Job Description
Purpose of role
This leadership role has responsibility for providing direction, leading a team in India, as well as ongoing management of the effective delivery of key AML/Transaction Monitoring Analytical activity globally. The role holder will have solid analytics skill and understanding in Transaction Monitoring. The responsibility includes leading the transformation IFC activities and BAU processes of Transaction Monitoring.
As Director of Transaction Monitoring, the role holder will:
- Drive the successful delivery and operationalisation of analytical tools, ensuring they are designed, built, and deployed effectively across teams, programmes, and BAU activity to maximise control impact and business value.
- Champion a culture of doing the right thing, bringing energy, ownership, and disciplined execution to all analytics‑led initiatives.
- Provide strong leadership on financial crime analytics and regulatory requirements, guiding stakeholders across Group Control, business, technology, and operations to ensure analytical solutions are compliant, robust, and aligned to risk priorities.
- Lead by example in building trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders, proactively shaping analytical tool adoption and promoting data‑driven decision‑making.
- Act as a role model within the Group Control Data Analytics function, developing a high‑performance environment focused on analytical excellence, continuous improvement, and capability uplift.
- Apply deep technical and analytical expertise in the Financial Crime regulatory landscape to ensure models, logic, and analytics are effective, explainable, and continuously improved.
- Rigorously review, challenge, and strengthen the analytical control environment, ensuring outputs are reliable, risks are mitigated, and design decisions are evidence‑based.
- Provide strategic guidance on the evolution of analytical tools and methods, remaining responsive to regulatory shifts, data availability, and emerging threats across both the internal and external environment.
- Fundamental to the role will be an ability to actively contribute to and engage in data analytics to achieve consistency, share knowledge, and drive strategic change. The role holder will also work very closely with other Group Control teams, Compliance, Business, Legal, Technology and Operational colleagues to deliver a co-ordinated approach and response to risk
Key Accountabilities
The role holder will be accountable for:
- Providing leadership within the Financial Crime Detection team, developing and empowering team members to be effective, and represent the function
- Delivering defined TM detection services provided to BUK and BBPLC
- Developing and maintaining the Anti Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring programme in line with policy and regulatory requirements.
- Developing and working with the organisation to deliver the strategic investment portfolio for the Anti Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring programme in partnership with technology and operational teams.
- Implement and maintain industry leading governance and procedures for the Transaction Monitoring life cycle.
- Lead technical analytics teams for TMCS Central Services in India and be responsible for various deliveries across TM models.
- Enabling an effective working relationship between senior stakeholders across the Business, Technology, Operations, Compliance and Group Control.
Person Specification
The role holder will have
- Robust analytics skills, understanding data, scripts, mathematics, and models
- Ability to translate analysis to business solution to mitigate Transaction Monitoring risks
- Good communication to senior management and stakeholders
- Managerial and leadership experience in leading and managing a team
- Strong financial crime speciality, especially in Transaction Monitoring dealing with both BAU and transformation deliverables
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Be an inspirational leader with a track record of delivery and management, leadership and mentoring of high performing teams
- Analytics experience in data, models, analytics, and scripting especially in the financial crime space
- Be able to demonstrate technical knowledge of Financial Crime and be able to quickly apply a combination of technical and commercial thinking to an appropriate solution for TM risk mitigation
- Be comfortable in fast growing and complex environments, and be able to move effortlessly between strategic topics to day-to-day BAU and any ad hoc urgent delivery
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, an effective communicator, adapting messaging to the audience clear, plain language terms – an ability to communicate analytically or legally complex items in simplified terms without losing the essential points
- Strong organisational, planning, and problem-solving skills, ability to multi-task and demonstrate flexible thinking
- Experience in utilising analytical tools for data exploration, analysis and visualisation, SQL, and Python; as well as Data Management & Model Validation principles and controls
- In-dept experience in Financial Crime Risk and Transaction Monitoring
