Crime jobs in United Kingdom

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Is an experienced role with day-to-day responsibility for executing financial crime model validation activities.

• Define and execute financial crime model validation methodology and activities in accordance with the established validation plan and validation process.
• Ensure that financial crime model validation methods are compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Attest that financial crime models have been properly validated and reported to relevant internal and external parties.
• Ensure that financial crime model validation documentation is complete, consistent, accurate, updated and approved.
• Register and follow up on financial crime model risk validation findings, identified risks and agreed actions.
• Escalate financial crime model risk validation findings issues.
• Provide expert analysis and advice relating to financial crime model risk validation.
• Support the maintenance of methodologies for 2LoD assurance and financial crime model validation.

• Other tasks and activities within the scope of your role or team as required from time to time.

• Experienced within financial crime and being able to demonstrate understanding of the financial crime risks inherent in the asset management and/or insurance sectors and regulatory knowledge relevant to these sectors.
• Experienced in independent validation of AML, Fraud, Risk Rating, Screening models.
• Experienced in independent validation of AML, Fraud transaction monitoring tools and associated models.
• Experienced in model performance testing, back-testing, sensitivity analysis and benchmarking for assessing model effectiveness and identifying any weaknesses, biases or vulnerabilities in the model.
• Proficiency in statistical models for anomaly detection.
• Knowledge in fuzzy matching techniques and effectiveness testing including ATL and BTL testing.
• Strong communications skills, with the ability to liaise and collaborate with Compliance and Business Unit 1LoD model teams and communicate to senior stakeholders.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• [DESIRED] Programme and data analysis skills in Python, R, SQL, SAS or MATLAB for model validation and analytics
• [DESIRED] Feature Engineering and algorithm optimisation including AI-driven detection techniques
• [DESIRED] Cloud platforms knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP) and big data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark)
• (DESIRED) Experience of working with Bridger or similar screening tools

Experience Level: Experienced Colleague

Recruiter: Helen Simons

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.
• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.
• Health & protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader, and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, or neuro-divergent conditions.

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