# Compliance Officer résumé example

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

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- Field: Legal
- Career stage: Mid level
- Written for: United Kingdom
- Design: Onyx Noir (https://cvaurum.com/templates/onyx-noir)
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## Femi Adebanjo — Compliance Manager, Financial Crime

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