Transaction Monitoring Manager London

Plenitude Consulting; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in City Of London is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Transaction Monitoring projects for banking clients. The ideal candidate will possess strong compliance risk understanding, experience in project management, and technical skills in systems tuning. This role involves client interaction and mentoring junior staff, making effective solutions and maintaining knowledge of market practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering TM solutions in a consulting environment.
• Strong project management and business analyst background.
• Hands-on experience in defining model validation and system tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead Anti-Financial Crime delivery on TM projects.
• Define and lead on TM model optimization.
• Manage and mentor junior colleagues during projects.

Skills

AFC compliance risk understanding

Transaction Monitoring typologies knowledge

KYC standards application

Change governance definition

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Tools

SQL

Excel

NICE Actimize

Job description

Overview

You will be joining a fast-growing consulting team to lead and deliver Transaction Monitoring (TM) projects for our banking and payment facilitator clients.

The successful candidate will be experienced in delivering end to end business and technical enhancements on Transactions Monitoring systems, covering compliance level risk assessment (advisory), typologies/rule design, typology optimisation, data analysis, segment definition and effectiveness analysis. The candidate must be self-motivated and comfortable within a client facing environment, including leading workshops, advisory, presentation and delver documents in a clear structured and high-quality content.

Core responsibilities

As a senior manager / manager, you will be expected to use your industry experience and expertise to formulate comprehensive and well considered TM solutions to clients' challenges.

Externally, the individual will also be expected to keep up-to-date with new TM market practices and trends. Internally, participate in marketing, knowledge sharing and practice development.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading Anti- Financial Crime (AFC) delivery on TM projects, including development of tuning and optimisation framework, conducting reviews of client\'s processes and procedures, support regulatory or audit reviews, advising on TM technology, optimisation, and remediation programmes
• Define and lead on TM model optimisation, industry monitoring typology risk assessment methodology and overall control framework in building an effective Transaction Monitoring programme
• Leading and developing strong relationships with project stakeholders
• Supporting with planning, status update and support project governance
• Supporting business development and drafting proposals to identify new prospects

Business skills (50%)

• Strong understanding of the AFC compliance risks relevant to Transaction Monitoring (e.g. money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, bribery and corruption, capital surveillance)
• Good appreciation on conventional Transaction Monitoring typologies and industry practices
• Good appreciation of KYC standards that can be leveraged to fine tune TM models
• Good appreciation of TM alert investigation process
• Hands-on capability in defining change governance, project management and business analyst background. Must demonstrate strong capability to define and articulate approach

Technical skills (50%)

• (Must have) Hands-on experience in defining and leading model validation and system tuning from inception to completion
• Hands-on understanding on minimum of one TM systems, rule designs, segment designs, technical design and processes (e.g NICE Actimize, Oracle Mantas, SAS, FiServ)
• Good Excel, SQL and Data Analysis on high volume of transaction data

Personal skills / values

• Confidence to credibility with clients from project inception
• Self-motivation individual willing to learn new concepts, with excellent analytical skills and proven problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at business and technical levels
• Strong appreciation of business and delivery risks
• A high degree of integrity and the drive and willingness to succeed; and
• Strong team ethos and ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure and minimal supervisions
• Managing and mentoring junior colleagues during projects