Aberdeen
Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring and Screening Lead
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Aberdeen is the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group, tackling bold challenges with integrity and driving growth in ways so far unseen.
In a world that demands more, we are strengthening our culture and ensuring we attract and retain the top talent to keep us competitive. Our people form the heartbeat of our success, delivering exceptional value to our clients, associates, shareholders, and society with unmatched commitment.
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen’s business focus is built around three core platforms: Interactive Investor, Investments, and Adviser. Together they cater to the evolving needs of our clients:
- Interactive Investor (ii) – A UK leader in investment platforms, empowering individuals to plan, save, and invest in ways that align with their goals.
- Adviser – Providing robust financial planning solutions, blending tech-driven advisory tools with bespoke services for UK financial advisors.
- Investments – A specialist asset management group, leveraging market expertise and tailored investment strategies across public and alternative asset classes.
About the Role
As the Transaction Monitoring and Screening Lead, you will be accountable for Aberdeen’s Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) monitoring systems and compliance strategies. The role encompasses strategic vision, cross-functional leadership, and operational excellence in screening and transaction monitoring solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring regulatory compliance across AML, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime controls.
- Leading enhancements, optimisations, and regulatory-driven changes within the AFC environment.
- Collaborating closely with Technology, first-line business units, and second-line AFC functions.
- Partnering with vendors (Nice Actimize, Dow Jones, Factiva, World Check) and suppliers to deliver resilience, workplace agility, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Ownership & Direction
- Define and drive the strategic vision for Aberdeen’s screening tools, ensuring alignment with AML, sanctions, fraud, and broader financial crime frameworks.
- Direct regulatory-led changes and influence technical upgrades, targeting architecture, and future-state assessments.
- Balance risks vs. retain, replace, or evolve decisions for system sustainability.
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Governance, Oversight & Stakeholder Management
- Establish and maintain adaptive governance over functional performance, risk management, operational resilience, and data quality.
- Chairs service reviews with Technology/Supply Chain, Internal Audit, and key vendors to ensure quality and performance alignment.
- Drive operating model efficacy for screening and monitoring functionalities.
Requirements, Change & Product Lifecycle Management
- Own and prioritise business and system requirements.
- Partner with Technology (CETO/R&D provides), first-line, and second-line teams to implement structured changes.
- Ensure documented governance for configuration/lifecycle updates and vendor relationship management.
Financial & Commercial Ownership
- Cost optimisation oversight – license management, commercial alignment, and budget transparency across Aberdeen’s three business pillars.
- Negotiate vendor contracting, provider-commercial agreements, and governance costs ensuring equitable implementation.
Operational Alignment & Performance
- Deliver end-to-end monitoring effectiveness: align first-line operations, AFC oversight, and technology alignments.
- Monitor alert effectiveness, investigations, MLRO escalation, and control testing (compliance, benchmarking, audit-readiness approval).
- Maintain governance documentation to ensure regulatory compliance and resilience.
Vendor & Supplier Management
- Senior escalation point for service failures, performance issues, and vendor deficiencies with Nice Actimize, Dow Jones, Factiva and World Check.
- Engage directly on practice tuning, optimisation, and innovation to support streamlined service delivery.
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Candidate Profile
Ideal Background & Competence: A superior candidate must possess:
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Essential Qualifications & Expertise:
- Senior/strategic experience with anti-financial crime (AFC), screening, and transaction monitoring capabilities within the financial services space.
- Deep understanding of regulatory requirements (AML, sanctions, fraud) and their operational implications.
- Proven governance and stakeholder strategy skills with capability to engage across first-line, second-line, and technology layers.
- Strong ability to translate business needs into actionable system design and optimisations.
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Desirable Traits:
- Formal qualifications in compliance, risk management, or financial crime analytics.
- PDF experience with vendors like Nice Actimize, Dow Jones, Factiva, or World Check.
- Cost control strategies familiarity—cost allocation, service reviews, vendor partnership.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Disability Confident Commit business. If you or someone you seek support for has a disability, please advise in the application process; we will assist with accommodations.
Aberdeen partnered with flexibility: We offer a blend of office-based collaboration and place of work flexibility to align with your needs, goals, and growth.
It must meet individuals’ aspirations—diverse skill sets are championed and customised development programmes are on offer. Join a forward-thinking collective committed to ‘fair treatment and great performance.
Benefits & Perks
How We Make Work Life Richer:
- Highly competitive rewards:
- 40 days’ leave annually.
- Pension scheme contribution of 16% of your salary.
- Discretionary bonus structure (performance-linked).
- Comprehensive healthcare and employee benefits programme (gym discounts, seasonal ticket loans).
We provide support and encouragement for holistic success.
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