Transaction Monitoring Team Lead (AML)

Acura Solutions; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Acura Solutions is seeking an AVP/DVP to lead the Transaction Monitoring Team within the Bank's AML unit. This role oversees L1/L2 review teams, ensuring timely, risk-based alert reviews, STR readiness, and regulatory compliance.

You will drive governance, escalation, and continuous improvement of monitoring controls. The position requires deep AML investigation experience, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate with Compliance, IT, Data/Analytics, and Legal teams to strengthen the

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in AML alert investigation and STR escalation.
• Ability to lead sizable operational AML teams with strong risk judgement.
• Experience with AML monitoring platforms (Compass, Actimise, etc.).
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AML transaction monitoring across L1/L2 review teams.
• Provide supervisory oversight on alert investigations and profiling.
• Review and approve complex, high-risk cases (money mule, shell entities, cross-border).
• Ensure timely escalation and complete Grounds of Suspicion with audit trails.
• Monitor productivity, TAT, backlog, and initiate corrective actions.
• Coordinate with branches, Risk, Legal, IT and analytics for case resolution.
• Lead RBI/FIU-IND inspection responses and remediation efforts.

Skills

AML investigations

Team leadership

Regulatory awareness

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

Compass AML

Actimize

Jocata

Job description

Job Title

AVP/DVP - Transaction Monitoring Team LeadRole & responsibilities To lead the Bank's AML transaction monitoring unit and ensure timely, risk-based and high-quality review of alerts and cases

The role is responsible for team governance, alert prioritization, investigation quality, escalation of suspicious activity, STR readiness, regulatory compliance, operational discipline and continuous improvement of monitoring controls.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end transaction monitoring operations across L1 and L2 review teams, ensuring effective allocation, review, escalation and closure of AML alerts within prescribed TAT.

Provide supervisory oversight on alert investigations, customer and transaction profiling, linked-account analysis, counterparty review, adverse information, red flags and documented conclusions.

Review and approve complex or high-risk cases, including money mule, cybercrime/I4C, shell entity, layering, trade-based money laundering, cash-intensive, digital-channel, virtual-asset and cross-border transaction typologies.

Ensure potentially suspicious cases are escalated promptly, Grounds of Suspicion are complete and factually accurate, and STR recommendations are supported by adequate evidence and audit trails.

Monitor daily productivity, ageing, TAT breaches, branch referrals, reverts, STR pipeline, quality observations and backlog; initiate corrective actions and report material issues to senior management.

Implement prioritisation and maker-checker controls for high-risk alerts and ensure consistent decision-making across analysts, reviewers and supervisors.

Coordinate with branches, business units, Fraud Risk, Operations, Legal, IT, Data/Analytics and other stakeholders for enhanced due diligence, information gathering and case resolution.

Support AML scenario reviews, threshold tuning, alert optimisation, UAT, system enhancements and data-quality remediation while ensuring that control effectiveness is not diluted.

Identify emerging ML/TF typologies, regulatory developments and operational gaps; translate them into alerts, advisories, process changes, training inputs and targeted reviews.

Lead responses for RBI/FIU-IND inspections, internal audits, compliance testing and quality reviews, including timely closure of observations and sustainable remediation.

Develop team capability through coaching, case discussions, calibration sessions, quality feedback, succession planning and structured training.

Maintain SOPs, process notes, governance trackers, dashboards and management MIS; provide clear insights on risk trends, control performance and required interventions.

Key Skills & Knowledge

Deep hands‑on experience in AML alert investigation, customer risk assessment, enhanced due diligence, suspicious activity identification, GOS drafting and STR escalation.

Ability to lead sizable operational teams, manage competing priorities, enforce TAT and quality standards, and handle escalations with sound risk judgement.

Experience with AML monitoring platforms such as Compass, Actimise, AMLOCK, Jocata or equivalent solutions, along with core banking and case‑management systems.

Strong analytical skills, understanding of data flows and reconciliations, and proficiency in Excel, dashboards and management reporting.

Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder management, decision‑making, problem‑solving and presentation skills.