Senior Data Analyst - Compliance Operations
Nium
IT, Legal, Operations, Data Science
London, UK
Posted on Monday, April 15, 2024
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In this newly created role, Nium is looking for a Senior Compliance Data Analyst to work closely with our Technology, Product and Compliance teams to lead compliance data projects at Nium including: transaction monitoring rule creation, validation and testing; regulatory and bank partner reporting; and drawing other compliance insights from Nium’s data-set to help us build better compliance products and manage risk.
We are looking for a proactive and results orientated candidate who is keen to solve challenging compliance problems at scale in a fast-paced and dynamic environment at the cross-section of technology and financial services.
This role will report to the Global Head of Compliance operations and will closely collaborate with the global Compliance team.
What would a day @ Nium look like?
- Responsible for the creation and ownership of specific transaction monitoring rule sets to support our adaptive behavioral models
- Work directly with customers (internal and external) during a project delivery to gain detailed understanding of the customer, system, process and data. Ensuring that their rules, data and functional requirements are fully extracted, captured and understood by the Risk engine team, and subsequently incorporated to deliver an optimal ARIC solution.
- Act as a Financial Crime industry expert. Liaise with and coach key stakeholders, to ensure an aligned approach to Financial Crime prevention and understanding of underlying trends.
- Own the creation of standard best practice rules aligning to our standard products and data schemas to aid simple streamlined project deployments to our customers.
- Become an expert using our internal rules language. Holding a deep technical understanding of how rules are built, perform efficiently.
- Deliver on the job coaching to develop other team members (e.g. design of analysis, problem solving techniques, Financial Crime/Fraud trends and prevention techniques).
- Assist in handling rules-based support queries.
- Support the Compliance and Fraud teams to deeply understand the patterns within historical data sets in order to build efficient rules that complement our models and demonstrate our excellence as a market leader in adaptive behavioral analytics.
Which Skills & Experiences will make you successful?
- 3-5 years’ experience in a similar data analytical role preferably in the Fintech sector and within organisations with cross-jurisdictional operations.
- Proven ability to analyse complex data, draw meaningful insights, and provide clear business recommendations based upon that analysis.
- Excellent data mining and data manipulation skills, with a proficiency using Excel and SQL.
- Strong interest in Financial Crime and Fraud prevention.
- Experience in developing documentation that meets regulatory standards and audit requirements, ability to clearly document and articulate required fraud prevention activities specific to each customer use case.
- Extensive hands-on experience in working within a Financial Crime strategy, analytics or operations environment. A detailed knowledge of Financial Crime prevention at an international level across varied verticals and payment types
- Ability to work independently, under pressure and to tight deadlines, managing competing priorities.
- Ability to take ownership and drive projects forward.
- Able to operate in a global, virtual environment.
- Collaborate and engage with a variety of individual stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead workshops and present to customers and internal stakeholders at all levels