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.

MUFG has a global network spanning 50+ markets, with over 2,000 offices worldwide, and over 360 years of history. We offer services across commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing, providing stability and expertise in a dynamic financial landscape.

This temporary assignment will be working at MUFG, and may involve working at an MUFG site, you will however be contracted through Magnit Global, a UK registered employment business with the company registration number 05537535.

About the role:

You will be supporting our Financial Crime Operations team, delivering against our objectives for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role you will be working within the Operations Intelligence & Analytics (I&A) team that:

• Provides analytics support developing, optimising and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring which detect financial crime
• Improves the design, tuning and optimisation of automated monitoring and sanctions screening scenarios
• Leverages regional predictive analytics teams to aggregate analytical learning and drive enhancements in transaction monitoring and sanctions screening
• Improves design, tuning and optimization of sanctions screening systems
• Assists with model validation of TM and sanctions screening systems

Key Responsibilities:

• Working to identify detection scenarios.
• Providing analytics support for developing, tuning, optimising and modifying segmentation to improve transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems.
• Helping to coordinate the implementation of scenarios, which detect financial crime. 
• Supporting the development of policies and procedures for AML transaction monitoring life cycle, including reviews of scenario validation, segmentation and optimisation tools.
• Supporting any changes to Sanctions Screening Systems Tuning and Optimization Procedure that would impact sanction screening models and tuning.
• Supporting large strategic optimisation and segmentation program to enhance and tune MUFG’s GFCD Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions Screening Programmes.
• Recommending customer segmentation and optimisation for MUFG’s GFCD monitoring system across multiple lines of business.
• Contributing to the develop of models involving tuning, calibration, segmentation and optimisation.
• Performing model validation, memorialising model selection rationales and defined assumptions.
• Coordinating with regional I&A teams to implement on the global model.
• Collaborating across functional teams within GFCD to ensure effective and efficient operations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

Key Skills/Experience

• Proven track record in transaction monitoring and financial crime detection, with experience in sanctions screening highly desirable.
• Strong experience in a global banking organisations, consultancy, or regulatory environment, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on experience with data engineering and data science techniques: building scalable analytics pipelines, model development, and optimisation frameworks.
• Transaction monitoring system experience would be advantageous such as Actmize, Fiserve AML, SAS AML, FICO TONBELLER, Oracle Mantas.
• Advanced analytical tools and programming languages, experience of Python is essential, advantageous to have exposure to SQL, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Pandas, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of financial crime regulations, including AML, sanctions, and monitoring requirements across EMEA jurisdictions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex analytical insights clearly to senior management and regulatory bodies.
• Degree or equivalent industry-standard qualification in a quantitative, technical, or finance-related discipline.

MUFG is committed to diversity and inclusion, valuing all employees and opposing discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion, or any other protected characteristic. Recruitment decisions are made fairly, focusing on the right skills for the role.

This temporary assignment will be working at MUFG, and may involve working at an MUFG site, you will however be contracted through Magnit Global, a UK registered employment business with the company registration number 05537535.

Magnit Global is a leading, global professional services and technology company. We have been a leader in contingent workforce management since 1991 and work with leading Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations across numerous verticals including consumer electronics, research and development, pharmaceuticals, health services, and many more. To do our best work we need different viewpoints. Therefore, we celebrate diversity and embrace inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strive to ensure that we maintain a positive and enriching work environment for all.