Data Scientist, Financial Crimes - USDS

Responsibilities

About the team

USDS Financial Crime Compliance is responsible for overseeing and operationalizing all aspects related to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Compliance activities related to Tik Tok USDS's operations. Collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders across the U.S. and globally, we address complex and cutting-edge challenges, which include the identification of money-laundering, terrorist financing and sanction violations. We seek a highly motivated, experienced, and dynamic professional to join our team.

• Develop, implement, and optimize machine learning models to detect money laundering, fraud, and other financial crimes, leveraging techniques such as anomaly detection, clustering, and predictive modeling.
• Analyze large volumes of transactional and user data to identify suspicious patterns or behaviors indicative of financial crimes.
• Perform data analysis to support transaction monitoring, sanction, KYC and high-risk investigation teams, including performing ad-hoc data analysis, that assist Financial Crime Compliance leadership in decision-making and strategic planning processes.
• Design and implement data visualization dashboards and reporting tools to communicate insights and findings from financial crime detection efforts.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to design, develop, validate, and implement AML scenarios, and conduct threshold tuning to optimize performance.
• Document and manage projects related to threshold tuning, scenario design, and detection methodologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and operations to integrate machine learning solutions into existing systems and processes.
• Perform special projects, and additional duties and responsibilities as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree (Ph.D. is a plus) in Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science Engineering or a similar Quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience in data analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning , with a focus on financial crime compliance or related domains.
• Proficiency in programming languages Python, HQL, Neo4J, Spark as well as experience with machine learning libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, Tensor Flow, PyTorch).
• Experience with data visualization tools and techniques for creating interactive dashboards and reports (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, matplotlib).
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to work with large datasets to extract actionable insights.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with big data technologies and distributed computing platforms (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
• Experience working in financial crime compliance, including anti-money laundering (AML).
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts into clear and concise insights for non-technical stakeholders.

Content that this role interacts with includes images, video, and text related to every-day life, but it can also include (but is not limited to) bullying; hate speech; child safety; depictions of harm to self and others, and harm to animals. Hence, it is possible that this role will be exposed to harmful content on a daily basis.

Tik Tok recognises that keeping our platform safe for the Tik Tok communities is no ordinary job which can be both rewarding and psychologically demanding and emotionally taxing for some. This is why we are sharing the potential hazards, risks and implications in this unique line of work from the start, so our candidates are well informed before joining.

We are committed to the wellbeing of all our employees and promise to provide comprehensive and evidence-based programs, to promote and support physical and mental wellbeing throughout each employee's journey with us. We believe that wellbeing is a relationship and that everyone has a part to play, so we work in collaboration and consultation with our employees and across our functions in order to ensure a truly person-centred, innovative and integrated approach.

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