Financial Crime Analytics Analyst

**The role in a nutshell**

As an Anti-Financial Crime Analyst, you'll be focusing on building and empowering the Anti-Financial Crime Analytics team with the Analytics Manager. You'll also be working closely with other Anti-Financial Crime team members. You'll be facilitating cross-team projects, helping shape our platform to reward genuine behaviour and identify and respond to unusual or suspected behaviour, whilst contributing to our growth plan.
- There are five people in the team, all based in Cape Town. You will report to the Analytics Manager who is based in Cape Town.

Our vision is to become the best Anti-Financial Crime team in the industry, globally

**Your mission will involve**
- Identifying opportunities for enhancement and coming up with recommendations based on data driven assessments and analysis of Anti-Financial Crime systems and processes.
- Helping to build a platform which rewards good customer behaviour by reducing friction and identifying and responding to unusual or suspect behaviour.
- Helping to scale the capability and capacity of the team through the use of technology and data analysis.
- Implementing machine learning technology to maximise the use of our technology solutions.
- Leveraging Anti-Financial Crime technologies to identify patterns which alert us to risk including:

- Behavioural analysis risk scoring;
- Network analysis; and
- Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist / Proliferation Financing systems..
- Assist in developing and implementing automated friction focused on:

- Proactive monitoring;
- Penetration;
- Efficiency; and
- Optimisation.
- Creating and maintaining metrics dashboards to enable key risk indicators for monitoring, reporting and escalation.
- Providing input into new products from an Anti-Financial Crime Analytics perspective.
- Assisting with the preparation of reports which measure the effectiveness of the team as well as our technology solutions.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and implement new tools and features from an Anti-Financial Crime Analytics perspective.

**In your first six months, you will**:

- Have a thorough functional understanding of Luno's Anti-Financial Crime tools and integrations.
- Support the execution of the Anti-Financial Crime Analytics team's initiatives.
- Identify and understand the challenges posed to the Anti-Financial Crime team and propose unique and cutting edge solutions to overcome these challenges.
- Gain exposure to cryptocurrency, Anti-Financial Crime and customer security.

**The ideal Lunaut for this role, will have**:

- A relevant Degree, Diploma from an accredited college/university in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Math or a related quantitative field of study.
- A minimum of 2 years experience within SQL, experience within Databricks is a plus but not mandatory.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in data analysis or investigative roles within Anti-Financial Crime Services, specifically using technology to mitigate Financial Crime and associated threats and vulnerabilities.
- Proven functional understanding of Anti-Financial Crime and Machine Learning technologies (e.g. Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist / Proliferation Financing systems, customer screening and transaction monitoring, network analysis, etc.).
- Ability to conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses of large and complex data as it relates to the project requirements in the Anti-Financial Crime space.

**Life at Luno**
- Forward-thinking and ambitious team that values diversity, hard work, and the continuous quest for excellence.
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance.
- Free training courses on Udemy and CodeAcademy.
- Generous maternity / paternity and even paw-ternity for your furry friend.
- Annual Inspiration Day.
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts.
- Free lunch and snacks.
- Free access to Headspace - a full library of guided meditations, sleep stories, and music.
- 0 fees with Luno from the day you start.* (*_Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange)_

**Life at Luno**

Luno makes it simple to buy, store and explore crypto. More than 11 million people have chosen to invest in crypto with Luno using our platform, which is available on Apple, Android and as a desktop experience. We've enabled over $52bn of transactions and we securely store over $1bn for our customers around the world.

Our mission is to put the power of crypto in everyone's hands because we believe that giving people access to a robust and fair financial system is a basic human right. We are with customers at every step of their investment journey with clear, jargon-free information and an easy-to-use app experience