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Vice President - Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics Lead - (Transaction Monitoring & Sanctions Screening), London
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Client:
MUFG
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
063297c440eb
Job Views:
6
Posted:
18.07.2025
Expiry Date:
01.09.2025
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Job Description:
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 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.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS
2
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
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 developing, optimising and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring which detect financial crime
* Improves the design, tuning and optimisation of automated monitoring and sanctions screening scenarios
* Leverages regional predictive analytics teams to aggregate analytical learning and drive enhancements in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening
* Improves design, tuning and optimization of sanctions screening systems
* Assists with model validation of TM and sanctions screening systems
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Working to identify detection scenarios.
* Providing analytics support for developing, tuning, optimising and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems.
* Helping to coordinate the implementation of scenarios, which detect financial crime.
* Supporting the development of policies and procedures for AML transaction monitoring life cycle, including reviews of scenario validation, segmentation and optimisation tools.
* Supporting any changes to Sanctions Screening Systems Tuning and Optimization Procedure that would impact sanction screening models and tuning.
* Supporting large strategic optimisation and segmentation program to enhance and tune MUFG’s GFCD Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions Screening Programmes.
* Recommending customer segmentation and optimisation for MUFG’s GFCD monitoring system across multiple lines of business.
* Contributing to the develop of models involving tuning, calibration, segmentation and optimisation.
* Performing model validation, memorialising model selection rationales and defined assumptions.
* Coordinating with regional I&A teams to implement on the global model.
* Collaborating across functional teams within GFCD to ensure effective and efficient operations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
* 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.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Functional / Technical Competencies:
* 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.
Education / Qualifications:
* Degree or equivalent industry standard qualification.
PERSONAL REQUIREMENTS
* Strong leadership skills.
* Ability to manage teams.
* Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
* A proactive, motivated approach.
* The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly.
* Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
* A structured and logical approach to work.
* Strong problem-solving skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
* Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
* A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.
We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.
MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.
We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.
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