Financial Crime Compliance Senior Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Goodman Masson on Reed
£90,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
London
Summary: The Financial Crime Compliance Senior Manager will oversee critical deliverables within the Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessment (TMRA) Taskforce for an investment banking client. This role involves leading and challenging the First Line of Defence's work to ensure high standards in risk assessments, red flag mappings, and model testing. The manager will also develop alternative control solutions and generate KPIs to measure TMRA activities' success. The position requires deep expertise in transaction monitoring within large financial institutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Direct oversight and critical challenge of all TMRA workstreams including Global Risk Assessment, Product and Red Flags identification, and Control mapping.
- Review and test scenario/rule/model designs, calibration, and technical architecture changes.
- Develop alternative control solutions to enhance transaction monitoring effectiveness.
- Lead gap assessments, ensure robust data flow architectures, and drive continuous improvement.
- Generate KPIs to measure the success of TMRA activities against predefined criteria.
Key Skills:
- Deep expertise in conducting Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessments in large financial institutions.
- Strong understanding of CIB products (Trade Finance, Capital Markets, Cash Management, Correspondent Banking) and related AML typologies.
- Extensive hands-on experience with SQL and Spark for data analysis and reconciliation.
- Proven experience in scenario calibration (Above/Below the Line testing).
- Expertise in end-to-end data reconciliation processes.
- Advanced Python skills, including development using Streamlit.
- Strong technical review skills for model and data flow architectures.
- Leadership experience within a large, matrixed financial organization (preferred).
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills (preferred).
Salary (Rate): £90,000
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Finance