Vice President - Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics Lead Transaction Monitoring & Sanc
Listed on 2026-02-22
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Finance & Banking
Location: Greater London
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.
OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTIONIn MUFG, we are committed to being the world’s most trusted financial group.
Our Operations will enable us to increase and enhance the effectiveness of our operational financial crime prevention and detection expertise and oversight, by consolidating and focusing the knowledge, capabilities, insight and experience of our people along with refined and improved processes, training and technologies.
We want to work with ambitious, energetic, service-focused people with experience of working in Financial Crime, who are dedicated to protecting our customers – and the wider global economy, while developing world-class anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) skills and capabilities.
NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS2
MAIN PURPOSE OFTHE 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:
Leading 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
- 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.
- Extensive experience within an area of a global bank, consulting firm or regulatory agency is essential for this role. Strong track record in Transaction Monitoring is required and Sanctions Screening experience is desirable.
Functional / Technical
Competencies:
- Experience of managing stakeholder relationships within and outside of the local function/role.
- Knowledge of a wide variety of financial crimes compliance laws and regulations.
- Excellent…
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