Plenitude are Financial Crime Risk and Compliance specialists and are appointed to the Financial Conduct Authority’s Skilled Persons panel for Financial Crime. Our focus is firmly on addressing the legal, regulatory, reputational and social imperative for financial institutions to take diligent and rigorous steps to mitigate financial crime risks.

We work with a wide array of financial institutions including retail, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, asset management, FinTech, professional services and crypto firms across the UK, Germany, France, Nordics, Asia and the EU, and have provided advisory services on some of the largest and most complex FCC transformations in the industry, across multiple sectors and jurisdictions.

Overview

A core component of the team is to service our clients by reviewing, optimising and advising on their sanctions transactions and name screening solutions, assess screening effectiveness, system tuning, configuration update, identify strategic system and operational controls and enhancements.

The successful individual will be joining a fast-growing consulting team to lead and deliver customer and payment screening projects for our clients. Each project will generally incorporate a review and assessment of the current state of an Anti-Financial Crime solution, joining a team of SMEs on-site, discussing matters directly with the client, proposing and delivering solutions and providing presentations and high quality written documents.

Reasons our employees join and stay with us include:

• Learning from the best. Our owners and subject matter experts are ‘hands-on’ with every engagement and will invest their time in your development.
• Our focus is on maximising our value to clients through collaborative working and delivering genuine synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• Fast growth. Plenitude has enjoyed 4X growth over the past 3 years.
• The owners are actively identifying the next generation of leadership to shape the new relationships, value propositions, products and delivery engagements of the future. There are no artificial barriers or constraints on career progression.
• Culture is entrepreneurial with a focus on Career and personal development.
• We will sponsor training for every employee based on your needs. This includes specialist technical training (e.g. Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) or International Compliance Association (ICA)) as well as commercial, leadership, coaching and management domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct name / payment data analysis to support system tuning
• Update system configurations and develop / write logical rules to reduce false positive alerts
• Support the execution of screening effectiveness review across the end-to-end process (e.g. fuzzy matching, client / payment data completeness, list duplication, etc)
• Conduct large to medium scale data analysis using excel or database (e.g. SQL)
• Support writing of assessment reports and day-to-day project artefacts in a clear, concise and structured format

Technical skills

• Must have experience to support technical review or tune one of the leading screening applications (e.g. FircoSoft, FiServ, Oracle, Actimize, etc)
• Some experience in programming / simple rule writing in FircoSoft
• Able to demonstrate good data analysis experience and practices
• Experience fuzzy matching benchmarking will be advantages
• Experience in completing gap analysis with initial guidance and minimal supervisions

Personal skills / values

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivation individual willing to learn new concepts, with excellent analytical skills and proven problem-solving skills
• Driven and interest to self-learn / conduct research with high level guidance
• Good risk awareness across compliance, control, operation, and governance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at business and technical levels
• A high degree of integrity and the drive and willingness to succeed

Here at Plenitude Consulting we take great pride in being an Equal Opportunities Employer. We ensure fair treatment of staff and are committed to delivering diversity and championing real inclusivity throughout the business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

We want to create a safe working environment for all our staff members, one that reflects diversity, inclusion, integrity, and respect. It’s important that our environment not only protects our staff but is inclusive of all.