Senior Data Analyst in Anti Money Laundering, Nordea Estonia

We are looking for a Senior Data analyst to help with transaction monitoring development activities. This is an opportunity for you to be a part of one of the most exciting and challenging efforts going on within Nordea on our journey to fight financial crime.

Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. It’s all about making sure that we’re a trusted partner to both our customers and society – the foundation for great customer experiences.

That’s where you come in. Working with us, you’ll help ensure that compliance underpins every decision we make and every action we take.

Together, we are passionate about building a bank that makes a difference – one where you can learn and grow. Will you help us lead the way in embedding compliance to transform the future of banking?
Your future responsibilities
You’ll join Transaction Monitoring Development team within Group Financial Crime Prevention (GFCP), where we set the scene for developing automated transaction monitoring (TM) controls for the entire Nordea Group. The position includes quantitative work in producing business-oriented results.

What you'll be doing:

Drive development initiatives taking end-to-end ownership of deliverables
Work with the team and stakeholders to deliver automated transaction monitoring controls through projects and Agile teams
Access to complex and distributed legacy systems and datasets
Simulation and optimization of existing and new suspicious activity scenarios
User acceptance testing of scenarios
Conduct periodic review and optimize the performance of AML automated controls, as well as present results in simple comprehensive way to non-technical audience
The role is based in Tallinn and the position is likely to require some travelling. Welcome to our team where you can bring your talent and engagement to work in an international and dynamic environment.

Who you are
Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the four key values that guide us in being at our best. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re dependable, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others.

This exciting role will fully utilize your data analysis skills and AML knowledge. Specifically, you are able to access databases and write your own scripts, and to perform all kinds of numerical and statistical analysis.
Your profile and background:
Experience in working in data science, analysis, simulation and optimization
At least intermediate professional level of tools such as Excel, VBA, SQL, R, MatLab; Additional experience with Python, Hadoop and User Acceptance Testing would be an asset
Academic degree in highly quantitative discipline or specialization such as Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, Computer Science
Expertise with a mix of depth and breadth across analytical techniques such as time series analysis, regression analysis
The position requires professional fluency in spoken and written English to be able to communicate with all organizational levels locally and across international borders
Hands-on knowledge of anti-money laundering transaction monitoring and scenario optimization, or related anti financial crime disciplines and activities in the financial services industry
If this sounds like you, we look forward to welcoming you to the team!

More information
At nordea.com, you can read more about us and the role we play in society.

At Nordea, we recruit from the widest possible pool and hire the best person for the job. Because diversity makes us stronger. And once you are on board, you will find that we offer equal opportunities to everyone.
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we start to screen CVs earlier.