Overview

Position Title: Financial Crime Data Analyst

Company: Santander UK

Location: Sheffield, UK

Job Description:

A Financial Crime Data Analyst will be leading on various workstreams within FC Analytics team and perform analysis and FC model development. The role cover projects in Transaction Monitoring, Customer Risk Assessment, Customer Due Diligence, and other Financial Crime areas; will be expected to combine a wide range of technical skills with business knowledge to turn vast quantities of data into value.

Responsibilities:

  • Building reproducible data pipelines in a big data environment
  • Analysing data provisioning specification documents, identifying gaps in logic
  • Developing code, design, experiment, and evaluating implementation performance
  • Performing exploratory data analysis
  • Improving methodologies, test model enhancements
  • Communicating with business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them, as well as sharing insights and recommendations
  • Producing and managing process documentation
  • Interacting with internal stakeholders in financial crime controls operations, regulatory governance, and front office.
  • Working with other stakeholders in the company on building production systems and applications

Requirements:

  • Expertise using Python and SQL
  • Experience with distributed computational frameworks (Impala, Hive, Scala, Spark, Hadoop)
  • Experience in design and implementation of production code
  • Experience cleaning and transforming datasets
  • Experience using APIs
  • Experience building data quality reports
  • Experience developing visual analytics (matplotlib, MicroStrategy, Tableau, etc.)
  • Experience with GitLab or other version control systems
  • Ability to manage and engage stakeholders, including third party, to deliver successful projects.

About Santander UK

Our purpose at Santander UK is to help people and businesses prosper. We are a leading financial services provider, offering a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services, with around 15 million customers across our Retail and Corporate Businesses.