SAS Developer & Data Analyst

Target Business Services
Location: L5 Nexus Building, 4 Columbia Court, Norwest, NSW, 2153
Salary: $120,000
Position: Full time, Permanent
Our client The Trustee for Desai family Trust t/a D Global Pty Ltd. provides unrivalled expertise, exceptional service, and the highest standards of security and compliance to the customers worldwide.
D Global Pty Ltd. is committed to deliver client’s success by focusing on strategic objectives, business outcomes and benefits. The company’s adaptability to new technology and continuous research delivers the outcome differently and efficiently.
D Global Pty Ltd. drive change and solve the problem differently, focusing on redefining the future through technology and security and help customers design, manage, and modernize the technology systems they depend on daily.
The client is looking for a SAS Developer & Data Analyst in a full-time, permanent role with tremendous potential for growth for an immediate start and this is a fantastic opportunity to make your mark in a fast-paced, dynamic, and innovative environment for a leading-edge company.
You will be working for D Global customer who is an Australia’s well known financial institution. This role provides analytical support for complex financial crime investigations (combining fraud and AML) and critical projects, which plays an important part in overseeing system integration and data strategy for our Financial Crimes function.
As a Senior SAS Developer, Financial Crime in the Financial Crime and Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk Analytics team, you will join a team responsible for the development, support, maintenance and enhancement of existing SAS scripts and systems for the effective detection of financial crime.
You will be responsible for the delivery of enhancements to the Transaction Monitoring system through data and advanced analytics. You will be responsible for developing specific data and analytical solutions to meet Financial Crime Risk typologies and risks.
Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• 7 – 10+ years of relevant data and analytics experience including advanced programming skills in SAS, advanced analytics skills
• Ideally 5+ years working in a financial services institution in the area of financial crime risk data analysis
• Good understanding of data feeds, rule sets, platform tuning, customer, account and transaction data types.
• Experience working in a digital banking environment
• Valid SAS Base and Advance Programmer certification.
• Relevant qualification and working experience with Unix and Red Hat Linux operation system
In this role your main responsibilities include:
• Provide analytical support for complex financial crime investigations and critical projects
• Support the development, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of Financial Crime Operations detection systems and data environment
• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain data pipelines across a range of technologies that extract, load, combine and transform data from a range of internal and external sources
• Track, manage and assess issues using data analytics, and supporting issue resolution
• Understand and implement data governance requirements that support data and analytics solutions including security, data quality, data classification, trustworthiness, and re-usability
• Develop and implement strategies for the ingestion of source data ensuring data accuracy and reliability
• Produce data analytics deliverables in relation to Financial Crime Operations, including exploratory data analytics, and bespoke management information reporting
• Contribute to the development, review and update of process and system documentation
• Proactively identify and troubleshoot issues through root cause analysis, promptly resolving them to minimise any disruptions to reporting processes
• Contribute to the design of technical data mapping from source to target including transformation rules
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand their reporting requirements, providing timely and insightful responses to ad-hoc queries, including analysis, and recommendations to support decision-making
• Contribute to data governance processes and procedures, including business rule definition and documentation.
• Identify data requirements, develop code, and implement automated routines to transform and analyze data
• Maintaining integrity and compliance with policies and procedures
• Support usage of data warehouse, big data platform and other data sources available in the group to develop accurate customer profiles and detection scenarios
• Maintain engagement with the Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring team for continuous improvement of the system and deliverables
• Assist in the facilitation of data quality remediation by identifying data issues, triaging issues, facilitating remediation collaboration between stakeholders and monitoring remediation outcomes
• Support the Data Governance Team researching and writing data standards, processes, and guidelines
To be considered for this role you must have:
• Experience with relevant systems & programming languages (SAS EG, SQL, MS Access, MS Excel, VBA, Power BI), strong SQL skills are essential
• Experience implementing and/or supporting financial crime risk systems for example NetReveal on Demand and/or Safer Payments – for transaction monitoring, screening and case management, and/or AUSTRAC regulatory reporting
• Ability to communicate data concepts and explain data with clarity to others
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualise processes and outcomes
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to lead resolution efforts for complex issues
To apply for this position, email your resume to ****@outlook.com
Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted and your application will be treated as strictly confidential.