Data Science Manager, Financial Crime

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

📍London or UK remote | 💰 £100,000 to £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits | Technology - Data

About us

We’re here to make money work for everyone and we're doing things differently. For too long, banking has been obtuse, complex and opaque.

We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our amazing community suggests features, test the app and give us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves.

We're focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products. We want to make the world a better place and change people's lives through Monzo.

About our Financial Crime Data Team

As we continue to scale, we’re looking for a Data Science Manager to lead one of our key product areas for Financial Crime.

As a Data science manager, you’ll be working in an ever changing environment work in collaboration with Product, Risk and Engineering peers and champion the data strategy and lead a cross-functional team.

You’ll help us build and improve these for now and for our future roadmap. We’re looking for a leader with hands-on experience, data driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers

What you’ll be working on

You’ll work closely with the Product Managers, engineers, and Financial Crime control owners in an agile product environment. You’ll champion the use of data, bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on improving our efforts in financial crime detection, prevention and mitigation, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats and regulatory requirements.

You’ll help your team grow, hiring new team members, supporting their personal development. You will manage a team with Data Scientists and Data Analysts, working together with Analytics Engineers to drive product innovation and you’ll get to see the impact of all your work in the product changes we make.

We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data folk the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

Your day-to-day

Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts working on making Monzo world class at detecting and fighting financial crime activity

Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people

Generate insights that can change the direction of our financial crime strategy

Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life

Liaise with risk, product and engineering managers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights

You should apply if

What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!

You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager- at least 2 of them managing a data team larger than 4 peopl