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Director, Data Science and Insights

Busey Bank
$148,000.00 - $225,000.00 / yr
life insurance, paid time off, 401(k), profit sharing
United States, Illinois, Champaign
115 North Neil Street (Show on map)
Oct 20, 2025
Position Summary .Director, Data Science and Insights is responsible for leading the strategic use of data across the organization to drive financial performance, operational efficiency, and business innovation. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role ensures that analytics initiatives align with corporate financial goals and support data-driven decision-making across all business units. Duties & Responsibilities Business Partnership & Communication of Impact Formulate, communicate, and execute the enterprise data and AI/ML strategy, ensuring alignment with core business objectives and risk management practices Collaborate with internal teams to understand business needs and translate them into analytical solutions. Present insights and recommendations to senior leadership in a clear, actionable manner. Leverage dashboards, reports, and predictive models to support data-driven decision making. Strategic Analytics, Modeling & Insights: Design, develop implement and maintain advanced mathematical and statistical models Apply AI and machine learning techniques to drive revenue, efficiency and process improvements across the organization Lead the development of automated reporting and analytics solutions to support strategic initiatives. Data Management, Compliance & Governance Ensure analytics practices comply with regulatory requirements and internal data governance policies. Ensure high-quality data sourcing, cleansing, and integration from multiple systems. Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and consistency across reporting platforms. Promote data governance best practices and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. Team and Stakeholder Management Lead, mentor and develop a strong team of data analysts, fostering a collaborative, innovative and client-centric culture. Prioritize and manage multiple initiatives with competing deadlines while communicating progress to senior leadership and key business partners. Technology & Tools Guide the selection and implementation of analytics tools and platforms. Stay current with emerging technologies and methodologies in data science, artificial intelligence and banking analytics. Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field (required). Master's degree or PhD with a focus in a quantitative discipline (preferred). 8+ years of experience in data science and analytics, preferably within the banking or financial services industry, with at least 2-3 years of experience in a leadership or managerial role. Proficiency in data visualization (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and analytics tools (e.g. SQL, Python, R). Strong understanding of banking products, financial statements, regulatory environment, bank KPIs. Benefits and Compensation Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance. (Base Pay Range: $148,000 - $225,000/year) Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being-now and in the years to come-are important to us. Busey's Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit Busey Total Rewards for more information. Equal Opportunity Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey's commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. Visit Busey.com/Careers to learn more about Busey's Equal Opportunity Employment. Unsolicited Resumes Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails