Transaction Monitoring AI Lead

We are seeking an experienced AI Project Lead to spearhead initiatives aimed at enhancing transaction monitoring capabilities through artificial intelligence and machine learning. This role is pivotal in driving innovation, improving financial crime detection, and ensuring alignment with regulatory standards across the organization.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver AI/ML solutions for transaction monitoring and financial crime prevention.

• Define and manage project roadmaps, including scope, budget, and timelines.

• Oversee the testing, validation, and deployment of AI models in live environments.

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure effective governance, reporting, and strategic alignment.

• Develop performance metrics and dashboards to monitor model effectiveness and operational impact.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and manage change across impacted teams and systems.

• Ensure AI/ML solutions are scalable, compliant, and integrated seamlessly across products or regions.

• Champion a user-centric approach to enhance usability and stakeholder satisfaction.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience leading complex AI or analytics projects, ideally within financial services or compliance domains.

• Strong understanding of AML transaction monitoring processes and regulatory expectations.

• Demonstrated success in delivering AI/ML solutions in high-stakes, regulated environments.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across technical, business, and compliance functions.

• Experience in model validation, performance monitoring, and risk mitigation.

• Familiarity with transaction monitoring systems and operational workflows.

• Experience managing project budgets, risks, and delivery timelines.

• Professional certifications such as the ICA Advanced Certificate or Diploma in AML.

• Background in fintech, regtech, or global banking environments.

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working, and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”