Anti Financial Crime Systems Screening & Tuning Senior Consultant
Plenitude are Financial Crime Risk and Compliance specialists and are appointed to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Skilled Persons panel for Financial Crime. Our focus is firmly on addressing the legal, regulatory, reputational and social imperative for financial institutions to take diligent and rigorous steps to mitigate financial crime risks.
We work with a wide array of financial institutions including retail, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, asset management, FinTech, professional services and crypto firms across the UK, Germany, France, Nordics, Asia and the EU, and have provided advisory services on some of the largest and most complex FCC transformations in the industry, across multiple sectors and jurisdictions.
We are seeking a AFC Senior Screening Consultant to join our rapidly growing organisation focused on financial crime compliance. As a AFC Screening Consultant you will be joining a fast-growing consulting team to lead and deliver customer and payment screening projects for our clients. Each project will generally incorporate a review and assessment of the current state of an Anti-Financial Crime solution, leading a team on-site, discussing matters directly with the client, proposing and delivering solutions and driving presentations and high quality written documents.
A core component of the team is to service our clients by reviewing, optimising and advising on their sanctions transactions and name screening solutions, assess screening effectiveness, system tuning, configuration update, identify strategic system and operational controls and enhancements.
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.
- Our focus is on maximising our value to clients through collaborative working and delivering genuine synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
- Fast growth. Plenitude has enjoyed 4X growth over the past 3 years.
- The 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.
- 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading technical delivery of one or more engagements
- Lead relationships with project stakeholders on the client side
- Own planning activities and track the delivery of such plans
- Support development of propositions and contribute with marketing material
- Manage project governance
- Manage junior colleagues during projects
- Communicate progress and identify any potential issues or risks and escalate to senior management in an agile and clear manner
- Lead name / payment data analysis to support system tuning
- Overview system configurations and develop / write logical rules to reduce false positive alerts
- Review the execution of screening effectiveness review across the end-to-end process (e.g. fuzzy matching, client / payment data completeness, list duplication, etc)
Technical skills
- SME Level knowledge on leading screening applications (e.g. FircoSoft, FiServ, Oracle, Actimize, etc)
- Knowledge of the payments processing space, including XML message types, SWIFT payments, ACH clearing, and cross- border payments
- Able to demonstrate good data analysis experience and practices
- Experience fuzzy matching benchmarking
- Advanced Excel, SQL and Data Analysis on high volume of transaction data
Personal skills / values
- Confidence to be able to quickly establish credibility with clients
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills that can be tailored to a variety of audiences
- Proven ability to work with diverse teams
- Experienced in understanding and mitigating the risks associated with AFC projects
- Excellent analytical skills and problem solving, self-motivation and proactive approach
- A high degree of integrity and the drive and willingness to succeed; and
- Strong team ethos and ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure
Here at Plenitude Consulting we take great pride in being an Equal Opportunities Employer. We ensure fair treatment of staff and are committed to delivering diversity and championing real inclusivity throughout the business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
We want to create a safe working environment for all our staff members, one that reflects diversity, inclusion, integrity, and respect. It’s important that our environment not only protects our staff but is inclusive of all.
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
About Plenitude Consulting
Plenitude is a niche consultancy, specialising in Financial Crime Risk and Compliance and are appointed to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Skilled Persons panel for Financial Crime. Our focus is firmly on addressing the legal, regulatory, reputational and social imperative for financial institutions to take diligent and rigorous steps to mitigate financial crime risks.
We help our clients meet their regulatory obligations and reduce their financial crime risk exposure by providing deep subject matter expertise, advisory and transformation services. Our services are augmented with subscription products that gives our clients enhanced insight into the vast array of Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) laws, regulations, guidance and risk indicators, to more effectively manage financial crime risk while reducing overall costs.
We work with a wide array of financial institutions including retail, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies and asset management firms across UK, Germany, France, Nordics and the EU, and have provided advisory services on some of the largest and most complex FCC transformations in the industry, across multiple jurisdictions. Our proven track record includes working with 6 of the 14 global banks subject to the Systematic Anti-Money Laundering Programme (“SAMLP”) in preparation for the review and response programmes.
Our consultants come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines across consulting, in-house financial crime compliance, regulators and law enforcement. This blend of skills and perspectives guarantees a practical and proven approach based on deep industry expertise, and we have been praised for our integrity and transparency at every step of our engagements.
Anti Financial Crime Systems Screening & Tuning Senior Consultant
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