Project Manager - Transaction Monitoring

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specializing in business and technology services for the financial services sector, delivering tailored consulting and solutions.

• Proven Project Manager, Programme Manager, or Model Governance Lead experience within Financial Services.
• Strong understanding of Transaction Monitoring, Financial Crime, AML, and Fraud Risk Management.
• Experience managing model validation, governance, remediation, or related regulatory programmes.
• Ability to work across Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, Operations, Data, and Technology functions.
• Experience tracking and managing regulatory commitments, audit actions, and remediation plans.
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence senior leadership and governance committees.
• Experience delivering within highly regulated banking or financial services environments.
• Excellent planning, reporting, and governance management capabilities.

• Own and maintain the Transaction Monitoring model management roadmap, translating financial crime strategy, regulatory requirements, and business priorities into a delivery plan.
• Drive model prioritisation balancing regulatory commitments, model risk, validation findings, operational impact, and resource capacity.
• Coordinate model validation activities, documenting and managing findings, recommendations, assumptions, limitations, and risks.
• Collaborate with Model Owners, Financial Crime SMEs, Technology teams, and Capability Leads to support model development, implementation, validation, and monitoring.
• Partner with Model Risk Management and governance stakeholders to define and deliver validation requirements.
• Track and drive remediation of validation findings, audit actions, regulatory commitments, and risk acceptance through to closure.
• Establish governance forums, reporting, and stakeholder communications to provide visibility on key decisions, risks, dependencies, and progress.
• Maintain oversight of the full model lifecycle including design, implementation, validation, approval, monitoring, change management, periodic reviews, and decommissioning.
• Support delivery across multiple Transaction Monitoring initiatives ensuring alignment of priorities, dependencies, and compliance.
• Use model performance data, risk insights, regulatory feedback, and validation outcomes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Represent Transaction Monitoring model activities in governance and prioritisation forums focusing on highest-risk and priority matters.

emagine is an equal opportunity employer with employment practices based strictly on merit, providing equal opportunity regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, religion, or ethnic origin.