Project Lead (AI Transaction Monitoring) - Remote

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Project Leader within AI Transaction Monitoring to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 12-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a fully remote role.

Our client is looking for a results-orientated seasoned Project Leader with a strong background in Anti–Money Laundering (AML) and financial crime prevention, combined with a proactive and value-driven approach to delivery. You will join a high-performing team responsible for driving strategic development initiatives to strengthen transaction monitoring capabilities, spearheading the AI-driven Transaction Monitoring programme. You’ll be at the forefront of the fight against financial crime, ensuring timely detection of suspicious activity while applying cutting-edge AI and machine learning in transaction monitoring (TM). This role helps in the detection of money laundering and sanctions violations, effectively using AI powered systems. You’ll support the AML control framework through strategic leadership of AI enabled TM initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be motivated, structured, self-driven with a passion for simplification and a strong commitment to capturing and communicating requirements clearly. You will have the ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams with the opportunity to expand your own capabilities, contribute to a robust change execution structure, and put ideas into action.

Responsibilities

• Influence and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver AI/Machine Learning (ML) TM solutions aligning with business needs and regulatory requirements
• Define and manage overall delivery roadmap, budgets, timelines, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables
• Oversee end-to-end testing, validation, performance monitoring, and reliability of AI models in live TM environments while working closely with cross functional and governance teams
• Liaise with senior stakeholders, ensuring transparent governance, audit readiness, and effective risk reporting while taking ownership across the full change lifecycle
• Establish metrics, dashboards and KPIs to monitor model effectiveness, alert rates, false positive reduction and operational performance
• Drive process improvements and change management, embedding continuous feedback loops from analysis and investigators to refine detection scenarios as well as downstream investigation workflows
• Manage implementation of AI/ML enhancement into new products or regions, ensuring compliance, consistency and scalability
• Maintain strong customer and business focus, ensuring all change initiatives deliver value to the organisation, reduce investigator burden and enhance end-to-end user experience

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience as Project Leader across complex, multi-stream initiatives (using Agile and/or hybrid methods) in Anti–Money Laundering (AML) and financial crime prevention
• Comfortable translating complex AI/ML concepts into business language, navigating competing priorities, and maintaining high standards of delivery, transparency, and control
• Excellent business orientation and understanding of the financial industry, preferably with deep experience in financial crime area / industry knowledge on how to mitigate financial crime risks including regulatory interaction
• Experienced in working with requirements in IT development activities preferably in Anti-Financial Crime area
• Proven delivery of AI/ML or advance analytics solutions, ideally in financial crime, transaction monitoring, or fraud detection settings
• Deep understanding of AML transaction monitoring, including alerting logic, typologies, thresholds, alert investigation, and SAR frameworks
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement across business, compliance, data, and product functions with fluency in oral and written English
• Experienced in model testing, validation, governance, and explainability (especially in a regulatory context) with familiarity in transaction monitoring systems and downstream case management workflows
• Track record of using data and metrics to drive performance and inform decision making
• Confident manging delivery budgets, risks, timelines, and interdependencies across global or cross border teams

Desirable 

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM 

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.