Financial Crime Director & MLRO (SMF17) at Succession Group (2025-01 – Present)
Head of Financial Crime Prevention and Data Privacy (MLRO) at Succession Group (2019-11 – 2025-01)
- Act as Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Nominated Officer for the Succession Group of companies.
- Responsible for design and implementation of the Financial Crime Framework and associated controls.
- Board and EXCO reporting and education on anti money laundering regulatory requirements.
- Perform business risk assessments and gap analysis to ensure the continued effectiveness of arrangements for the prevention and detection of financial crime across fraud, AML, bribery and corruption, terrorist financing, economic sanctions and tax evasion prevention.
- Provide oversight and challenge to first line business functions.
- Experienced Money Laundering Reporting Officer (Financial Conduct Authority SMF17)
- Oversee key regulatory change, risk and impact assessment and advise the board accordingly.
Head of Financial Crime Prevention (MLRO) at Tilney Group (2018-12 – 2019-11)
- Act as Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Nominated Officer for the Tilney Group.
- Chair the Financial Crime Committee.
- Develop the financial crime prevention framework and report to the board on key anti money laundering, fraud prevention, bribery and corruption and tax evasion requirements.
- Challenge first line procedures and ensure that the business is aware of their responsibility in respect to anti money laundering and financial crime controls.
- Conduct face to face training and ensure the business have sufficient awareness of their financial crime prevention responsibilities.
- Manage regulatory enquiries from the FCA.
- Act as financial crime/economic sanctions SME and develop a team of financial crime prevention professionals.
- Carry out regular financial crime risk assessments and reviews to ensure the continued effectiveness of arrangements for preventing and detecting financial crime including fraud, AML, bribery and corruption and terrorist financing/financial sanctions.
Senior Financial Crime Manager (UK DMLRO/MLRO Ireland) at Tilney Group (2018-05 – 2018-12)
- Act as Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the UK branches of the Tilney Group and MLRO for Ireland.
- Oversee and manage the performance of the Financial Crime Team.
- Design and implement effective Financial Crime Controls throughout the business in line with FCA requirements.
- Act as Financial Crime/Economic Sanctions SME.
- Oversee the companies Transaction Monitoring capabilities.
- Manage regulatory enquiries from the FCA.
- Act as the firms Nominated Officer.
- Overall responsibility for Financial Crime prevention and detection policies and procedures.
Business Sanctions Co-ordinator at BNY Mellon Pershing (2016-03 – 2018-05)
- Responsible for Economic Sanctions controls across BNY Mellon Pershing's UK operations.
- Assist the business in providing SME support.
- Required to provide training to business areas on Economic Sanctions.
- Act as the Pershing UK representative and present on identified risk to BNY Mellon's OFAC Compliance Committee.
- Responsible for Pershing UK local sanctions policies and procedures and responsible for ensuring that the BNY Mellon Global Sanctions Policy is effectively implemented across all business areas.
- Oversee projects and initiatives to ensure that effective controls are in place in order to prevent breach of Economic Sanctions.
- Implement regime changes and manage potential business impact.
- Oversee an outsourced sanctions function based in Chennai India.
- Report to the Executive Committee on Sanctions related issues and key changes which may affect the business.
- Assist the MLRO with the Annual MLRO reports.
Anti-Money Laundering SME (2nd Line Assurance/ Policy and Regulation Manager) at Co-operative Bank (2015-04 – 2016-03)
- Provide assurance on the effectiveness of the first-line AML/CTF and financial-sanctions controls.
- Managing realised risks and issues
- Reviewing bank policies and procedures and completing gap analysis in conjunction with new regulatory requirements.
- Supporting the remediation project in providing SME assistance and defining strategy and processes.
- Provide regulatory advice to the business and support multiple business areas.
- Conduct training on Anti Money Laundering key competencies.
- Manage key business stakeholders while influencing and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Update the Banks control standards and training material.
- Supporting the risk control self-assessment and contributing to the development of standard reports and analyses.
- Currently responsible for the Banks AML Policies. (Acting)
- Act as the Bank representative at BBA meetings on key AML issues. (Acting)
- Currently 2nd Line Assurance representative on Product Governance Forums and Bank Steering Groups. (Acting)
Senior Investigator (AML/Financial Crime Prevention), Nominated Officer at Co-operative Bank (2014-07 – 2015-04)
Compliance Officer at The Access Bank UK LTD (2012-05 – 2014-07)
Financial Crime Officer at Payment Card Technologies (2006-09 – 2012-05)
