PEP Screening and Strategy Lead – Analytics

🕒 March 18

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Capitex

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11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

📋 Compliance

🎯 Recruiter

Finance • Compliance • Recruitment

Capitex is a specialist provider of anti-financial crime staffing and solutions. The company offers both interim and permanent staffing solutions, deploying tactical teams for financial crime compliance resources. With a proven track record in areas such as KYC, AML, fraud, and transaction monitoring, Capitex operates a flexible and scalable resource model to support time-critical projects. Led by Founder and Group CEO Tyler Sullivan, Capitex ensures a reliable and cost-efficient solution for clients through its experienced team. Based in London and Dubai, the company provides a full turn-key solution including outsourcing processes like staff deployment, training, and logistical support.

📋 Description

• Strengthen Global PEP Screening: Lead initiatives to advance and harmonize PEP screening capabilities across all regions, aligning risk detection and mitigation objectives with regulatory standards while maintaining a frictionless customer experience. • Strategic Frameworks & Roadmaps: Partner with First Line of Defense advisory, product management, engineering, and business units to design strategic frameworks and long-term roadmaps for global screening initiatives. • Solution Design & Implementation: Oversee the full lifecycle of PEP screening solutions—from conceptual design to implementation—ensuring scalability, performance, and compliance with business and regulatory objectives. • Regulatory Translation & Delivery: Analyze evolving regulatory requirements and collaborate with regional MLROs to develop business requirement documents (BRDs), transforming guidance into precise, data-driven technical solutions. • Cross-Functional Execution: Work hand-in-hand with engineering teams to operationalize regulatory changes, deploy system enhancements, and ensure accuracy and integrity in production environments. • List Management & Risk Definition: Collaborate with advisory and policy teams to continuously refine PEP list definitions, classifications, and thresholds to ensure comprehensive coverage and regulatory alignment. • Advanced Analytics & Optimization: Conduct in-depth data exploration and statistical analysis to identify inefficiencies within screening workflows, proposing actionable improvements to enhance precision and efficiency. • Insight & Decision Support: Analyze complex, large-scale datasets to extract meaningful insights, develop recommendations, and communicate findings that support key business and compliance decisions. • Mentorship & Development: Provide technical guidance, coaching, and strategic direction to junior data scientists, fostering skill development and analytical excellence within the team. • Production Integration: Ensure seamless integration and real-time deployment of analytical solutions in partnership with engineering, maintaining system reliability and robust performance standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) with a minimum of five years of relevant work experience in financial crime, compliance analytics, or data science. • Minimum five years of experience in sanctions transaction screening, profile screening, PEP and adverse media screening, and AML programs, including at least three years in data analytics or data science. • Strong understanding of global sanctions and PEP programs administered by OFAC, EU, UN, CSSF, and related regulators, including associated risk typologies. • Advanced proficiency in SQL (Google Cloud BigQuery), Python (Pandas, NumPy, PySpark), R, Tableau, and Power BI. • Demonstrated expertise in data structure analysis, profiling, and query optimization. • Familiarity with Lexis Nexis World Compliance+ and other leading screening data sources. • Working knowledge of Hadoop, Hive, Jupyter Notebooks, and modern data warehouse technologies. • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate analytical findings into clear, actionable business recommendations. • Proven success in developing data-driven solutions for complex compliance challenges and collaborating effectively across multi-disciplinary teams. • High intellectual curiosity, strategic problem-solving ability, and comfort navigating ambiguity in dynamic, fast-paced environments. • Strong project leadership, analytical, and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently. • Adept at presenting complex quantitative analyses to diverse stakeholders in a concise, accessible manner. • Results-oriented, proactive mindset with a passion for innovation, data integrity, and advancing global compliance initiatives.