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Data Science Manager, Financial Crime

Monzo
Cardiff
3 weeks ago
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Data Science Manager, Financial Crime We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We're waving goodbye to theplicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things toe beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest andbine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature,bined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo
London | UK remote | £110,000 to £130,000 + Stock Options + Benefits | Hear from the team

About us:

We're here to make money work for everyone and we're doing things differently. For too long, banking has been obtuse,plex and opaque.

We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our amazingmunity suggests features, test the app and give us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves.

We're focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products. We want to make the world a better place and change people's lives through Monzo.

About our Financial Crime Data Team:

As we continue to scale, we're looking for a Data Science Manager to lead one of our key product areas for Financial Crime.

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

What you'll be working on: 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 wholepany. 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.

Your day-to-day

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 structuringplex 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


You should apply if:
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 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 excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business 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.
The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!
30 minute recruiter call 45 minute call with hiring manager 3 x 1-hour video calls with various team members
Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on tech-hiring@monzo

What's in it for you:

We can help you relocate to the UK

We can sponsor visas

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).

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.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

+And much more, see our full list of benefits here

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage Job ID 5758065

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