Assistant Manager | Financial Crime | Hyderabad or Chennai | Forensic & Financial Crime

Assistant Manager SRT- Forensic & Financial Crime Data Modelling

• Location: Chennai/Mumbai/Bengaluru

The team

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Your work profile

Economic Sanctions and Screening team responsible for developing enhancing and validating sanctions screening frameworks and models. This role plays a pivotal part in fortifying the firms financial crime risk posture by ensuring our screening capabilities align with global regulatory expectations and industry best practices.

• Design and Development:Develop test and optimize sanctions screening frameworks including name and payment screening methodologies.
• Model Enhancement:Evaluate existing sanctions models (fuzzy matching algorithms rules logic thresholds) and propose enhancements based on regulatory guidance and operational feedback.
• Framework Review:Conduct periodic and event-driven reviews of sanctions screening models to ensure continued relevance and compliance with OFAC EU UN and other regulatory standards.
• Scenario Calibration and Tuning:Support tuning and threshold analysis for match scoring leveraging historical alert data and false positive metrics.
• Data Analytics and Insights:Analyze screening outcomes to identify gaps trends and patterns that inform risk mitigation strategies and enhance effectiveness.
• Documentation and Governance:Prepare and maintain comprehensive model documentation validation reports and technical specifications in line with model risk governance frameworks.
• Stakeholder Engagement:Collaborate with compliance officers technology teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements explain model logic and support audits and regulatory reviews.

Key skills required:

Domain Expertise:

• 1-3 years of hands-on experience in sanctions screening framework development tuning and validation.
• Familiarity with leading screening platforms (e.g. FircoSoft Bridger Actimize Oracle Watchlist Screening etc.) and list management practices.
• In-depth understanding of global sanctions regimes (OFAC EU UN HMT) and related regulatory expectations.
• Experience in integrating sanctions screening models with broader AML/CFT frameworks.
• Exposure to AI/ML techniques for entity resolution or fuzzy matching optimization.
• Prior involvement in regulatory examinations or independent validations of screening tools.

Technical Proficiency:

• Strong programming and scripting skills (Python R SQL SAS).
• Experience in data modeling scoring logic calibration and large-scale dataset analysis.
• Analytical Thinking:
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis on alert quality issues.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative problem-solving capabilities.
• Communication:
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical models to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to craft data-backed narratives and present recommendations with clarity.
• Education
• Bachelors Degree / Masters Degree