Senior Manager, Risk Appetite and Analytics

Lloyds Banking Group
Leeds
1 year ago
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Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Risk Appetite and Analytics

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh / Birmingham / Leeds / London

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About This Opportunity

Economic Crime poses a threat to the safety and security of the Group, our customers, and our communities. We play a key part as one of the largest financial services providers in identifying and preventing Economic Crime (EC).
 

Against a backdrop of a changing threat environment, we must evolve our prevention, detection, and response to ensure that we're responding to the risks of today and the evolution of the threat of tomorrow.
 

We're the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) team with responsibility for managing EC risk (fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions) across our business banking, commercial, and corporate businesses.
 

Between them they have more than 1 million clients from sole traders through to global corporate firms. We've an important part to play help our business achieve their growth aspirations in a safe and sustainable way. So, join us and be part of Helping Britain Prosper to advance our control framework and capabilities.

As a Senior Manager, Risk Appetite and Analytics, you'll use your extensive data analytics expertise to enhance our understanding of client transactional behaviour, inform segmentation and rules within our transaction monitoring systems, and explore opportunities to improve analysis effectiveness through machine learning.

You'll drive improvement in the use of analytics to understand the EC Risk Framework, using data from a range of sources to create actionable, accurate and timely information. Some of this data needs to be developed. You'll support longer term initiatives to redefine our approach to managing risk, replacing manual processes with automated and semi-automated code.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the existing team to develop a robust data modelling capability, guiding customer segmentation and transaction monitoring rules within the Group Transaction Monitoring System, MOSAIC.

Build a robust process for interacting with shared service provides including FCCT and Group Data Office.

Provide analytical content to drive decision making across BCB/CIB Economic Crime Prevention.

Develop a team of analysts to support the transformation journey.

What You'll Need

Proven experience in data analytics, particularly within Economic Crime Prevention.

Strong leadership skills with a track record of managing and developing high-performing teams.

Expertise in data modelling and machine learning.

Excellent communication and partner management skills.

Excellent understanding of RCSA, Workday, JIRA and Confluence as data sources.

About Working For Us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
 

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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