Surveillance Analytics

Job Title: Surveillance Analytics
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
To achieve our goals, the team works with our technology partners, Financial Crime/Compliance Transformation, which provide services in the development of data and technology architecture - such as the implementation and technical management of Transaction Monitoring systems and the development of data architectures and analytics platforms.

What will you be doing?
- To assist with further development of the Money Mules control environment, and to assist collaborative efforts with other internal teams
- Support the growth and scope of the Financial Crime Analytics team through the generation of ideas. This will involve engaging with key stakeholders to identify their key problems and needs, and keeping up-to-date with external industry development through own research and attending key peer-group meetings and conferences.
- Provide support to aid in the development of junior team members both from a technical perspective and provided business requirements -driven direction.
- Provide hands-on analytics support to the AML Transaction Monitoring team in areas such as threshold tuning/optimization, customer/account segmentation and data-driven decision making and insights. This will involve techniques such as hypothesis testing, regression analysis, optimization methods and clustering analysis.
- Provide analytics support to the AML Investigations team in areas such as the development of case-prioritization scoring processes, enhanced alert-case merging and ad-hoc insight requests.
- Support in activity relating to the Banks Model Risk Management policy where required.
- Engage with our internal Technology team to provide requirements on the development of strategic data infrastructure ensuring that our infrastructure capability aligns to the needs of the Financial Crime Analytics team as well as to the needs of our wider stakeholders.
- Assist and manage the running of regular analytical processes.

What we’re looking for:
Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience. Note: experience requirements must not be in the form of years (minimum or otherwise).
- Awareness of financial crime risks and trends
- Ability to challenge and to be innovative
- Be proactive (self-starter)
- Highly articulate - good communicator both written and oral
- Good interpersonal skills, relationship management

Skills that will help you in the role:

- A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline with a significant Statistics component (Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Computational/Mathematical Finance, Physics, Economics/Econometrics).
- Minimum 4+ years hands-on experience in the use of statistical analysis and data manipulation tools (SAS, SQL, R, Python, Tableau, JavaScript) - SAS experience preferred.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in rule development for fraud prevention, money mule identification or AML Transaction monitoring will be advantageous
- Experience in managing the scheduled running of regular processes, in SAS and SQL, would be beneficial.
- Experience with visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Sportfire, Qlikview) beneficial.
- Exposure/Experience with distributed-data architecture (Hadoop/MapReduce, Spark) and cloud architecture (e.g. AWS) a plus.

Where will you be working?
Pune

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