Saleh Ahmed

Compliance Operations - Team Lead @FirstBank UK Limited

Provide day-to-day supervision to the Analysts and manage the day-to-day activities of the monitoring team including alert prioritization and work distribution to ensure proper surveillance and timely action.\\\\n• Act as the point of escalation for the team for any queries relating to alert investigation, ensuring timely execution of outcomes.\\\\n• Ensure comprehensive investigation of potential suspicious money laundering activity and/or escalated alerts.\\\\n• Perform the QC function to sample test the quality and timely execution of alerts processed by the Analysts.\\\\n• Act as a SME on financial crime related matters, with specific emphasis on transaction monitoring systems.\\\\n• Assist the DMLRO in performing a regular review of the surveillance system to ensure, through understanding of the business risks, that it remains fit for purpose and proportionate to the firm’s activities. This involves the designing of appropriate rules and scenarios for optimized automated\\\\nTransaction Surveillance solutions.\\\\n• Engage with relevant stakeholders in regular workflow discussions. This would include the payments processing and settlement teams as well as front office client-facing staff as required.\\\\n• Review and draft transaction surveillance and customer screening guidelines and procedures.\\\\n• Develop and deliver awareness training on Financial Crime related matter, with specific emphasis on Transaction Monitoring.\\\\n• To contribute towards the delivery of a positive culture within the team\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n