Business Analytics Manager Visa Sponsorship Jobs in New York

Overview:

Responsible for providing the strategic direction and management of the planning, development and implementation of various projects and initiatives in support of department or division. Typically will manage the most complex, critical and highly visible projects at both the division and/or bank-wide level.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage the development and production of high-complexity departmental reports, analytics, and data solutions, including but not limited to project or product strategy analysis, historical reporting, workflow analysis, and financial analysis.
• Establish standards for reporting development, dataset design, technical documentation, and sustainable solution delivery.
• Perform highly complex analysis and judgment-based work over a standard discipline or range of disciplines to support business decisions.
• Provide technical and analytical direction to the team in determining appropriate data sources, methodologies, and solution approaches.
• Perform highly complex data review, research, and/or reconciliation.
• Interpret results and present findings to make or influence strategic decisions within the department or division.
• Ensure reporting solutions move beyond data delivery to provide meaningful insights, identify trends and anomalies, and support management decision-making.
• Demonstrate a thorough and expert understanding of the business and its functions, processes, and operations.
• Keep abreast of business and market trends that may affect the business/department.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the department's underlying data architecture, reporting platforms, and technology ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for departmental reporting and data environments, partnering with Technology, database administration, infrastructure, and data engineering teams to ensure appropriate architecture, connectivity, access, performance, resiliency, and support.
• Maintain sufficient technical expertise in SQL Server, relational databases, database connectivity, and linked-server architecture to effectively guide the reporting team, evaluate proposed solutions, identify potential performance or design concerns, and engage Technology partners on technical decisions.
• Drive sound data architecture practices across the reporting function, including data lineage, source-to-report traceability, reusable data structures, performance optimization, documentation, and appropriate separation of development, test, and production environments.
• Establish and oversee source-control and development practices using Git-based repositories, ensuring SQL scripts, database objects, reporting logic, configuration, documentation, and other applicable technical artifacts are appropriately version-controlled, traceable, and governed.
• Establish appropriate development, testing, peer-review, change-management, and implementation standards for reporting and data solutions to improve quality, maintainability, resiliency, and control.
• Take a lead role in setting policy or developing and overseeing the implementation of procedures or controls related to compliance requirements within overall business processes.
• Ensure reporting and data development practices align with applicable data governance, information security, change-management, and risk-control requirements.
• Define and participate in the achievement of short- and long-term business objectives.
• May oversee budget, P&L, and other business reporting.
• Analyze variances and report to leadership.
• Make recommendations on variances and methods to increase efficiency and lower costs.
• Implement recommendations upon management approval.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and automate reporting capabilities, eliminate redundant processes and datasets, and improve the efficiency and scalability of the reporting environment.
• Take a lead role in supporting departmental audits, including user recertifications and compliance testing.
• Manage and facilitate the planning, testing, and implementation of new projects, systems, products, and regulatory changes impacting the department.
• Provide oversight of technical design, data requirements, testing strategies, implementation readiness, and production transition for reporting-related solutions.
• Act as lead for departmental system support, coordinating with internal business partners, vendors, and Technology to address issues for the department.
• Provide functional system expertise through the Division up to the Bank.
• Lead or oversee resolution of complex reporting, database, data-quality, connectivity, and performance issues, ensuring root causes and sustainable corrective actions are identified.
• Provide coaching, direction, and leadership to team members in order to achieve business results.
• Develop the team's technical and analytical capabilities, including SQL, data analysis, dataset design, source control, reporting technologies, automation, and emerging data capabilities.
• Serve as the technical authority for the reporting function, providing strategic direction on reporting architecture, data solutions, development standards, source control, automation, and solution design while partnering with Technology teams that own and support the underlying infrastructure and platforms.
• Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management, and terminations.
• Adhere to applicable compliance/operational risk controls in accordance with Company or regulatory standards and policies.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging 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.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

Will manage a team of 5 or more direct reports

Experience and Education Required:

Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years related business line experience, OR in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years higher education and/or work experience.

A minimum of 2 years of leadership/supervisory experience

M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $107,500.00 - $179,100.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.

Location

Buffalo, New York, United States of America