Financial Crime Compliance Senior Manager

We are seeking a highly experienced Financial Crime Compliance Senior Manager to join an investment banking client, overseeing and guiding critical deliverables within the Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessment (TMRA) Taskforce. You will lead and challenge the work conducted by the First Line of Defence, ensuring high standards across risk assessments, red flag mappings, model testing, and technical architecture reviews.

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.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills and Experience:

• 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.

Preferred:

• Leadership experience within a large, matrixed financial organization.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Benefits

Initial 6 month contract which is expected to be extended.

£90k Pro Rata