Vice President - Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics Lead Transaction Monitoring & Sanc

Overview

You will be supporting our Financial Crime Operations team, delivering against our objectives for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role you will be working within the Operations Intelligence & Analytics (I&A) team, leading a team that provides analytics support to improve transaction monitoring and sanctions screening for financial crime detection.

• Provide analytics support for developing, optimising and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems.
• Improve the design, tuning and optimisation of automated monitoring and sanctions screening scenarios.
• Leverage regional predictive analytics teams to aggregate analytical learning and drive enhancements in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening.
• Assist with model validation of transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems, and identify detection scenarios.
• Coordinate the implementation of monitoring and screening scenarios that detect financial crime.
• Support the development of policies and procedures for the AML transaction monitoring life cycle, including reviews of scenario validation, segmentation and optimisation tools.
• Support changes to Sanctions Screening Systems tuning and optimisation procedures that impact sanction screening models and tuning.
• Support large strategic optimisation and segmentation programs to enhance and tune MUFG s GFCD Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions Screening Programmes.
• Recommend customer segmentation and optimisation for MUFG s GFCD monitoring system across multiple lines of business.
• Contribute to the development of models involving tuning, calibration, segmentation and optimisation.
• Perform model validation and memorialise model selection rationales and defined assumptions.
• Coordinate with regional I&A teams to implement the global model.
• Collaborate across functional teams within GFCD to ensure effective and efficient operations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

• Extensive experience within an area of a global bank, consulting firm or regulatory agency is essential for this role. Strong track record in Transaction Monitoring is required and Sanctions Screening experience is desirable.
• Experience of managing stakeholder relationships within and outside of the local function/role.
• Knowledge of a wide variety of financial crimes compliance laws and regulations.
• Excellent judgement and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Degree or equivalent industry standard qualification.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to manage teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
• Results driven with a strong sense of accountability and a proactive, motivated approach.
• Conflict management skills and the ability to work under pressure with attention to detail.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines, with a calm approach to challenging environments.
• Strong decision-making skills and the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• A structured and logical approach to work and strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Open to flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world s most trusted financial group, it s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility.

This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. In MUFG, we are committed to being the world s most trusted financial group. Our Operations will enable us to increase and enhance the effectiveness of our operational financial crime prevention and detection expertise and oversight, by consolidating and focusing the knowledge, capabilities, insight and experience of our people along with refined and improved processes, training and technologies.

We want to work with ambitious, energetic, service-focused people with experience of working in Financial Crime, who are dedicated to protecting our customers - and the wider global economy, while developing world-class anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) skills and capabilities.