Head of Continuous Monitoring, Nordics i Stockholm

Monitoring, Analytics, Intelligence, Investigations

Would you like to the get a unique and exciting opportunity to assist in building “the best in class” Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics function and lay the foundations for the future?

We are now looking for a Head of Continuous Monitoring, who will be responsible for building continuous analytics and intelligence monitoring capability to support the Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics function and the wider Group Financial Crime Prevention area.

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on. Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. Joining us means you’ll have an impact on how we do banking – today and tomorrow. So, bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger. 

Welcome to the Financial Crime Intelligence & Analytics (FCIA).

FCIA is Nordea’s Financial Crime Intelligence and Analytics unit, providing specialist capabilities to support enterprise wide Complex Investigations, Proactive Strategic Intelligence and Financial Crime Threat Management.

FCIA also provides subject matter expertise to support analytics initiative to drive great efficiency and effectiveness across traditional financial crime monitoring and detection capabilities.

As the Head of Continuous Monitoring you will play a leadership role in establishing an outstanding financial crime organisation and be responsible for building next generation analytics monitoring capabilities, monitoring more complex typologies that identify risk of a more complex nature. This includes the ongoing monitoring of financial crime profiles, thematic typologies and behavioural outliers.

What you will be doing:

• Managing a team of skilled analysts and product owners, designing solutions to support complex investigations and intelligence assignments and building processes and governance for continuous monitoring solutions
• Owning the FCIA Data Strategy
• Application ownership to the FCIA Products being developed (Network Analysis, Payment Visualisation, Continuous Monitoring toolsets)
• SME on projects to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Transaction Monitoring (Segmentation, Event Triage, utilisation of FCIA tools)
• Coordinating and leading a complex portfolio of delivery within a wider Financial Crime Change Programme
• Stakeholder management will be important in this role. To be successful you must have the capability and knowledge to influence and advise senior management within Nordea

The role is based in any of the Nordic capitals.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have excellent communication skills
• Are personable and work well within a team environment
• Act with integrity and are comfortable in challenging conversations
• Have a strong cultural awareness and a dynamic approach, willing to take on extra responsibilities when needed

Your experience and background:

• Experience in building an effective team of highly skilled specialists with a hybrid skillset across investigations, intelligence development and analytics
• The expertise and experience in designing and building operational services for investigations and intelligence development
• Excellent experience in developing solutions for the monitoring and detection of Financial Crime risk
• Experience in change management and implementing change in a large organisation
• Career experience gained within a large, multi-national business and the ability to operate in a complex environment
• Financial Crime Knowledge
  • In depth Financial Crime experience (at least 8 years) in a top tier Financial Institution
  • Strong technical understanding covering AML, Sanctions and ABC
  • Up to date knowledge of the European Financial Crime regulatory framework
• FI Data
  • Subject matter expert in Financial Crime data with proven track record in transforming raw data into meaningful and actionable intelligence
  • Several years’ experience in utilising analytic tools for data exploration, analysis and visualisation within the Financial Services / Financial Crime industry
  • Experience in statistical modelling and big data technologies (Hadoop / Graph Databases)
  • In-depth understanding of a Financial Institutions systems infrastructure (Customer, Transactional, Payments) and Financial Crime monitoring and detection systems
• Formal Qualifications
  • Academic Degree
  • AML (ACAMS, ICA) or Investigations qualifications

If it sounds like you, get in touch!

Submit your application no later than 25 September 2019.

For more information, you are welcome to contact Alex Meehan, .

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.