About the Role
The Senior Analyst, International Solutions Strategy & Insights will play a critical role in helping First Citizens Bank advance its international banking strategy. This versatile individual will combine hands-on data analytics, market insight, strategic thinking, and cross-functional engagement to surface revenue growth opportunities, improve visibility into international client behavior, and support the development of holistic global banking solutions. This role is ideal for a commercially minded analyst to gain exposure to international banking, cross-border payments, liquidity management, FX, trade finance and help create real business value through insights, analytics, solution ideation, and go to market enablement.
Responsibilities
- Analyzes complex datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across international products and markets.
- Develops actionable insights to support strategic initiatives and business performance.
- Provides regular reporting and ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership.
- Designs, builds, and maintains dashboards and visualization/reporting tools that provide actionable insights into international client activity, product usage, flows and revenue trends.
- Analyzes client behavior, international product penetration, transaction flows, wallet expansion potential, and cross-product adoption patterns.
- Partners with cross functional teams to understand market and product specific needs, challenges, and opportunities.
- Helps translate global strategy into targeted client strategies, pipeline opportunities, and measurable commercial outcomes.
- Supports discussions with sales and product leadership to advocate for the ideation, development and commercialization of global and cross-border solutions.
- Acts as a liaison between business units, IT, and data teams.
- Supports leadership with presentations, forecasting, and strategic planning.
- Serves as connective tissue between internal stakeholders, client feedback loops, and market intelligence to help shape the evolution of cross-product initiatives and the international solutions roadmap.
- Develops and maintains data models where applicable and ensures compliance with data privacy regulations across regions.
- Works with large datasets from multiple sources across the enterprise.
- Identifies opportunities to enhance BI capabilities, tools, and processes.
- Stays up to date on industry trends in analytics, data visualizations, AI, global markets.
- Mentors junior analysts and supports team development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in financial services, corporate treasury, consulting, fintech, or global payments.
- High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in financial services, corporate treasury, consulting, fintech, or global payments.
- Strong hands-on analytics and visualization skills leveraging Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, Excel modeling, and similar tools.
- Proven data synthesis skills with the ability to translate data into insights and actionable recommendations.
- BS/BA in Data Science/Analytics, Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics or 8+ years relevant experience.
- Exposure to FX, cross-border payments, liquidity, trade finance, treasury management, or international banking.
- CTP, CertICM, CFA, MBA, or relevant advanced degree/certification.
- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands on execution and detail-oriented analytical work.
- Commercial orientation and ability to connect insights to revenue growth.
- Strong intellectual curiosity, creativity, and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute with an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Motivated and committed to continuous improvement/learning.
Skills
- Python
- Power BI
- Tableau
- SQL
- Excel
- Data Analysis
- Business Intelligence
- Reporting
- Data Visualization
- Strategic Thinking
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Data Management
- AI
- Global Markets
Location
- SF
- NYC
- Raleigh
- Charlotte
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- High School Diploma or GED
- BS/BA
- MBA
Salary/Compensations
- If hired in CA or NY, the base pay for this position is generally between $114,000.00 and $152,000.00
- If hired in NC, the base pay for this position is generally between $95,000.00 and $126,000.00
Benefits
- Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.
About the Company
- At First Citizens Bank, the newly formed International Solutions Team plays a pivotal role in advancing the global banking franchise of all our brands including First Citizens Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and CIT, by supporting both the strategic expansion of the bank and the international operating needs of our clients as they scale globally.
