Strategic Analytics Lead, Legal and Compliance data

Overview

The Strategic Analytics Lead plays a critical role in supporting the Office of the General Council at Vanguard. This individual identifies emerging legal, regulatory, and control risks within a rapidly evolving architecture and translates them into data-driven insights that strengthen governance, compliance, and strategic decision-making.

Operating with significant autonomy, the Analytics Lead develops new analytical capabilities, helps define enterprise-aligned metrics, and builds visibility into risk and control issues across the platform ecosystem. This role provides the opportunity to influence a high-impact transformation while establishing the analytical foundation for risk-aware innovation at Vanguard.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Analytical Leadership

• Partner with OGC leadership, program teams, and technology partners to understand evolving risks and data needs as new platforms are deployed.
• Provide thought leadership on how analytics can improve legal, regulatory, and control oversight across the transformation.
• Shape the analytical strategy for monitoring platform ecosystem changes, including risk indicators, control gaps, policy alignment, and data integrity.
• Serve as OGC's analytics liaison to enterprise data and technology teams, ensuring that data quality, lineage, accessibility, and governance meet legal and control requirements.

• Proactively identify emerging legal, regulatory, operational, and entitlement-related risks driven by new architectures, data flows, integrations, and control structures.
• Translate complex legal and control requirements into measurable metrics, dashboards, and insights for senior decision-makers.
• Analyze platform ecosystem data to surface trends, issue patterns, risk hotspots, and areas requiring escalation or remediation.

• Design and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and reporting tools that track OGC-aligned risk and governance metrics.
• Develop analytical tools and automated solutions to support early detection of legal, compliance, and control risks.
• Enhance reporting mechanisms using automation, scalable design, and advanced analytics.
• Ensure analytical outputs integrate into enterprise issue management, risk frameworks, and governance routines.

• Operate with independence, setting analytical priorities and driving execution across teams.
• Influence outcomes and align stakeholders without formal authority.
• Communicate complex analytical concepts clearly to leadership, technology partners, and senior stakeholders.
• Promote consistency and rigor in evaluating legal and control impacts of new platform capabilities.

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in data analytics, statistics, information systems, or related field preferred.
• 8-12+ years of analytics experience in risk, controls, compliance, legal/regulatory functions, or enterprise transformation.
• Strong understanding of legal/regulatory risk domains, technology controls, data governance, and enterprise issue management.
• Proven ability to translate qualitative legal/control expectations into quantitative metrics and actionable insights.
• Proficiency with analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, AWS, and Python.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills with the ability to identify emerging risks.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics for non-technical audiences.
• Highly self-directed and comfortable navigating ambiguity and leading work across diverse teams.

• Experience applying AI or ML techniques to automation, risk detection, or process efficiency.
• Experience supporting large-scale platform transformations or architecture modernization.
• Familiarity with financial services legal frameworks, regulatory environments, and control structures.