Senior Business Analyst, Compliance Systems and Analytics
Job description:
Senior Business Analyst, Compliance Systems and Analytics – Vilnius, Lithuania
Do you like to guide the evolution of the next generation of compliance products from conception to implementation and beyond? Do you consider yourself strategic, data-driven, and execution-focused person? Are you interested in being an essential part of our product organization, driving platform modernization, and delivering innovative tools that will support the ever-changing global compliance landscape? Then, it’s time to join Western Union as a Senior Business Analyst, Compliance Systems and Analytics
Western Union is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and execution-focused Product Owner to join our Compliance Systems and Analytics (CSA) team. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering the vision and roadmap of a critical platform that will support our global risk and compliance functions.
This involves working cross-functionally with Operations, Policy, Data, and Technology to understand our various global compliance needs, user personas, and competition to formulate requirements, and deliver impactful solutions to our users.
Role Responsibilities
- Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to understand regulatory trends, pain points, and future-state needs.
- Deliver the product strategy to align with business priorities, ever-changing regulatory mandates, and enterprise modernization
- Support outcome-oriented roadmaps for systems such as case management, investigations, regulatory reporting, and audit.
- Use data to inform prioritization, evaluate product performance (KPIs), and identify product opportunities.
- Understand user and stakeholder needs and gather product requirements, prioritizing them based on business impact.
- Foster relationships with stakeholders and communicate workstream status, issues, and risks on a regular cadence.
- Translate strategic project requirements into clear, prioritized product Epics, Features, and User Stories.
- Lead and coordinate mid-sized projects, including research, analysis, documentation, design/develop testing, training, status reporting, implementation, and post-rollout review and audit.
- Partner with cross-functional teams through discovery, development, and deployment while ensuring timelines, scope, and quality targets are met.
- Ensure backlog is shoveled by meeting the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) to support effective planning and delivery.
- Collaborate with technical, compliance, and operational stakeholders to align on requirements, dependences, and business outcomes.
- Connect with our user base to understand their needs and identify innovative solutions.
Requirements:
- Solid experience and proven track record of compliance knowledge, preferably in the financial services.
- Strong product ownership or business analysis experience.
- Ability to go beyond order-taking, strong problem solver with transformative mindset.
- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English language (verbally and written).
- Ability to work independently and challenge the status quo.
- Technical knowledge with AWS, Snowflake (preferred), Jira, Reich and/or Figma.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of SQL and Python is considered as a plus.
- Experience with regulatory/compliance systems (Hummingbird, Palantir, OFAC tools) is evaluated as an advantage.
Company offers:
- Private Health Insurance (3 options)
- Life & Accident Insurance
- Additional days off
- Wide variety of discounts and special offers
- Free Fitness facilities
- Volunteering activities
- Referral program