Lead Data Scientist, Financial Crime

📍London / UK Remote | 💰 £100,000- £140,000 + Benefits | Technology - Data About us: We’re here to make money work for everyone and we're doing things differently. For too long, banking has been obscure, complex, and opaque. We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our amazing community suggests features, tests the app, and gives 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 Team: We're excited to be looking for a Senior Data Scientist in Financial Crime to help build the bank of the future. You'll have the opportunity to work as part of the Financial Crime Data Science team and play a critical role in Monzo’s mission to make money work for everyone. What you’ll be working on As a Data Scientist, you’ll be working in an ever-changing environment where we are building and iterating on our financial crime defense capabilities to ensure we keep Monzo and our customers safe. Our Data Scientists don’t have a permanent assignment to a problem space and might rotate into different financial crime areas after some time. As part of your job, you’ll work closely with product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers in an agile product environment. Your day-to-day - Develop and drive data solutions that improve our ability to fight financial crime and keep customers safe - Conduct deep dives into various Fincrime systems for fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and customer risk to identify key business opportunities - Translate regulatory reporting requirements into highly accurate data models and set the strategy for how we ensure the best possible data accuracy You should apply if: - Reducing financial crime and protecting customers with data-driven strategies sounds fun to you - You are comfortable exploring potentially ambiguous business problems and enjoy finding technical solutions to them The interview process: Our interview process involves 4 main stages: Recruiter Call, Initial Call, Final Interview (Business Fit/Collaboration, Case Study, Technical Interview), and Final Decision. What’s in it for you: 💰 £100,000 - £140,000 base salary + plus stock options 📚Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses, and conferences Equal Opportunity Statement We are actively creating an equitable environment for every Monzonaut to thrive. Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo.