Job description
Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform empowering the future of financial services. As a tech company, we enable businesses to easily provide trusted and innovative financial experiences to their customers. Through smart APIs, our partners can embed financial services quickly and compliantly into their own product offerings.
We love what we do and we love our team. We are 850 people from over 60 nationalities - a unique blend of techies, fintech enthusiasts, bankers and entrepreneurs from various industries. Our routines are built around genuinely valuing and exchanging different perspectives as well as actively sharing knowledge as we drive our business as a team. We believe and invest in personal growth.
Job Overview :
As Solaris continues to grow, protecting our business and clients from the risks associated with the payments and transactions we process will be crucial. Our team will be instrumental in guiding and educating internal stakeholders on best practice, embedding a data driven approach to transaction monitoring, and ensuring that our systems and processes are optimised to support business expansion.
As a Fraud & Financial Crime (F&FC) Data Analyst you will form a key part of our approach to the identification of suspicious activity across our platform. This is a new role that combines proactive analysis of payment/transaction trends with the day-to-day management of our transaction monitoring system, rule creation/analysis and varied MI reporting (both internal and external).
We have talented teams across all our functions, and we are always interested in talking to more talented people who want to be a part of this journey.
Your Role:
- Creation & maintenance of proactive transaction monitoring reports, designed to identify, investigate and escalate key financial crime risks from the payments we process
- Creation & maintenance of bespoke financial crime reporting, outlining key client activity and risks to support wider business conversations
- Trend analysis across multiple financial crime typologies (Fraud, Money Laundering etc)
- Design & implementation of appropriate rules in our transaction monitoring system, based on regular transactional/client analysis
- Management of Solaris rule sets and governance of amendments to approach
- Regular presentation of analysis to the Financial Crime management team
- SME input for planned system upgrades/enhancements
- Provision of statistical data for regulatory reporting
- Forming of peer-to-peer relationships with key vendors
We'd Love to See:
- 3+ years’ experience in a financial crime role that has included data analysis
- Working knowledge of financial crime risks in a payments/banking environment
- Demonstrable understanding of industry recognised transaction monitoring systems in a payments/banking environment, such as ARIC by Featurespace, Falcon, Actimize etc
- Fluency in SQL and other widely used programming language such as Java, Python
- Experience of rule coding and implementation in a transaction monitoring environment
- Experience of using Tableau or other data visualisation tools
- Experience with DBT or a solid foundation in SQL data modelling
- Presentation of statistical data to influence leadership decisions
Why Work at Solaris?
- We seek out and hire only exceptional talent, and therefore recognise that each individual brings value and contribution which has made us who we are today.
- We have a tech stack to be proud of and a working environment framed by our values and behaviours.
- We are passionate people who share a common vision, can think big, and thrive on delivering results.
- We value diversity of thought and expect that you bring all of you to work; your passion, creativity and ideas on how we can be the best in the space that we operate in.
- In return we will help you to be the very best that you can, we will support with development, give you opportunities to get involved in key projects and offer exposure to challenges that you may not get in a larger organisation.
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave
- Birthday Policy
- Yearly Performance Bonus
- EAP
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme, with Company contribution
- Membership of our life insurance scheme
- Annual Growth & Development allowance
While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.
Solaris is an equal opportunity employer, embraces diversity and builds an inclusive environment for its employees and customers. We consider all applicants for employment regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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