Director, Risk Data & Analytics

About the role

The Director, Risk Data & Analytics will lead the analysis, design, development, and ongoing support of data, reporting, and analytics solutions across RJF Risk Management. Serving as a subject matter expert, they will partner with Risk Stripe Leads, Segment CROs, Risk Technology, and other stakeholders to enhance risk measurement, reduce data-related friction, strengthen transparency and control, and improve risk reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis, design, development, and ongoing support of tactical point solutions and scalable strategic capabilities supporting data, reporting, and analytics across assigned areas of RJF Risk Management.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on RJF Risk Management data and its touch points across roles, platforms, and processes, including upstream dependencies and downstream impacts.
• Lead assigned components of the Risk Data & Analytics strategy and manage data transformation, entity consolidation, and risk aggregation processes used for regulatory, audit, committee, executive, and board reporting.
• Increase the frequency, breadth, and depth of risk measurement by targeting data-related process friction through automation, analytical methods, and process improvement.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and translate business, risk, and regulatory needs into clear data requirements, analytical logic, specifications, and delivery artifacts.
• Manage assigned portions of the roadmap and backlog for data, analytics, reporting, dashboarding, workflow, and decision-support use cases.
• Develop and implement analytical approaches and methodologies and assist stakeholders in interpreting results for risk management and business decisions.
• Create and maintain data dictionaries, documentation, visual artifacts, reports, and end-user support materials for technical, risk, business, regulatory, and executive audiences.
• Establish appropriate practices for observability, reproducibility, and auditability of analytics solutions while supporting regulatory, audit, and model risk management expectations.
• 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, performance objectives, coaching, development planning, and accountability for timely, quality delivery.
• Lead assigned projects and workstreams within established cost, time, scope, and quality parameters and escalate material risks, dependencies, and decisions as appropriate.

Requirements

• Knowledge of SQL, Python, relational and distributed database platforms, and industry-standard business intelligence tools such as Tableau and Qlik.
• Data management and governance concepts, including quality, lineage, metadata, reconciliation, information lifecycle management, and change management.
• Requirements gathering, solution design, testing, user acceptance, implementation planning, and production support.
• 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.
• Analytical approaches and methodologies used to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, and emerging risks.
• Federal Reserve, OCC, FINRA, SEC, and other relevant regulatory lenses applicable to risk data, analytics, reporting, and controls.

Skills

• Developing creative, pragmatic solutions to complex data, reporting, analytics, and technology matters.
• Planning and managing projects and workstreams within established cost, time, scope, and quality parameters.
• Translating business, risk, and regulatory needs into data requirements, analytical logic, specifications, implementation plans, and other delivery artifacts.
• Preparing and delivering clear, effective reports and presentations for technical, risk, business, regulatory, and senior management audiences.
• EFFECTIVELY engaging with and influencing stakeholders outside direct reporting lines to drive alignment on priorities, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Managing and developing team members, establishing clear expectations, and holding individuals accountable for results.
• Executing as both a hands-on individual contributor and a leader of project teams and workstreams, including planning, task assignment, issue tracking, stakeholder updates, delivery oversight, and escalation.
• Facilitating meetings and working sessions with mixed audiences and ensuring key viewpoints, risks, issues, and decisions are captured and addressed.
• Translating analytical work into findings and recommendations that can be applied by Risk Management and broader business stakeholders.
• Evaluate the ROI of vendor tooling against competing and internally developed solutions.