Vice President, Business Systems Analyst Specialist

TD Bank; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank is seeking a Lead Business Systems Analyst for its Compliance Technology team in New York. The role focuses on Trade and Communications Surveillance, leading analysis, design, and delivery of technology capabilities that help Compliance meet regulatory obligations and detect market misconduct.

You will liaise with Compliance stakeholders, technology teams, data science groups, and external vendors to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with business strategy.

Qualifications

• Partner with Compliance, Surveillance, Supervision, Global Markets, Legal, and Data stakeholders to capture, refine, and prioritize business requirements for trade and communications surveillance systems.
• Lead workshops and interviews with front-office, control, operations, data, and technology stakeholders to align functional requirements with business processes, market practices, communications channels, and regulatory expectations.
• Translate complex regulatory, policy, conduct-risk, data-retention, privacy, and market-structure requirements into clear functional and non-functional specifications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain business process models, data flow diagrams, data lineage, use cases, and control requirements for trade and communications surveillance workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, data engineers, data scientists, and model-risk partners to design scalable solutions for global markets activity and high-volume communications data.
• Support configuration, tuning, calibration, and optimization of surveillance scenarios, policies, lexicons, alerts, and detection logic to improve precision and recall while managing false positives.
• Evaluate and help implement advanced analytics, including NLP, ML, LLMs, semantic search, entity extraction, topic and sentiment indicators, clustering, anomaly detection, and network analytics.
• Define human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability, auditability, access controls, and responsible-AI requirements for analytics and generative-AI capabilities used in surveillance.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Requirements Gathering

Workshop Facilitation

Regulatory & Compliance Knowledge

Data Analysis

Tools

SMARTS

TradingHub

Behavox

Smarsh

Job description

Work Location :

New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:

40

Line of Business:

Technology Solutions

Pay Detail:

$140,000.00 - $225,000.00 USD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to join our Compliance Technology team, specializing in Trade and Communications Surveillance. This role requires deep financial-services experience across surveillance, global markets, and data-driven compliance solutions. You will lead the analysis, design, and delivery of technology capabilities that help Compliance and Supervision meet regulatory obligations, detect potential market abuse and misconduct, and manage risks across trading activity and electronic communications. Acting as the primary liaison among Compliance stakeholders, technology teams, data science teams, and external vendors, you will ensure solutions are operationally effective, compliant with regulatory expectations, scalable across large and diverse datasets, and aligned with business strategy.

Required Skills :

Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering

• Partner with Compliance, Surveillance, Supervision, Global Markets, Legal, and Data stakeholders to capture, refine, and prioritize business requirements for trade and communications surveillance systems.
• Lead workshops and interviews with front-office, control, operations, data, and technology stakeholders to align functional requirements with business processes, market practices, communications channels, and regulatory expectations.
• Translate complex regulatory, policy, conduct-risk, data-retention, privacy, and market-structure requirements into clear functional and non-functional specifications.
• Define use cases across electronic communications, including email, chat, voice transcripts, collaboration platforms, and other approved channels, and connect communications context with trade, order, employee, and reference data where appropriate.

Solution Design & Delivery Oversight

• Develop and maintain business process models, data flow diagrams, data lineage, use cases, and control requirements for trade and communications surveillance workflows.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, data engineers, data scientists, and model-risk partners to design scalable solutions for global markets activity and high-volume communications data.
• Support configuration, tuning, calibration, and optimization of surveillance scenarios, policies, lexicons, alerts, and detection logic to improve precision and recall while managing false positives.
• Evaluate and help implement advanced analytics, including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, large language models (LLMs), semantic search, entity extraction, topic and sentiment indicators, clustering, anomaly detection, and network analytics.
• Define human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability, auditability, access controls, and responsible-AI requirements for analytics and generative-AI capabilities used in surveillance.

Data Analysis & Validation

• Analyze large, complex datasets spanning trades, orders, market data, email, chat, voice transcripts, collaboration tools, employee data, and reference data to identify surveillance gaps, conduct-risk indicators, and anomalous patterns.
• Partner with data engineering teams to ensure the quality, completeness, timeliness, lineage, reconciliation, retention, and traceability of structured and unstructured data feeds.
• Use SQL and analytical tools to perform data profiling, mapping, validation, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and control testing across distributed big-data environments.
• Define and assess model and scenario performance using appropriate metrics, including precision, recall, false-positive rates, coverage, drift, and outcome-based effectiveness measures.
• Define, manage, and execute UAT plans, test cases, model-validation support, data-quality checks, and defect-resolution processes.

Vendor & Platform Management

• Work with leading trade and communications surveillance platforms and adjacent data technologies (for example, SMARTS, TradingHub, Behavox, Smarsh, cloud data platforms, and search and analytics tools) to optimize capability, control effectiveness, and system performance.
• Coordinate with ven