Head of Fraud Analytics & Compliance Strategy

UOB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd in Singapore is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to build and enhance fraud analytics capabilities, developing scalable models and dashboards to detect and prevent financial crime. You will work closely with the Compliance and Analytics teams to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical analytical solutions.

The role requires hands-on model development, data wrangling, feature engineering, and communication of results to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, statistics or related fields.
• 5+ years in data science / analytics within tech or finance.
• Experience with fraud/financial crime analytics and large-scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain fraud detection models and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Data Engineering and Business Analysts.
• Refine features, run experiments, and report results.
• Ensure models meet governance, bias, and ethics standards.

Skills

Fraud analytics

Regulatory risk

Data storytelling

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Statistics

Tools

Python

SQL

NLP

Spark

Job description

1011 United Overseas Bank Ltd in Singapore is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to build and enhance fraud analytics capabilities, developing scalable models and dashboards to detect and prevent financial crime. You will work closely with the Compliance and Analytics teams to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical analytical solutions.

The role requires hands-on model development, data wrangling, feature engineering, and communication of results to senior stakeholders.