Analytics Lead, Strategic Insights (Compliance)

1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
Affirm

Affirm

Affirm offers a transparent buy now, pay later service founded in 2012 by Max Levchin. No late fees or surprises, just a responsible way to pay over time for your favorite brands.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012

Description

  • Own the design, operation, and governance of automated compliance monitoring and audit-ready evidence production.
  • Serve as the primary data owner for regulatory examinations, licensing audits, and bank partner exam requests.
  • Scope, validate, document, and support multi-round regulatory and audit data responses under external deadlines.
  • Triage monitoring exceptions and data anomalies, and support remediation through validation and evidence review.
  • Map automated checks to specific regulatory requirements and maintain the compliance control inventory.
  • Drive automation of recurring manual reporting and data requests into pipelines and self-service tools.
  • Steward the compliance data environment, including source-of-truth decisions, access, quality, query repositories, runbooks, and methodology documentation.
  • Provide technical direction, onboarding, training, work prioritization, and quality review for a supporting data analyst.
  • Partner with Engineering, Legal, Product, Internal Audit, and bank partners to resolve data issues and expand monitoring coverage.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in compliance analytics, monitoring, surveillance, transaction testing, audit analytics, or a similar data role in a regulated industry.
  • Advanced SQL experience and hands-on work with a modern cloud data stack such as Snowflake and Databricks.
  • Experience building and operating automated pipelines, dashboards, and data quality checks.
  • Working knowledge of consumer credit regulations including TILA/Reg Z, ECOA/Reg B, EFTA/Reg E, FCRA, SCRA, MLA, TCPA, and state lending, licensing, and usury requirements.
  • Ability to translate regulatory obligations into data logic and data anomalies into regulatory questions.
  • Experience delivering regulatory or audit data under hard deadlines with multi-round follow-ups.
  • AI fluency using AI-assisted development tools for query building, troubleshooting, and workflow automation, with validation of outputs.
  • Experience training, guiding, or reviewing junior analysts’ work.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort working through ambiguity.
  • Nice to have: Python and lightweight application development such as Streamlit.
  • Nice to have: GRC platform exposure such as AuditBoard and control inventory/documentation experience.
  • Nice to have: Familiarity with bank partnership or sponsor bank operating models.
  • Nice to have: Experience expanding monitoring or reporting coverage across jurisdictions such as the US, Canada, and the UK.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $145,000-$205,000 in CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT, or $128,000-$188,000 in other U.S. states.
  • Equity grade 6 and equity rewards as part of total compensation.
  • Remote-first work with the ability to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage, plus dental and vision for you and your dependents.
  • Monthly stipends and flexible spending wallets for health, wellness, technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchases.
  • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process for candidates who need support.

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