Assistant Manager, Data Analytic - Group Compliance

AmBank Group; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AmBank Group invites a Data Analyst to join Group Compliance to design, develop and deliver analytics that support all compliance functions. You will collaborate with business users to extract data, generate insights, and drive process re-engineering across lines of business.

The role emphasizes data-driven recommendations, visualization, and identifying false positives in transaction monitoring to enhance productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science/Information Technology/Statistics/Data Science.
• Minimum 6 years banking experience, with at least 3 years in data analytics.
• Proven track record of delivering insights and recommendations based on data analysis.
• Familiarity with data visualization best practices and tools (PowerBI, Tableau).
• Knowledge of Python or R preferred.
• Analytics tool certifications a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deliver analytics to support Group Compliance functions.
• Identify opportunities to extract and utilize data to improve processes and productivity.
• Provide analytical recommendations aligned with bank-wide strategic growth plans.
• Create data-driven approaches using visualization and modeling.
• Collaborate with Transactions Monitoring Unit to assess false positives.
• Monitor alert volumes and ensure monitoring system operates as designed.

Skills

Data analytics

Data visualization

Python/R

Banking domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor degree in CS/IT/Statistics/Data Science

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

• This role is responsible for the design, development and delivery of analytics work supporting all the functions within Group Compliance.
• The Data Analyst will work with Group Compliance functions to identify opportunities to extract and utilize data more effectively for purposes of process re-engineering and to harness productivity within Compliance and other areas of the Bank.
• To provide analytical recommendations in tandem with Bank wide strategic growth plans
• To know and understand business user data challenges and manage their expectation.
• To generate insights in tandem with productivity of bank across all LOBs.
• To create and deploy propensity, segmentation, models for greater customer personalisation and prioritisation of resources.
• To assess new data source & analytical tool, enhance analytics capability for advanced anaytics to detect new typologies & false positives identification
• To create data-driven approaches for the purpose of generating new info through new technique, different overlay of dataset & information visualization
• Perform analysis to identify false positive alerts collaborating with Transactions Monitoring Unit
• Perform continuous analysis of alert volumes to ensure the transactions monitoring system works according to design
• Work on analytics support to other functions within Group Compliance (projects, Monitoring & Testing, Advisory, Transaction Monitoring)
• To identify and escape risks inherent in particular situations or transactions.
• To assess, control, monitor and report impact of risks, regulatory or financial.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Statistics/ Data Science
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Banking field, with at least 3 years in data analytics role
• Proven track record of delivering impactful insights and recommendations based on data analysis
• Familiarity with data visualization best practices and tools (PowerBI, Tableau etc.)
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python or R is preferred
• Certification in relevant analytics tools or methodologies is a plus