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Introduction
Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each professionals practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.
6 month secondment with a view to extend further.
Key responsibilities
- Assess the current transaction monitoring environment and identify process, governance and control enhancements.
- Design an end-to-end transaction monitoring operating framework.
- Develop a practical transaction monitoring playbook, including procedures, workflows, roles, responsibilities and escalation protocols.
- Define how the framework will transition into a sustainable steady-state operating model.
- Establish appropriate governance, quality assurance and oversight arrangements.
- Design the management information and reporting structure, including key performance indicators, key risk indicators and escalation reporting.
- Define the methodology for monitoring adherence to the playbook and evaluating the effectiveness of the framework.
- Work closely with Compliance, Operations, Technology, Risk and other relevant stakeholders.
- Translate regulatory and policy requirements into clear, operational procedures.
- Support implementation, stakeholder adoption and knowledge transfer.
- Provide senior leadership with clear updates on project progress, risks, dependencies and recommended actions.
Candidate profile
- Significant experience in compliance, financial crime compliance or transaction monitoring.
- Demonstrated success designing or enhancing transaction monitoring frameworks and operating models.
- Strong understanding of transaction monitoring governance, alert handling, escalation, quality assurance and management reporting.
- Experience developing playbooks, policies, procedures and control documentation that can be operationalized.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional compliance projects.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leadership.
- Able to move between strategic design and detailed implementation.
- Clear, practical and commercially aware approach to problem-solving.
- Experience in a regulated organization is highly desirable.
