As a Medior Data Scientist Transaction Monitoring, de professional can have social impact by detecting criminal behavior using analytics models to analyze Rabobank transactions of 8+ million customers.

You and your job
Preventing Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing is one of the key aspects for our society and our organization, and as a bank we play a major role in this field. In order to be effective in fighting financial crime, we need smart individuals like de professional who get their energy from looking into data, patterns and behavior of our customers in order to uncover illegal activities. Together with the team de professional will be responsible for optimizing our current rule-based Transaction Monitoring (TM) system and eventually (not on short term) for introducing more advanced analytics methodologies such as Machine Learning into our TM models.

This job requires statistical know-how, an analytical mindset and pragmatic operational expertise. And if done successfully, de professional will make sure that our analysts are able to focus on the true positive alerts hence spend their time on truly value-adding activities. In other words, in this role de professional will be on the front line of fighting financial crime.

Practical examples
Developing and improving detection rules within multidisciplinary teams to uncover patterns linked to illegal activities. Identifying new relevant data sources and evaluating how to integrate them into our models. Working with business experts, model owners, and IT to implement and continuously refine models.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Develop and enhance (parts of) our detection rules, including data analysis, model setup, and writing reliable, well-structured code.
• Identify challenges related to model choices and actively contribute to suitable solutions.
• Collaborate with colleagues including juniors, mediors, IT specialists, and analysts to ensure consistent best practices across the team.

• A Masters degree in Data Science, Econometrics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in data science or data analysis, preferably with large datasets.
• Strong programming skills in Python and PySpark (Azure Databricks experience is a plus.)
• Experience in implementing and maintaining analytical models into production is preferred.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics in a clear and accessible way to business stakeholders to enable swift decisionmaking.
• Excellent verbal and written English skills.

Wensen

• De professional is intrinsiek gemotiveerd om financiële criminaliteit te bestrijden door modellen te bouwen die echte impact creëren.
• De professional werkt gestructureerd en nauwkeurig en communiceert duidelijk.
• De professional werkt effectief samen met collega's in verschillende rollen en neemt initiatief om resultaten te verbeteren.
• De professional gedijt goed in een dynamische omgeving met veel impact.
• Ervaring met Agile werken is een pre.

Rabobank

Optie tot verlenging: 12 maanden met mogelijkheid tot verlenging.

Hybride: vaste kantoordagen: maandag en donderdag

Fee: De administratieve partner rekent een aanvullende fee van € 2,50 boven op het tarief.

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Voertaal: Engels, NL is niet verplicht