Data Science Manager, Financial Crime
About the role
Data Science Manager leading the Financial Crime data team to improve detection, prevention and mitigation of financial crime through data-driven leadership and collaboration with Product, Risk and Engineering.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!
- 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
- Strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
- Experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
- Know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent
- Autonomous working style to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business
- Familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (BI, experimentation, causal inference, ML) and coding languages (Python and SQL)
- Experience in financial crime, fraud detection, or similar areas (Trust & Safety, Integrity, Security) is a plus
Skills
Benefits
- Relocation help to the UK
- Visa sponsorship
- Hybrid/flexible UK-based role with occasional London meetings
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
- Full list of benefits available on the company careers page
About Monzo Bank
A bank as smart as your phone.
YC has written a good overview of our business on their blog: https://blog.ycombinator.com/monzo-makes-money-work-for-everyone/ Our mission is to make money work for everyone. We are the UK's leading digital bank for individuals and businesses, reinventing the traditional banking industry one customer at a time. We're relentlessly mission driven and always put our customers first - from what products we chose to launch next to our transparency and use of simple language. With a Net Promoter Score of 70+, it shows. From our founding in 2015, we now have over 7 million customers in the UK (13% of UK adults) and are building out our team in the US. We've seen incredible organic growth, acquiring 150,000 customers / month in 2022, with 80% of this coming from word of mouth. Our weekly active user rate is ~60% and ~40% of our active users use us as their Main Bank account, showing that we are a product that is embedded in our users' daily lives. We've grown to ~2,450 staff (~400 of which make up the product/tech team), and are backed by YC, Stripe, Tencent, Mike Moritz, and others. Internally, we encourage an open, collaborative, and inclusive working environment - we were voted the #1 startup where people in the UK want to work for the second year running in 2022. We contribute to open source software, and we continually engage with our wonderful community. We're hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us!
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