Senior Transaction Monitoring Manager

As Plenitude scales globally we are looking to add to our senior leadership team in London. Plenitude is a niche consultancy, specialising in Anti-Financial Crime.

Reasons our employees join and stay with us include:

• Learning from the best. Our owners and subject matter experts are ‘hands‑on’ with every engagement and will invest their time in your development.
• Fast growth. Plenitude has enjoyed 4X growth over the past 3 years. Its owners are actively identifying the next generation of leadership to shape the new relationships, value propositions, products and delivery engagements of the future.
• There are no artificial barriers or constraints on career progression.
• The culture is entrepreneurial with a focus on career and personal development.
• We will sponsor training for every employee based on your needs. This includes specialist technical training (e.g. Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) or International Compliance Association (ICA)) as well as commercial, leadership, coaching and management domains.

As a Senior Transaction Monitoring Manager, you will report into Managing Partner and Senior Executive Team:

• Accountability for the end to end delivery of client engagements including the management of Plenitude team members.
• Delivery of defined deliverables and desired engagement outcomes on time and within budget.
• 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.

Role Competencies, Skills, Behaviours and Attitude:

• Business Skills: 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 across corporate banking, correspondent banking. Good understanding of market SWIFT payment format and standard. 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: (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 across rule designs, segment designs, technical design and processes (e.g NICE Actimize, Oracle Mantas, SAS, FiServ). Good understanding on payment flows and data challenges. Good SQL, Excel and Data Analysis on high volume of transaction data.
• Personal Skills: 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 managing and mentoring junior colleagues during projects. Strong team ethos and ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure and minimal supervision.

What you will need:

• At least ten years experience in financial crime risk and compliance within the Financial Services industry.
• 5-10 years of experience in either strategic and/or management consulting with a focus on financial crime compliance and risk.
• Experience developing and applying corporate governance, compliance control and risk management frameworks.
• Degree level education.
• Financial crime risk or compliance related professional qualifications e.g. ICA Diploma.

Other role requirements:

• Keeping abreast of legislation, regulation, guidance and technologies relating to financial crime risk and compliance.
• Commercial business awareness and financial acumen and understanding.

We offer the opportunity to work solely on FCC engagements with leading financial institutions across banking, insurance, investment management and cryptoasset firms. For the right candidate we offer a very competitive compensation package consisting of base salary, performance related bonus, training allowance, pension, life and medical cover.