Data Science Manager - Financial Crime

February 7

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Monzo Bank

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Monzo Bank is a digital bank based in the UK, known for its innovative app offering a wide range of personal banking services. It provides features such as fee-free spending abroad, automatic bill sorting, early salary payments, and round-up savings. Monzo offers various account types, including joint accounts, under 16s accounts, and savings pots with competitive interest rates. Customers can manage savings, investments, and pensions directly through the app, along with credit and loan options. Monzo emphasizes strong security features and customer support, making banking easy and accessible for its users.

Digital Retail Bank • Fintech • digital banking • smartphone

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🏦 Banking

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• As a Data science manager, you’ll be working in an ever changing environment work in collaboration with Product, Risk and Engineering peers and champion the data strategy and lead a cross-functional team. • You’ll help us build and improve these for now and for our future roadmap. We’re looking for a leader with hands-on experience, data driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers. • You’ll work closely with the Product Managers, engineers, and Financial Crime control owners in an agile product environment. You’ll champion the use of data, bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on improving our efforts in financial crime detection, prevention and mitigation, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats and regulatory requirements. • You’ll help your team grow, hiring new team members, supporting their personal development. You will manage a team with Data Scientists and Data Analysts, working together with Analytics Engineers to drive product innovation and you’ll get to see the impact of all your work in the product changes we make. • We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data folk the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses. • Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts working on making Monzo world class at detecting and fighting financial crime activity. • Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people. • Generate insights that can change the direction of our financial crime strategy. • Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life. • Liaise with risk, product and engineering managers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights.

🎯 Requirements

• You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager- at least 2 of them managing a data team larger than 4 people • You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions • Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines • You know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent • You’re familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same • Experience in financial crime, fraud detection, or similar areas (Trust & Safety, Integrity, Security) is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences • We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. • We can sponsor visas • We can help you relocate to the UK • This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).