Senior Principal Research Analyst, Market Analytics

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Promote the use of advanced analytics and associated insights for the consumption of internal and external stakeholders, including senior level management across the organization.
• Lead business engagement activities including soliciting use cases, user feedback, training, etc.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of FINRA's cross-market surveillance program.
• Work across delivery teams to deliver analytics capabilities that solve critical business problems.
• Drive availability of relevant data, tools, and infrastructure to facilitate for experimental and development purposes.
• Provide analytics-based research and respond to ad hoc requests in support of business objectives.
• Define approach for data collection for building analytics-based systems, transformations and extending company’s data with third-party sources of information when needed.
• Devise and implement methods for automation of all parts of the predictive pipeline to achieve regulatory efficiencies.
• Actively participate in the completion of the enterprise-wide strategic plan for expanding analytics capabilities that support regulatory programs to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure all assigned activities are completed according to prescribed policies and standards.
• Provide reports on status of assigned tasks or projects. Maintain current knowledge of applicable business activities.
• Fulfill administrative reporting tasks. Oversee user acceptance testing prior to implementing a new system or major enhancement.
• Keep abreast of new techniques to be used in conducting market monitoring and surveillance.
• Participate in presentations to visitors and senior management on the use of technology, e.g., prototypes of new systems for Market Regulation.

Requirements

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Business, with a minimum of six years of experience.
• Experience can be substituted for an advanced degree.
• Must have strong financial and risk analytical skills.
• Some experience in operations and risk modeling fields.
• Comfort in analyzing large amounts of data in an efficient manner.

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in relevant fields (Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Business) or equivalent experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
• Basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and other insurance options.
• Short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal benefits.
• Immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and additional retirement contributions.
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
• Time off including 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days, 9 sick days, two volunteer service days, and nine paid holidays.
• Paid leave for military, jury duty, bereavement, voting, family care, childbirth, and parental leave.