Senior Regulatory Compliance Data Analyst / Project Manager – GRC Connectivity & Regulatory Change Management

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a leading global financial institution with an established presence in the U.S. banking market and a strong commitment to regulatory compliance, risk management, and operational excellence. The organization operates in a highly regulated environment where effective governance, transparent controls, and reliable regulatory data are essential to maintaining a strong compliance framework.

This opportunity sits within a specialized Regulatory Change Management (RCM) function supporting a broader Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) transformation initiative. The team works across Compliance, Risk Management, Legal, Technology, and business operations to strengthen regulatory traceability, improve data integrity, and establish meaningful connections between regulatory requirements and enterprise risk and control frameworks.

What's In Store For You

• Hybrid opportunity based in Jersey City, NJ, offering a combination of onsite collaboration and remote work.
• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
• Contract assignment supporting a significant regulatory compliance and data connectivity initiative.
• Opportunity to work with cross-functional stakeholders on enterprise-wide GRC modernization, regulatory mapping, and data governance.
• Exposure to regulatory transformation initiatives within a complex global banking environment.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Drive the execution of regulatory connectivity initiatives by coordinating project activities, deliverables, stakeholders, and implementation milestones across the RCM program.
• Establish and maintain project plans, dependency trackers, RAID logs, action registers, implementation schedules, and governance reporting to ensure consistent program execution.
• Analyze and validate regulatory and compliance datasets, identifying inconsistencies, incomplete relationships, duplicate records, and opportunities to improve data quality.
• Support the development and validation of end-to-end regulatory traceability connecting regulations, obligations, policies, business processes, risks, controls, testing, issues, and remediation activities.
• Facilitate working sessions with Compliance, Risk, Technology, and business stakeholders to define, validate, and document regulatory connectivity relationships.
• Perform data reconciliation, quality assessments, mapping reviews, and remediation tracking to improve the accuracy and completeness of GRC information.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into actionable implementation plans, process documentation, and validated connectivity mappings.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), business validation, defect management, and implementation readiness activities.
• Develop sophisticated Excel-based analytical models, management reports, dashboards, and tracking solutions to provide visibility into program progress and data quality.
• Leverage reporting and collaboration platforms such as Power BI, SharePoint, SQL, and other enterprise data tools to improve operational efficiency and management reporting.
• Communicate implementation status, key risks, dependencies, and remediation progress to senior stakeholders while ensuring alignment across participating teams.

Requirements

Do You Bring Proven Success in Regulatory Compliance, GRC Data Analysis, and Program Delivery?

• 10+ years of experience within banking or financial services, supporting regulatory, compliance, risk management, data governance, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience working within banking regulatory compliance, GRC, governance, legal, or related risk and control functions.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance frameworks and the relationships between regulations, obligations, policies, risks, controls, testing, issues, and remediation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting regulatory connectivity, GRC mapping, regulatory lineage, or comparable traceability initiatives.
• Proven project management capabilities, including integrated planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk escalation, and executive-level reporting.
• Strong business analysis experience involving requirements gathering, process mapping, workflow evaluation, documentation, and solution validation.
• Expert-level Microsoft Excel proficiency, including advanced data analysis, reconciliation, reporting, and management information development.
• Hands-on experience evaluating complex datasets, investigating data quality issues, identifying mapping inconsistencies, and coordinating remediation.
• Proficiency with enterprise reporting and analytical technologies such as Power BI, SharePoint, SQL, Databricks, or comparable tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Compliance, Risk, Legal, Technology, Operations, and external partners.
• Experience within a U.S.-regulated foreign banking organization (FBO), Intermediate Holding Company (IHC), or Bank Holding Company (BHC) is highly desirable.
• Previous experience supporting strategic transformation programs with a leading consulting firm is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; master's degree or MBA preferred.
• Highly organized, analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable balancing hands-on data analysis with cross-functional project delivery.