Data Science Manager, Financial Crime

Monzo; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Monzo is seeking a Data Science Manager for its Financial Crime Data Team. You will lead a cross-functional group to detect and mitigate financial crime, working with Product, Risk and Engineering to drive data strategy. You’ll hire, coach and retain top data talent while translating insights into strategic actions.

The role emphasizes autonomous leadership in a fast-growing environment, with opportunities to influence the future of Monzo’s financial crime capabilities.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading data science teams in a fast-growing setting.
• Experience shaping data strategy with senior stakeholders and peers.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with familiarity of BI and analytics tools.
• Experience in financial crime, fraud detection, or similar areas is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional data science team focused on financial crime detection and mitigation.
• Hire, develop and retain top data talent across disciplines.
• Generate insights to steer financial crime strategy and risk management.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk and Engineering to align data initiatives with business goals.

Skills

Data leadership

Stakeholder management

Python

SQL

Data science tools

Team management

Autonomy

Financial crime domain

Job description

We're on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We're waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We're not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo.

London or UK remote | £100,000 to £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + 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 obtuse, complex and opaque.

We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our amazing community suggests features, test the app and give 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 Data Team

As we continue to scale, we're looking for a Data Science Manager to lead one of our key product areas for Financial Crime.

As a Data science manager, you'll be working in an ever changing environment work in collaboration with Product, Risk and Engineering peers and champion the data strategy and lead a cross-functional team.

You’ll help us build and improve these for now and for our future roadmap. We're looking for a leader with hands-on experience, data driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers.

What you'll be working on

You’ll work closely with the Product Managers, engineers, and Financial Crime control owners in an agile product environment. You’ll champion the use of data, bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on improving our efforts in financial crime detection, prevention and mitigation, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats and regulatory requirements.

Your day-to-day

Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts working on making Monzo world class at detecting and fighting financial crime activity.

Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people.

Generate insights that can change the direction of our financial crime strategy.

Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life.

Liaise with risk, product and engineering managers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights.

Requirements

• You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager- at least 2 of them managing a data team larger than 4 people
• You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
• Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
• You know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent
• You're excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business
• You're familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same
• Experience in financial crime, fraud detection, or similar areas (Trust & Safety, Integrity, Security) is a plus.