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Compliance Officer résumé example — mid level, written for United Kingdom, set in the Onyx Noir design
Compliance Officer résumé example, in the Onyx Noir design

Financial crime and regulatory compliance told in alert quality, findings closed and remediation delivered on deadline.

Written for United Kingdom, at mid level, in the legal field, shown in the Onyx Noir design. Every name, employer, address and number below is invented.

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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

Why this Compliance Officer résumé works

  • The headline result has two sides: false positives cut by 62% while the suspicious-activity conversion rate rose from 3% to 11%. Showing that quality improved, not just volume, is what an MLRO looks for.
  • Regulatory vocabulary is used precisely for a UK reader: SMCR certification for 96 staff, a skilled-person review with 34 of 36 findings closed, and Consumer Duty board reports “accepted without amendment”.
  • The KYC Analyst role at Braemar Trust Services is kept short but specific, 600 enhanced due diligence files and nine relationships exited, which grounds the later manager role in casework.
  • CAMS and the International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering are both listed with issuers, the two credentials most UK financial crime job adverts name.

Compliance Officer résumé: common questions

What should a compliance officer CV include in the UK?

The type of firm and its regulator, what you own (monitoring, screening, risk assessment, training), and before-and-after figures for alerts, backlogs and findings closed. Name regimes precisely, SMCR, Consumer Duty, the Money Laundering Regulations, and list ICA or ACAMS qualifications.

Is CAMS or an ICA diploma better for a compliance CV?

Both are recognised in the UK. The ICA diplomas are common in UK banks and payments firms, while CAMS is better known internationally. If you hold one, list it with the year; if you hold both, list both.

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