Monzo
Data Science Manager, Financial Crime
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đ Weâre on a mission to make money work for everyone. Weâre waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award-winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
Weâre not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo â¤ď¸
đLondon or UK remote | đ° ÂŁ100,000 to ÂŁ130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits | Technology - Data
About us
Weâre here to make money work for everyone and we're doing things differently. For too long, banking has been obtuse, complex and opaque.
We want to change that and build a bank with everyone, for everyone. Our amazing community suggests features, test the app and give us constant feedback so we can build something everyone loves.
We're focused on solving problems, rather than selling financial products. We want to make the world a better place and change people's lives through Monzo.
About our Financial Crime Data Team
As we continue to scale, weâre looking for a Data Science Manager to lead one of our key product areas for Financial Crime.
As a Data science manager, youâll be working in an ever-changing environment, work in collaboration with Product, Risk and Engineering peers and champion the data strategy and lead a cross-functional team.
Youâll help us build and improve these for now and for our future roadmap. Weâre looking for a leader with hands-on experience, data-driven strategic leader who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers.
What youâll be working on
Youâll work closely with the Product Managers, engineers, and Financial Crime control owners in an agile product environment. Youâll champion the use of data, bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach. Your work will focus on improving our efforts in financial crime detection, prevention and mitigation, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
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Youâll help your team grow, hiring new team members, supporting their personal development. You will manage a team with Data Scientists and Data Analysts, working together with Analytics Engineers to drive product innovation and youâll get to see the impact of all your work in the product changes we make.
We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives data folk the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.
Your day-to-day
- Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts working on making Monzo world class at detecting and fighting financial crime activity
- Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people
- Generate insights that can change the direction of our financial crime strategy
- Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life
- Liaise with risk, product and engineering managers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights
You should apply if:
- What weâre doing here at Monzo excites you!
- You must have at least 4 years of experience as a Data Science Manager - at least 2 of them managing a data team larger than 4 people
- You are a strong strategic data leader and love to drive decisions
- Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines
- You know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent
- Youâre excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast-growing, ever-evolving business
- You're familiar with using a variety of Data Science tools (from business intelligence, experimentation and causal inference through to machine learning), and coding languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same
- Experience in financial crime, fraud detection, or similar areas (Trust & Safety, Integrity, Security) is a plus.
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The Interview Process
Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions!
- 30-minute recruiter call
- 45-minute call with hiring manager
- 3 x 1-hour video calls with various team members
Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us on tech-hiring@monzo.com.
Whatâs in it for you
- âď¸ We can help you relocate to the UK
- â We can sponsor visas
- đThis role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
- â° We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
- đLearning budget of ÂŁ1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
- âAnd much more, see our full list of benefits here
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and weâre making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, weâre embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.
Weâre an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
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