Junior Data Scientist, M&G
Fraud & AML Monitoring
+ Share Incentive Plan
International savings and investments company
Open for applications
International savings and investments company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Share Incentive Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly.
Role
Who you are
- The role is open to graduates, career starters, and internal colleagues who are looking to build or develop a career in Data Science, Analytics, and Financial Crime
- You do not need to be a fully‑formed expert. Instead, we are looking for someone with a strong natural aptitude for data, a solid technical foundation and an intuitive ability to use data for real-world insights to prevent financial crime by identifying risks early on
- Ideal for graduates or first‑time data scientists
- Excellent technical development and upskilling support
- Strong opportunity for internal colleagues looking to reskill or progress
- Broad exposure to fraud, AML, technology, operations, and senior stakeholders
- High visibility role offering excellent networking opportunities
- Opportunity to work within a recognised Centre of Excellence
- Exposure to large‑scale change and transformation initiatives
- A strong interest in data, analytics, and financial crime
- Proven experience translating business problems into analytical solutions
- Confidence working with Fraud, Compliance, Technology, and Operations teams
- Strong communication skills to explain data‑driven insights clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences
- A collaborative approach and enthusiasm for working with stakeholders
- An analytical mindset with attention to data quality and accuracy
- Proficiency in:
- The Azure ecosystem, including:
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure DevOps
- Distributed data processing using Spark clusters
- Python for data analysis and modelling; comfort with command-line tools
- SQL for querying and data manipulation
- Power BI and/or Tableau for reporting and insight generation
- Working with automated, cloud‑based data pipelines
- Must be able to connect our data sets in a way that provides an end to end view of the customer journey, and in turn, helps to identify and mitigate fraudulent or suspicious activities
- Must be able to perform ETL tasks, logical/physical data modelling
- If you’re looking for a role that offers technical depth, structured development, business exposure, and long‑term career potential, this is an excellent opportunity to start or grow your career at M&G
What the job involves
- This is an outstanding opportunity to join the Fraud Monitoring and Analysis team within M&G’s Operational Planning Centre of Excellence
- You will receive excellent support, mentoring, and exposure to modern cloud‑based architectures, whilst working on fraud and AML challenges
- The team is a key part of M&G’s Financial Crime Enhancement Programme, a major transformation initiative bringing significant change, expansion, and opportunities to collaborate with multiple teams across the business
- Working across the full solution lifecycle, you will:
- Design and build solutions that enable the delivery of fraud and anti-money laundering monitoring capability across our business
- Be the team expert on Azure Databricks, and support other team members in upskilling in this area
- Be the team expert on Power BI, and support other team members in upskilling in this area
- Support the teams wider activities, assisting in investigation of suspicious transactions from a data standpoint
- Understand how complex data sources connect, to build in automation and to develop a capability to successfully isolate suspicious transactions and behaviours
- Seek out new sources of data, which can be linked to online/offline transactional or customer data to provide new or enhanced insight to the business
- Understand and review how other parts of the business are using data and data tools to see how we can learn, evolve and align
- Build scalable and repeatable solutions that can be introduced in new areas/journeys/products, in line with our focus on building a centre of excellence
- Conduct ongoing data quality assessments to ensure the necessary data is continuously ingested into the appropriate tools/applications that facilitate our transaction monitoring capabilities. This also includes the assessment of the accuracy of the data
- Joining data from multiple sources (Data modelling)
- This is an individual contributor profile wherein the candidate is required to work in collaboration with the team Design and build systems that mine massive datasets and structure/ engineer it to be usable
- As part of a Centre of Excellence, you will help develop best practice that can be shared across M&G
Application process
- Closing Date: 26 April 2026
Our take
Established through a merger with Prudential's UK and Europe operation in 2017, M&G has emerged as a leading savings and investment company. Combining five prominent brands under one umbrella - M&G Real Estate, M&G Investments, Pru, M&G Wealth, and Infracaptial - the company boasts a robust global financial services operation.
M&G's commitment to enhancing its platform's offerings is evident through substantial investments in service and support infrastructure. Innovations such as deep back-office integration, cloud-based customer relationship management tools, and e-signature software underscore the company's dedication to providing top-notch solutions.
Catering to a diverse clientele ranging from individuals to major enterprises, M&G continues to expand its international presence. It reported an impressive £1.8 billion in flows from open business in 2025, and continues to diversify and leverage advancements in AI and Big Data. This approach should help the company maintain its position as a key player in the ever-evolving landscape of savings and investment.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- 8% non-contributory pension plus up to 5% matching
- Life Assurance & Death in Service
- Support, feedback and development programmes to help you reach your full potential
- Flexible culture and ways of working
- Focus on health & wellbeing
- 30 days holiday as standard (excluding bank holidays), with the ability to purchase an additional 5 days
- Time off when you need it includes carer's leave, faith leave, grandparent leave and career breaks
- New parents receive up to 26 weeks of full pay while on leave
- 4-week back-to-work transition for new parents: work 80% of your contractual hours, be paid for 100%
- New parents can take family leave in flexible blocks within the first year of birth/adaoption
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Andrea Rossi
(Group CEO)Co-Founder & Director at REsustain. Former CEO of AXA, and was an FC Girondins de Bordeaux Board Member.
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