post Masters degree experience.
• 10% domestic travel, as necessary.

SHIFT

1st shift (United States of America)

HOURS PER WEEK

40

EMPLOYER: Bank of America N.A.