VP, Risk Data & Analytics

Job Description Summary

Under limited direction the VP Risk Data & Analytics will lead the analysis design development and ongoing support of data reporting and analytics solutions across RJF Risk Management. The role will serve as a subject matter expert on Risks rapidly expanding data ecosystem and emerging capabilities partnering closely with Risk Stripe Leads Segment CROs Risk Technology and other stakeholders to expand risk measurement reduce data-related friction strengthen transparency and control and drive accurate and intuitive risk reporting. The VP will transform challenges and opportunities into value-driven use cases and oversee the design and execution of concurrent Risk Data & Analytics and Risk Technology workstreams ensuring that solutions are well documented well governed and aligned to the broader RJF Risk Management and Risk & Data Analytics strategic roadmaps.

Job Description

• Lead the analysis design development and ongoing support of tactical point solutions and scalable strategic capabilities supporting data reporting and analytics across RJF Risk Management.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on RJF Risk Managements data and its various touch points across roles platforms and processes especially upstream dependencies and downstream impact.
• Manage data transformation entity consolidation and risk aggregation processes used to report exposure to regulatory audit committee executive management and board level audiences.
• Increase the frequency breadth and depth of risk measurement capabilities by targeting data-related process friction through automation and process improvement.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and use techniques such as structured interviewing group workshops and free form whiteboarding sessions to solicit requirements and transform them into polished specifications and support artifacts for Risk Data & Analytics and Risk Technology.
• Actively manage a backlog and roadmap of risk management platform data analytics reporting dashboarding workflow and decision-support use cases.
• Continuously drive down total cost of ownership of data-driven solutions by promoting modular design shared components and configuration-driven development.
• Promote visual and user experience design concepts to deliver solutions that are pleasing to look at intuitive to use and understand elegant in their simplicity and accessible to all who use them.
• Create and actively maintain documentation visual artifacts guides and end user support materials.
• Establish a framework of observability reproducibility and auditability for analytics solutions that tightly manages experiments model training testing inference and ground truth and performance data integration while providing a sight glass for regulatory oversight audit and model risk management.
• Provide ad hoc reporting visualization and analytical support for regulatory audit compliance business unit and executive management inquiries.
• Manage assigned team members and delivery resources including workload prioritization coaching performance management and development planning.

• Risk management concepts and practices including risk identification appetite aggregation measurement monitoring control reporting escalation and governance.
• Financial markets products financial advisory activities investment processes and related risk management considerations.
• Risk data analytics and reporting practices across financial and non-financial risk domains.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) frameworks (e.g. Waterfall Agile)
• Federal Reserve OCC FINRA SEC and other relevant regulatory lenses applicable to risk data analytics reporting and controls within banking brokerage and capital markets.
• Intermediate understanding of and hands on experience with SQL and Python.
• RDBMS (e.g. Oracle Postgres) and distributed database platforms (e.g. Redshift Snowflake)
• Hands on experience with industry standard business intelligence tooling (e.g. Tableau Qlik PowerBI)
• Work and project management tooling (e.g. SharePoint and Confluence wikis MS Project Smartsheet)
• Data management and governance concepts including quality lineage metadata documentation reconciliation and change management.
• Requirements gathering solution design implementation planning testing user acceptance and production support for data reporting and analytics solutions.

• Developing creative pragmatic solutions to complex data reporting analytics and technology matters.
• Preparing and delivering clear effective and professional presentations for technical risk business and senior management while bridging communication between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Translating business risk and regulatory data needs into clear requirements user stories data specifications process documentation implementation plans and other relevant artifacts.
• Effectively engaging with and influencing stakeholders outside direct reporting lines to drive alignment on scope risks timelines dependencies and issue resolution.

• Apply a strong interest in technology data and analytics toward practical solutions that support risk management and help protect Raymond James and its clients.
• Lead assigned project teams and workstreams including planning task assignment issue tracking stakeholder updates delivery oversight and escalation of material risks or decisions.
• Shift seamlessly between the technical analysis of needs and opportunities managing stakeholder engagement and communication and overall execution and delivery management.
• Facilitate meetings and working sessions with mixed audiences ensuring that key viewpoints risks issues ideas and decisions are captured and addressed.
• Evaluate the ROI of vendor tooling against competing and internally developed solutions.

Education

Bachelors: Computer and Information Science Bachelors: Finance Bachelors: Management Information Systems

Work Experience

General Experience - More than 15 years Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years

Certifications

Salary Range

$175000.00-$230000.00

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity) discretionary bonuses or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical dental and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation holidays and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered visit .

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop Collaborate Decide Deliver Improve) to deliver on the firms core values of client-first integrity independence and a conservative long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:
Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
Make prompt pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James as part of our people-first culture we honor value and respect the uniqueness experiences and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves our organization clients and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.

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