Societe Generale

Responsibilities

The calibration of a transaction monitoring scenario is the process of setting thresholds to target suspicious transactions or behavior. A scenario is a rule or algorithm designed based on the money laundering/terrorism finance risks associated with transactions or accounts, which is used to detect unusual transactions or behaviors by triggering alerts that are further investigated in order to detect Money Laundering/Terrorism Finance.

Thus, the role of the Data Analyst is to perform recurrent and ad-hoc studies of financial crime scenarios, reviewing their outputs, setting new threshold for their parameters.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Calibration of Financial Crime Compliance Scenarios, employing statistical analysis and Group’s models.
• Data analysis: extraction of data, cleaning, analyzing, visualizing in order to support conclusions and support decision-making.
• Perform ad-hoc studies relevant for the optimization of financial security scenarios, the number of generated alerts.
• Analyzes the pertinence of generated alerts and proposes new tresholds ensuring operational efficiency of scenarios, as well as the quality of generated alerts.
• KPI reporting: Data recovery; Data consistency check (consistency of figures, monitoring of threshold variations, etc.), iterative work with the poles;
• Regular dashboard production and data analysis; Writing comments and drawing conclusions;
• Operational Committee & Annual review of scenarios: Production/Analysis of KPIs over the period; Preparation of the Operational Committee support draft.
• Recurrent data mining tuning with Financial Intelligence team thanks to keyword data analysis using python technology, and weekly review of data research results on banking transactions.

Profile required

Expected professional skills:

• Good knowledge of SAS, SQL or other similar programming language
• Statistical Analysis
• Data analysis
• Tableau or other Business Intelligence tool
• Analytical thinking and ability to work with logical propositions and operators
• English written and spoken level B2, good level of French would be a plus
• Knowledge related to Anti Money Laundering, financial crime detection or strong motivation to evolve in this field is required.

Expected key behavioral skills

• Good interpersonal skills, responsiveness, ability to communicate with the central structure located in another country, sense of service, flexibility
• Efficiency, team spirit and ability to evolve in a fast and demanding work environment
• Autonomy and sense of organization (management of priorities and deadlines)

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Graduate in Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, Banking or Computer Science fields (Master or without);
• +2 years of relevant experience in statistics, risk modelling, risk scoring, AML calibration

Why join us

SG GSC is a Great Place to Work® certified company. Here, you will find a flexible workplace and culture, autonomy, constant learning opportunities, dynamism, and talented people, making this experience a real career accelerator. You will also discover all the diversity of our businesses, in a sector that is constantly evolving and innovating.

If you feel like ambitiously pursuing your goals, then you have come to the right place.

Plus, you will enjoy all our benefits:

• competitive compensation & remuneration, including annual performance bonus;
• preventive healthcare plan, and group health & life insurance;
• wide range of flexible benefits within a monthly budget;
• office perks, wellbeing and mental health programs;
• various social benefits and bonuses for personal or family events;
• 9-to-5 workday & hybrid model with work from home enablement bonus at onboarding;
• additional paid and unpaid time off, including Sabbatical leave;
• learning and growth opportunities based on individual development and career plans;
• unlimited access to various eLearning resources.

Business insight

We are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we are proud to make diversity a strength for our company. Societe Generale is committed to recognizing and promoting all talents, regardless of their beliefs, age, disability, parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, membership of a political, religious, trade union or minority organisation, or any other characteristic that could be subject to discrimination.