Lead Business Analytics & Reporting Analyst - Financial Investigations Unit, BSA/AML

Location: Buffalo, New York, United States; hybrid with 4 days in-office per week

Salary: $74,600–$124,400 annual USD

Company

M&T Bank operates a banking business with a Financial Investigations Unit focused on BSA/AML and financial crime risk.

What you will do

• Design and enhance analytic rules, detection scenarios, and data-driven monitoring strategies for insider threat activity.
• Analyze large, disparate datasets to identify financial crime patterns, money laundering typologies, anomalous behavior, and emerging risks.
• Translate FinCEN advisories, regulatory guidance, and internal priorities into detection logic and investigative frameworks.
• Lead project-based analytical initiatives addressing fraud, money laundering, insider threats, and enterprise detection capabilities.
• Partner with Financial Crimes, Fraud, Technology, and Data Office stakeholders to define requirements, validate outcomes, and implement analytics in production.
• Document methodologies and findings for audits, regulatory inquiries, validation efforts, white papers, presentations, and executive summaries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of related business-line experience, or a combined minimum of 8 years of higher education and/or work experience.
• Experience with Python and SQL.
• Ability to lead complex analytical initiatives and develop detection logic for financial crime and insider threat risks.
• Ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, defensible deliverables for business and executive stakeholders.
• Must work in the Buffalo office four days per week in a hybrid model.
• Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates requiring current or future sponsorship, including F-1 visa holders on CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT, will not be considered.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to proactive financial crime and insider threat detection.
• Cross-functional collaboration across business, technology, risk, fraud, and data teams.
• Advisory and coaching responsibilities supporting junior analysts and business partners.
• Work aligned with company compliance standards, internal controls, audits, and regulatory remediation.