- Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things
- Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience working in the embedded payments space
- Do you want to have the opportunity to high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will work with some fantastic clients and partners
If so, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent to join Modulr, the fastest growing payments business in the UK and Europe, to drive financial crime analytics, systems and workforce planning.
We are looking for a Mumbai based candidate to leverage our Office First strategy but the wider team is based across various locations internationally.
Modulr values
- Building the extraordinary; going that extra mile.
- Owning the opportunity; be passionate and proud of the time you invest.
- Move at pace; reach goals faster whilst supported on your career journey.
- Achieve it together, working collaboratively and being a Modulite.
The role
At Modulr, data is central to how we detect, prevent, and respond to financial crime. Our Financial Crime Operations team relies on accurate insights and robust systems to safeguard our customers and business from threats like money laundering, fraud, and sanctions breaches.
As a Systems and Intelligence Analyst within this team, you will play a key role in transforming data into actionable intelligence and shaping the systems that underpin our financial crime controls. Whether you are building predictive models to identify suspicious behaviour, optimising alert thresholds to reduce false positives, or designing forecasting tools to improve resource planning, your work will directly influence operational effectiveness and regulatory compliance.
This role, at heart, is about continually improving our Financial Crime detection prevention controls effectiveness and sits at the intersection of analytics, technology, and operational excellence helping ensure that our defences against financial crime are not only effective, but also scalable and efficient as Modulr continues to grow.
Specific duties:
- Develop and maintain data models and analytical tools to identify and mitigate financial crime risks, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), fraud, and sanctions breaches.
- Design and implement automation solutions to streamline operational processes and reduce manual effort, enhancing accuracy and efficiency.
- Optimise detection systems and alert configurations to improve signal-to-noise ratio, reduce false positives, and support effective decision-making.
- Build forecasting models to anticipate case volumes and support data-driven resource and capacity planning.
- Contribute to workforce planning initiatives, including scheduling, rota management, and productivity tracking.
- Automate and maintain regular reporting processes to ensure timely and accurate performance insights for key stakeholders.
- Define, track, and report on Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor the health and effectiveness of financial crime operations.
- Contribute to transformation and change initiatives, including the evaluation, implementation, and integration of new systems and third-party vendors.
- Providing assurance of systems and outputs
About you:
- You have experience in operating in a highly regulated environment, with experience of risk and control management along with continuous improvement that drives efficiencies and effectiveness.
- Recognise the importance of good governance and have experience of delivering strong quality of output in an operational function.
- Attention to detail with evidence of strong planning and delivery capabilities
- Good communication and influencing skills, comfortable in being open to challenge but maintaining your position where appropriate
- You re structured and organised, able to handle the competing pressures of immediate tasks alongside longer term projects.
- You re comfortable working in an early-stage business, where time is critical, and things change frequently and enjoy self-leading and working independently in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
- You enjoy sharing your knowledge and sharing your ideas about how we can improve.
- You have a strong focus on automation and efficiency, finding ways to improve outcomes and streamline processes through automation.
- You are focused on delivering a great service to customers, whether they are clients of Modulr, regulators, internal stakeholders, or broader industry participants.
- You love rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever is required to achieve the goals of the operations team and wider business.
- You are analytical and can assess risks and define appropriate controls based on these, communicating the links, effectiveness, and any potential gaps clearly to others.
- You are inquisitive and take proactive approach to problem solving and issue resolution.
Skills and experience we are interested in:
- Experience of working in financial services with good working knowledge of financial crime with a focus on risk control management and continuous improvement
- Experience of working with Product and Technology teams to drive systems improvements and automations.
- Experience reporting and presenting to Senior Management.
- You should understand the regulatory landscape Modulr operate in.
- Assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of measures, controls and procedures put in place to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations.
- Experience maintaining and implementing effective processes, whilst ensuring the correct risk parameters are applied, defining these processes, establish optimal way to achieve goals and embedding tools and procedures to achieve them.
- Knowledge of building apps, automation, machine learning and AI.
- Intimate knowledge of SQL
- Ability to code in Python
- Relevant qualifications and professional certifications.
