Join a team transforming Risk Operations through data, analytics, and intelligent automation. In this role, you will help leaders make faster, better decisions while improving controls and reducing operational friction.
**Job summary **
As a Strategy & Data Lead in Risk Operations, you will drive the data, analytics, operational reporting, and intelligent automation agenda across strategic change and day-to-day delivery. You will own solutions end-to-end—from design through continuous improvement—delivering scalable reporting and automation that supports decision-making, control needs, and actionable insights.
**Job responsibilities **
- Deliver on-demand operational reporting and analytics to support leadership needs and project delivery
- Design, build, deploy, and continuously improve scalable reporting and analytics solutions
- Develop and maintain data workflows and analysis using SQL, Python, Alteryx, and Tableau
- Identify, lead, and oversee deployment of robotic process automation and intelligent automation solutions to reduce manual effort and error rates
- Manage intelligent automation governance and attestation activities to support control requirements
- Drive adoption of low-code solutions to enable scalable workflows and collaboration
- Modernize collaboration and reporting experiences using enterprise productivity tools
- Produce executive-ready dashboards, reporting packs, and narratives that communicate insights, progress, and risks
- Translate complex analytics into clear, action-oriented recommendations for senior leaders
- Identify and shape high-value AI and machine learning use cases across the Risk Operations lifecycle
- Orchestrate cross-functional delivery with disciplined prioritization, execution rigor, and measurable outcomes
**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills **
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 4 years of experience delivering data, analytics, reporting, or automation solutions in financial services, risk, credit operations, or adjacent domains
- Demonstrated leadership delivering material business outcomes and end-to-end execution ownership
- Proficiency in SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
- Proficiency in Python for analytics and automation use cases
- Hands-on experience with Alteryx for data preparation and workflow automation
- Hands-on experience with Tableau for dashboard development and operational reporting
- Experience delivering intelligent automation using UiPath and/or Microsoft Power Platform capabilities
- Proven ability to manage cross-functional delivery aligned to strategic initiatives and operational needs
- Strong ability to translate complex data into concise executive narratives and decision-ready insights
- Experience leading change, upskilling others, and establishing durable operating routines
**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills **
- Experience implementing measurable benefits tracking and benefits realization governance for automation and analytics programs
- Familiarity with enterprise control, risk, and attestation processes supporting automation and reporting solutions
- Experience modernizing collaboration and workflow processes using SharePoint Online and low-code tools
- Experience identifying and framing AI/ML use cases and partnering with governance forums to advance delivery
- Knowledge of credit application and data ecosystems spanning multiple platforms and data sources
- Experience operating in a high-visibility environment supporting senior leaders with time-sensitive insights
- Strong stakeholder management skills across technology, data, operations, and risk partners