Financial Crimes - Transaction Monitoring Specialist, Analyst

MUFG • Irving, TX

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Reporting into the one of the team managers under Director of Americas DTO, this new position has been created for the purpose of establishing AML Transaction Monitoring capabilities for MUFG Americas. This position will be responsible for helping to identify detection scenarios, provide analytics support for developing, tuning, optimizing and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring and screening systems, and helping to coordinate the implementation of scenarios, which detect financial crime. The incumbent is responsible for supporting leadership to ensure a globally consistent effort that enables continuing improvement to the transaction monitoring capabilities and further mitigate potential financial crime.

Requirements

• Hands on working knowledge of one or more of the following programming platforms: SAS, Python, SQL, R
• Familiarity implementing, testing or evaluating performance of models.
• Knowledge on quantitative testing and statistical analysis techniques such as name similarity matching, classification accuracy testing, unsupervised/supervised machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic matching, decision trees, etc.
• Proven excellence in execution in complex and demanding situations
• Collaborative with strong interpersonal communication skills
• Systematic thinker
• Detail-oriented and organized execution
• Good presentation skills
• Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, quantitative analysis, economics, computer science, data and technology Sciences or related field is required.

Nice To Haves

• Advance degree a plus.

Responsibilities

• Perform Development of AML Transaction Monitoring Scenario Development and Data Analysis.
• Support large strategic optimization and segmentation program to enhance and tune MUFG’s GFCD Transaction Monitoring Program.
• Recommend customer segmentation and optimization for MUFG’s GFCD monitoring system across multiple lines of business.
• Development of models involving tuning, calibration, segmentation and optimization.
• Coordinate with other regional and Global teams to implement on the monitoring models.
• Work collaboratively across functional teams within GFCD to ensure effective and efficient operations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level