Project Manager for Transaction Monitoring

Jit Team; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Jit Team is delivering a large-scale financial crime monitoring initiative across European markets with data integrations, validation and remediation activities. You will govern Transaction Monitoring models, coordinate validation efforts, and ensure regulatory compliance, while aligning with business priorities and stakeholder expectations.

The role supports a hybrid work model with a strong emphasis on governance, model risk management, and collaboration across Capability Leads, Tech, and

Qualifications

• Experience in governance, oversight, and continuous management of Transaction Monitoring models and model-related regulatory commitments.
• Experience in model management, validation, remediation, and governance activities.
• Understanding of financial crime strategy, risk priorities, regulatory requirements, and business needs.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across Risk, Technology, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Govern Transaction Monitoring models within governance, validation, and prioritisation forums.
• Maintain the model management roadmap translating strategy and regulatory needs into a validation and remediation plan.
• Drive prioritisation balancing model risk, regulatory commitments, and resources.
• Coordinate with Model Owners, SMEs, and stakeholders to align development and validation with objectives.
• Oversee validation activities, document findings, and track remediation actions.
• Ensure end-to-end model lifecycle from design to retirement and governance.

Skills

Governance experience

Model management

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory alignment

Tools

Quantexa platform

Job description

Salary: 700-900 PLN/day on B2B

Work model: hybrid from Gdynia / Gdańsk / Warszawa / Łódź (3 days per week from the office)

Why choose this offer?

• You can expect a flexible work organization
• The international work environment will give you the opportunity to interact with the English language on a daily basis
• Scandinavian organizational culture will provide you with work-life balance, you will gain time for additional training (financed by Jit)
• The Jit community will bring you a nice time during regular integration meetings

Project

You will support the delivery of a large-scale financial crime monitoring initiative involving new data integrations, scenario development, testing, and deployment across multiple European markets. The programme includes the implementation and continuous enhancement of contextual monitoring capabilities, with a strong focus on regulatory compliance, model governance, validation, and remediation activities.

• Take responsibility for the governance, oversight, and continuous management of Transaction Monitoring models and model-related regulatory commitments
• Own and maintain the model management roadmap, translating financial crime strategy, risk priorities, regulatory requirements, and business needs into a clear and prioritised validation, remediation, and governance plan
• Drive model prioritisation activities, balancing model risk, regulatory commitments, validation findings, technical sustainability, and available capacity
• Work closely with Capability Leads, Model Owners, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure model development, validation, implementation, and ongoing monitoring activities are aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations
• Coordinate and oversee model validation activities, ensuring findings, recommendations, limitations, assumptions, and model risks are appropriately documented, tracked, and remediated
• Partner with Model Risk Management, Financial Crime, Technology, and Operations stakeholders to ensure validation requirements and intended outcomes are clearly understood and effectively addressed
• Support coordination of model priorities, dependencies, remediation activities, and governance outcomes across multiple Transaction Monitoring initiatives to ensure end-to-end model compliance and effectiveness
• Define and communicate model governance priorities, validation outcomes, remediation plans, and success measures, ensuring stakeholders understand key risks, decisions, and required actions
• Represent Transaction Monitoring models within governance, validation, and prioritisation forums, ensuring attention is directed towards the highest-risk and highest-priority model matters
• Maintain an end-to-end view of the model lifecycle, from model design and implementation through validation, approval, ongoing monitoring, change management, periodic review, and retirement
• Use validation results, model performance metrics, risk insights, regulatory feedback, and stakeholder input to identify opportunities to improve model effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance
• Oversee the tracking and closure of model findings, audit observations, regulatory commitments, and risk acceptance actions, ensuring timely remediation and robust evidence of compliance
• Understand dependencies across Transaction Monitoring, data, technology, operations, and wider Financial Crime capabilities and ensure these are appropriately reflected in model governance, validation, and remediation decisions

Expected competences and knowledge

• Experience in governance, oversight, and continuous management of Transaction Monitoring models and model-related regulatory commitments
• Experience in model management, validation, remediation, and governance activities
• Understanding of financial crime strategy, risk priorities, regulatory requirements, and business needs
• Experience working with model validation activities, findings, recommendations, limitations, assumptions, and model risks
• Ability to collaborate with Capability Leads, Model Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Model Risk Management, Financial Crime, Technology, and Operations stakeholders
• Experience coordinating priorities, dependencies, remediation activities, and governance outcomes across Transaction Monitoring initiatives
• Knowledge of the end-to-end model lifecycle, including design, implementation, validation, approval, monitoring, change management, periodic review, and retirement
• Ability to analyse validation results, model performance metrics, risk insights, regulatory feedback, and stakeholder input to improve model effectiveness and compliance

Nice to have

• Good understanding of finance products
• Knowledge of the Quantexa platform solution
• Transaction monitoring experience

Client - why choose this particular client from the Jit portfolio?

Jit Team has had an over-decade-long relationship with the leading financial group in the Nordic countries, and we are privileged to be our client's premier partner in Poland. At present, over 200 Jit personnel are engaged in the completion of more than 60 projects for this Norwegian major provider of financial services with a global presence and a strong focus on modern technology. Our client's work atmosphere is epitomized by the Scandinavian culture, which is conducive to people who place emphasis on work-life balance and feedback culture. Furthermore, all projects are executed in international teams, giving constant exposure to the English language.

About Jit Team

The Human Factor of IT - it's not just a slogan, it's a philosophy. The foundation of Jit Team is people, which is why we prioritise you. We employ over 770 experienced experts, to whom we offer developmental projects, a wide range of benefits, and a proprietary professional development programme. Together with clients from around the world, we create innovative IT solutions delivered by highly specialised and efficient teams.

Behind our maxim are also charitable and educational activities. We support schools, universities, and educational institutions by conducting workshops, running educational projects, sponsoring events, and donating learning equipment. We offer internships that help launch careers in IT. We support water rescuers and hospitals by providing the necessary equipment. We also support numerous charitable organisations helping people in need, children, and the elderly. We are a Polish company and we share what we have achieved over more than 15 years of activity. By supporting local initiatives, we contribute to the circulation of good energy.