Financial Crime Data Analytics Manager

GoHenry is a UK-based fintech company created by parents to pioneer financial education. More recently, GoHenry moved into Europe and the US by joining forces with French fintech company Pix Pay and US investing app, Acorns.

Together, Acorns, Pix Pay, and GoHenry have over 6 million members across 5 countries. We are focused on empowering families with engaging money management tools, educational content, and a seamless product experience that creates financial well-being from birth to adulthood.

We are looking for an experienced and self-driven Financial Crime Data Analytics Manager to work in a Financial Crime team that ensures adherence to GoHenry’s data management standards within Financial Crime, focusing on transaction analytics, oversight of internal fraud risk management model, fraud and AML process transformation key stakeholder data insights reporting, including Board and external partners.

You'll lead data analysis, deliver business requirements, oversee data quality remediation and provide strategic and insightful data advisory services. As part of this role you will have one direct report to whom your leadership skills will play an integral part in driving them forward to meet department strategy. We are looking for someone who is a self-starter, who is motivated to kick-start projects, welcomes challenges, seeks feedback from others, asks “How can I help” and then “How can we make this better”, and shows perseverance on long-term goals, and generally goes above and beyond in their work.

This is a permanent full-time role (37.5 hours a week). Flexibility will be required to work different hours as and when needed by the successful candidate to ensure the best level of service is provided to our GoHenry members.

The Financial Crime team is split across our London and Farnborough Offices, and this role can be based out of either office, on a hybrid basis. Please note that travel to our Farnborough office will be required.

You will work as part of a Financial Crime data analytics and insights team within a dedicated risk management function, as well as maintaining close contact with the Financial Crime transaction monitoring team and other relevant product and operational roles.

• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.

• Contribute to the development of the overall strategy for delivering a new, long-term, fit-for-purpose payment systems infrastructure.

• Identify any new technologies that could be implemented to improve our Financial Crime framework.

• Monitor and identify opportunities to iterate and enhance our in-house fraud risk management model that would help manage risk exposure within appetite

• Provide immediate and wider management with insightful data reports with data sourced from informed queries of transactional data.

• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

• Ensure all monthly partner Fraud and AML compliance reporting is completed in full and on time

• Work with the wider Financial Crime team and Compliance team to ensure business systems and controls are adequately documented and tested.

• Experience working in teams delivering transformation of systems/processes.

• A strong background in fraud prevention activities and providing insightful data analytics advice relative thereto

• The ability to think strategically and get involved at a practical level to deliver detailed changes.

• Expert knowledge of card payments and payment systems, as well as experience with transaction risks associated thereto.

• You will be someone who goes the extra mile to manage their team, peers, and managers

• You will be highly proficient…