Global Anti Money Laundering Data Lead

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Summary – Global Anti Money Laundering Data Lead 
The Risk Analytics and Data Services (RADS) team drives value creation through data solutions, advanced analytics, and innovative technologies. The Risk Data Management vertical within RADS focuses on data delivery solutions supporting regulatory disclosures across corporate functions, including but not limited to Treasury, Controllers, Credit Risk, Anti Money Laundering, Know Your Customer and Compliance. Interaction with internal stakeholders and external auditors is required to substantiate the completeness and accuracy of the data deliverables. 
The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in AML compliance and financial crime data analysis—especially in areas like KYC, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and annual risk assessments. This role bridges compliance, risk analytics, and business operations, playing a key part in how we manage AML & KYC functions across the enterprise.

Job title: Specialist
Location: Pune/Bangalore
Experience: 12+ years of relevant experience

Job Duties
• Lead the development of AML data analytics to support the second line’s oversight responsibilities.
• Provide risk insights from KYC, customer behavior, and transaction activity data.
• Develop and maintain risk scoring methodologies aligned with regulatory expectations and internal risk appetite. 
• Support the annual enterprise-wide financial crime risk assessment with robust data-driven analysis. 
• Partner with first-line stakeholders to enhance data quality, monitoring tools, and control effectiveness. 
• Design and maintain dashboards, alerts, and reporting mechanisms for AML and financial crime risks. 
• Contribute to regulatory readiness and respond to internal/external audits and inquiries. 
• Remain up to date with evolving AML regulations, risk typologies, and industry best practices

Qualification:
• Bachelor’s/Master in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance MBA, or a related field and/or equivalent work 
• 7+ years of experience in AML, compliance analytics, or financial crime risk management
• ACAMS certification (or equivalent, e.g., ICA, CFCS)
• Prior experience with PWC, E&Y, Deloitte or KPMG in the AML/KYC compliance space is preferred.

Skills Required
• SQL and data mining/analysis skills is a must have. Ability to analyze data, research data anomalies, and produce summarized analysis, including issues, concerns, and recommendations. 
• Generate metrics/management reports on recurring and adhoc basis and assist with various data remediation efforts as needed. 
    a. Strong knowledge of Excel required (experience with macros/VBA a plus), familiarity with MS Access
    b. Secondary benefit, good written skills and experience creating power point decks.
    c. Experience and familiarity with BI Reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) is desirable.
• Compliance Data Analysis Experience (the candidate must have at least one of these, two would be ideal)
a. KYC – Know Your Client
i.  Risk Scoring
ii. Entity resolution
iii.Key Attributes for annual risk assessments
b. Transaction/Suspicious Activity Monitoring
i.   Wire data (ISO)
ii.  Posted transactions.
iii. Custom processing rules
c. Screening/Watch Lists
i.  Global lists management - Sanctions, PEP and Adverse Media
ii. Filter rules, fuzzy logic, and tokenization
• Vendor Platforms
a. Actimize
b. Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions / Bridger 
c. World Check / Refinitiv
• Familiar with data governance principles and standards

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.