Transaction Monitoring BAU Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end Transaction Monitoring BAU control environment, ensuring issues, incidents, and control gaps are managed in line with governance expectations
• Design, build, and scale the "Go Hunt" analytical capability, embedding proactive risk identification across the TM landscape
• Own and evolve the Transaction Monitoring Risk Assessment (TMRA) framework, ensuring it remains robust and forward-looking
• Ensure effective continuous performance monitoring, driving improvements in detection capability and operational outcomes
• Define and deliver product roadmaps aligned to customer needs, business priorities, and technology strategy
• Oversee product execution in line with regulation, policy, and standards, including model performance, calibration, and supporting documentation
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring organisational design meets current and future demands
• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning, accelerating feedback loops and idea development
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into product vision, clearly communicating priorities and outcomes
• Provide ongoing assurance of product value delivery, ensuring solutions are effectively designed, implemented, and continuously improved
• Champion and embed agile practices, driving delivery efficiency and continuous improvement across teams
• Identify, manage, and elevate risks, issues, and control weaknesses, ensuring timely resolution
• Support governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring transparency of progress and decision-making

Requirements

• Experience in Financial Crime specifically Transaction Monitoring within a Financial Services environment (Required)
• Deep understanding of data and analytics to drive insights into model performance and continuous improvement (Required)
• Good understanding of Financial Crime controls, processes and regulatory requirements (Required)
• Experience in supporting change delivery, including requirements gathering, testing and implementation (Required)
• Awareness of operational impacts of change across processes, systems and customer journeys (Required)
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work across business, operations and technology teams (Required)
• Ability to translate complex requirements into clear, practical solutions (Required)
• Solid organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines (Required)
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal (Required)
• Proactive approach to identifying issues and driving resolution (Required)
• Proven track record of people management within small / medium sized teams, leading to improved competence of reporting layers (Required)
• Professional experience in Financial Crime (Required)
• Experience in FC Product maintenance / continuous product improvement, including product design, build, test and implementation of Fin Crime detection and case management solutions as well as E2E controls (Required)
• Data, Analytics and AI experience (Required)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime, with a strong focus on data analytics to enhance model performance and operational outcomes. Proven ability to lead teams, manage stakeholder engagement, and drive continuous improvement in product delivery and governance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Transaction Monitoring Experience
• Data Analytics Expertise
• Financial Crime Controls Knowledge
• Stakeholder Engagement Skills
• People Management Experience

ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills

• Transaction Monitoring
• Data Analytics
• Financial Crime Controls
• Product Design
• Change Delivery
• Requirements Gathering
• Testing and Implementation
• Continuous Improvement
• Model Performance Analysis
• E2E Controls

Soft Skills

• Effective Communication
• Organisational Skills
• Proactive Problem Solving
• Stakeholder Management
• Team Leadership

Industry Keywords

• Financial Services
• Financial Crime
• Regulatory Requirements
• Operational Impact
• Agile Practices