Northern Operating Services - Data Lead - Global Anti Money Laundering

Job title: Specialist.

Location: Pune/Bangalore.

Experience: 12+ years of relevant experience.

Job Duties

- Lead the development of AML data analytics to support the second lines oversight responsibilities.

- Provide risk insights from KYC, customer behavior, and transaction activity data.

- Develop and maintain risk scoring methodologies aligned with regulatory expectations and internal risk appetite.

- Support the annual enterprise-wide financial crime risk assessment with robust data-driven analysis.

- Partner with first-line stakeholders to enhance data quality, monitoring tools, and control effectiveness.

- Design and maintain dashboards, alerts, and reporting mechanisms for AML and financial crime risks.

- Contribute to regulatory readiness and respond to internal/external audits and inquiries.

- Remain up to date with evolving AML regulations, risk typologies, and industry best practices.

Qualification:

- Bachelors/Master in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance MBA, or a related field and/or equivalent work.

- 7+ years of experience in AML, compliance analytics, or financial crime risk management.

- ACAMS certification (or equivalent, e., ICA, CFCS).

- Prior experience with PWC, E&Y, Deloitte or KPMG in the AML/KYC compliance space is preferred.

Skills Required

- SQL and data mining/analysis skills is a must have.

- Ability to analyze data, research data anomalies, and produce summarized analysis, including issues, concerns, and recommendations.

- Generate metrics/management reports on recurring and adhoc basis and assist with various data remediation efforts as needed.

- Strong knowledge of Excel required (experience with macros/VBA a plus), familiarity with MS Access.

- Secondary benefit, good written skills and experience creating power point decks.

- Experience and familiarity with BI Reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.

Compliance Data Analysis Experience (the candidate must have at least one of these, two would be ideal)

- KYC Know Your Client.

- Risk Scoring.

- Entity resolution.

- Key Attributes for annual risk assessments.

- Transaction/Suspicious Activity Monitoring.

- Wire data (ISO).

- Posted transactions.

- Custom processing rules.

- Screening/Watch Lists.

- Global lists management Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media.

- Filter rules, fuzzy logic, and tokenization.

Vendor Platforms

- Actimize.

- Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions / Bridger.

- World Check / Refinitiv.

- Familiar with data governance principles and standards.