About the team:

Capco’s Data & Analytics Team helps our clients transform every aspect of their business.  We are highly skilled at formulating data and analytics strategy, defining business and technology initiatives across the data management lifecycle, and aligning multi-year strategic roadmaps with client’s business goals. As digital technologies advance and regulations tighten, today’s consumers – and, therefore, today’s businesses – are becoming more aware of the importance of good quality data. We work to establish holistic ways to effectively manage data through the modern data supply chain and facilitate consumption through analytics, modelling, AI, machine learning, dashboarding, and reporting. Capco’s Data & Analytics Team works with a wide range of financial services clients across capital markets, banking & payments (including anti-financial crime), wealth & asset management, insurance and energy domains.

About the Job:

As a member of our Data & Analytics Team, you will work across Capco’s different domains and solution offerings to help break down large problems, develop approaches and solutions. As a Data Scientist, you will create tailor-made solutions from complex client anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-financial crime (AFC) data applying mathematical, problem-solving, and coding skills to manage big data to extract valuable insights for our clients.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Design, develop, and implement predictive and descriptive models to identify and prevent financial crime.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and ensure models meet business needs and regulatory standards.
• Continuously improve and refine models based on feedback and performance metrics.
• Utilize knowledge of AML regulations and financial crime typologies to inform model development and testing.
• Conduct extensive back-testing and stress-testing of models to ensure they perform well under various scenarios.
• Work with large datasets to extract, clean, and preprocess data for model development.
• Apply advanced statistical techniques and methodologies to analyze data and derive actionable insights.
• Communicate complex statistical concepts and findings to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Proactively identify and address challenges related to data, model accuracy, and operational implementation.
• Collaborate with team members to brainstorm and implement innovative solutions to complex problems.

What You’ll Bring with You:

• Proven experience in developing and deploying transaction models in a financial crime or AML context.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, or SQL.
• Solid understanding of statistical methods and their application in real-world scenarios.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive and innovative mindset.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Experience with AML regulations and financial crime prevention strategies.

Why Capco?

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services.  We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change.  As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.  We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees. 

Ready to Take the Next Step? 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.