Senior Data Science Consultant | Compliance

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation consulting firm committed to creating advanced narratives for transformation and innovation and implementing them on a large scale. We aim to deliver superior value and tangible results to our clients as they navigate the digital revolution and achieve transformations that have a positive impact. Our global reach and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services enable us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy, and Data Science.

Why Join The Sia Village?

Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing

These are the that guide all our actions. Our Sia Village concept, inspired by our values, represents our dedication to cultivating a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is crucial not only to innovation but to the growth and development of our team.

By joining Sia Partners, you will benefit from:

• An entrepreneurial journey
• A career advocacy programme that supports professional development goals through guidance and real-time feedback
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives with a continually expanding list of global affinity groups

Job Description

Sia Partners is seeking a talented Senior Data Scientist to support our activities within the Data Science Business Unit. You will work alongside our Data Science consultants and clients on Data Science topics, including data acquisition and exploration, creating relevant data models and presenting results to stakeholders.

You will also contribute to internal Data Science projects hosted on , our internal accelerator for Data Science projects. As part of the global Data Science team, you will contribute to the development of various solutions designed to meet our clients’ needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with our client’s leadership teams, engineers, program managers and data analysts to understand data needs.
• Identify, acquire, process and explore relevant data sources.
• Analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured information to discover trends and patterns.
• Use your data analytics and science expertise to derive valuable insights from datasets, build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms.
• Communicate at scale, through multiple mediums - presentations, dashboards, datasets, bots and more.
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges.
• Cooperate with engineering and product development teams.
• Work on a broad range of projects and outputs, including Models, algorithms, datasets, measurements, services, tools and processes.
• Work with compliance teams to ensure data models and algorithms meet regulatory requirements and best practices regarding financial crimes.
• Integrate and apply knowledge of sanction screening and transaction monitoring platforms into data analytics for the improvement of financial crime detection and prevention.
• Ensure data science activities align with compliance standards, particularly with focus on financial crimes, sanctions, and other regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
• Experience with creating models, using machine-learning, and NLP
• 4+ years’ experience in R, SQL and Python
• 4+ years’ experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBi, R Shiny)
• Ambition for problem-solving and business comprehension
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• BSc/BA in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering
• Demonstrated experience in working with compliance data, particularly in financial crimes, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring.
• Familiarity with and understanding of regulatory requirements and best practices in Compliance and Financial crimes.

Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation depends on a broad array of factors, including but not limited to market location, role, skill set and level/years of experience
• The annual Salary is between $128,100.00 and $131,250 annually.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
• Generous PTO
• 100% paid parental leave for all new parents regardless of gender and future moms program
• 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
• 401(k) matching
• College save-up plan & loan repayment plan
• Cell phone subsidy
• Commuter Benefits
• Gym Reimbursement through our firm's medical plan

Our Commitment To Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are integral components of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in multiple sectors and our international growth, our teams incorporate a variety of experiences and cultures. We firmly believe that promoting DEIB creates an environment where everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people globally to facilitate local and global progress focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY 19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, compensation, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.

Hybrid Workplace Guidelines

Sia Partners maintains its hybrid workplace arrangements and provides a flexible work environment driven by client and business/market needs. While we do support hybrid work, there are times when we may require our consultants to work full-time at one of our Sia offices or a client office. Consultants are expected to be flexible with work location depending on business needs. When not engaged on a client project, consultants typically work at a local Sia office 2+ days per week.

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