Senior Manager, Financial Crimes Analytics

Raymond James & Associates; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James & Associates seeks a Manager, Financial Crimes Analytics to design and optimize detection models across AML, Fraud, KYC, and Sanctions. You will lead hands-on model development while providing technical leadership and working with stakeholders to strengthen testing practices.

You will apply statistics and ML techniques, calibrate thresholds, and ensure reproducible results across platforms like FCRM and Bridger. A strong data-driven mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or related discipline.
• Six+ years in financial crimes analytics, model development, data science, or related work in financial services, FinTech, or consulting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for complex surveillance model design, development, testing, and optimization across Financial Crimes domains.
• Design, code, test, and refine detection scenarios, statistical models, thresholds, segmentation, and risk-scoring methodologies.
• Lead ATL/BTL testing, back-testing, and model efficacy assessments to identify coverage gaps and tuning opportunities.
• Develop and monitor model performance metrics, health indicators, and early-warning processes; investigate performance deterioration and recommend corrective action.
• Configure, test, tune, and optimize detection platforms (FCRM, Bridger); support integrations with payments and KYC platforms such as Fenergo.
• Apply statistical methods to model development, feature selection, tuning, and validation support.
• Establish consistent standards for model testing, documentation, change control, and reproducible analyses.
• Perform hands-on root cause analysis of missed/detected activity and false positives.
• Partner with Model Risk Management on governance, validation, audit, and regulatory requests.
• Present model performance findings and risk-based tradeoffs to leadership.

Skills

SQL

Python

Statistics

Machine learning

Model risk governance

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/Statistics/CS/Math/Finance

Tools

FCRM

Bridger

Fenergo

KYC platforms

Job description

Raymond James & Associates seeks a Manager, Financial Crimes Analytics to design and optimize detection models across AML, Fraud, KYC, and Sanctions. You will lead hands-on model development while providing technical leadership and working with stakeholders to strengthen testing practices.

You will apply statistics and ML techniques, calibrate thresholds, and ensure reproducible results across platforms like FCRM and Bridger. A strong data-driven mindset is essential.