Femi Adebanjo — Compliance Manager, Financial Crime
London
Compliance professional with nine years in payments and wealth management, the last four owning financial crime for an FCA-authorised e-money firm. Retuned a transaction-monitoring model that cut false positives by 62% while lifting the suspicious-activity conversion rate from 3% to 11%.
Experience
Compliance Manager, Financial Crime, Pellworth Payments · May 2022 – present
Reports to the MLRO. Owns transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and the annual financial crime risk assessment for 1.4 million customers.
- Retuned the monitoring rule set against 18 months of alert outcomes, cutting false positives by 62% and raising the suspicious-activity conversion rate from 3% to 11%.
- Rebuilt sanctions screening on fuzzy-match thresholds agreed with the board risk committee, clearing a 4,300-alert backlog in seven weeks.
- Wrote the Consumer Duty outcomes-monitoring framework and the first two board reports under it, both accepted without amendment.
- Runs the annual financial crime training programme for 380 staff; completion inside the 30-day window rose from 71% to 98%.
Compliance Officer, Ashcombe Wealth Management · September 2019 – April 2022
- Closed 34 of 36 findings from a skilled-person review inside the agreed nine months, with the remaining two re-scoped by agreement with the regulator.
- Built the certification process for 96 certified staff under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, evidenced annually against a single register.
- Reviewed 1,200 financial promotions a year against the conduct rules and stopped 47 before publication.
KYC Analyst, Braemar Trust Services · June 2017 – August 2019
- Completed enhanced due diligence on 600 high-risk corporate structures, escalating 38 to the MLRO and exiting nine relationships.
- Cut corporate onboarding turnaround from 21 days to 12 by standardising the beneficial-ownership evidence checklist.
Education
- BSc Economics · University of Leeds · September 2014 – June 2017
Skills
- Financial crime: Anti-money laundering, Sanctions screening, Transaction monitoring, Enhanced due diligence, SAR reporting
- Regulatory: FCA Handbook, SMCR, Consumer Duty, Client assets, RegData returns
- Assurance: Compliance monitoring plans, Remediation programmes, Business-wide risk assessment, Policy drafting, Board reporting
Certifications
- International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering — International Compliance Association
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) — ACAMS