Global Sanctions and AML Model Optimization Expert

5 days ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India MUFG Full time

About MUFG

MUFG, a leading global financial group, is dedicated to being the world's most trusted financial institution. With a rich history spanning over 360 years, our network encompasses over 2,700 locations across more than 50 markets worldwide. Employing over 180,000 professionals, we provide a diverse array of services, including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

We aim to continuously improve our sanctions screening capabilities through close collaboration among our operating companies, ensuring globally consistent efforts that mitigate potential financial crime risks.

This position will be responsible for optimizing and tuning our sanctions models, creating test cases and scripts for testing changes and releases, developing tailored business rules to reduce hit rates, preparing tuning data, reviewing hit reduction strategies, identifying and mitigating sanctions risks through periodic risk assessments, and supporting leadership in implementing globally consistent efforts.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Create and assist with the development of Sanctions and Name Screening Tuning & Optimization Methodology;
  • Plan, design, develop/implement code/configuration for Sanctions and Name screening application;
  • Identify and mitigate sanctions and AML risks through periodic risk assessment on algorithms and rules;
  • Perform data analysis to determine and verify business requirements/issues specification, flows and deliverables for projects;
  • Create statistical representative samples for ATL/BTL testing in order to validate that the sanctions and name screening model is effective and functioning accordingly.

Candidate Profile:

We seek an experienced professional with 6-14 years of experience designing, analyzing, testing, and/or validating BSA/AML models, and/or OFAC sanctions and AML name screening models. You should have a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, or Data Analysis/Programming related degree, and a Master's or Doctoral degree is a plus. Strong knowledge about model risk management and associated regulatory requirements is essential. Additionally, you should have proven track records of solving problems through mathematical and deductive reasoning, familiarity with current compliance rules and regulations, and ability to work collaboratively across functional teams within FCOA and GFCD.

The estimated annual salary for this role is approximately $120,000 - $200,000, depending on your qualifications and experience.



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