Head of Global Transaction Monitoring (UK based)

Overview

In this role you will own Remitly’s global transaction monitoring policy and coverage framework, ensuring robust design, thresholds, and model validation across jurisdictions. You will define standards for scenario design, tuning, and change control while aligning regional execution with a unified global program. You will assess regulatory changes, monitor effectiveness, and drive remediation with accountable owners. This position offers substantial influence over how we detect financial crime at scale and how we partner with regulators and internal teams to maintain trusted operations.

Pay / Benefits

• Paid Vacation Days
• Health insurance
• Commuter benefit
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Continuing education

Responsibilities

• Own global transaction monitoring policy and standards for scenario design, thresholds, tuning, model validation, and change control
• Set procedural standards for regional teams while preserving global coherence
• Maintain control documentation and evidence for examiners and auditors
• Own the transaction monitoring coverage methodology across products, geographies, channels, and rails
• Maintain a living coverage assessment with defensible scope and rationale
• Identify and remediate coverage gaps and false negatives with accountable owners
• Define and manage scenario strategy for building, retiring, or updating detections
• Establish signal intake processes from regulators, partner banks, and industry bodies into coverage decisions
• Assess regulatory changes for monitoring impact and drive timely updates to scenarios and procedures
• Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, and Product to deploy detection, including model governance and explainability
• Lead tuning and optimization cycles and coordinate testing with Compliance Assurance and Internal Audit
• Report program health and coverage posture to executive leadership and the board
• Mentor and develop the monitoring policy, coverage methodology, and governance to ensure repeatability

Key requirements

• 10+ years in financial crime compliance with global monitoring ownership
• Proven ability to defend coverage scope decisions to regulators
• Strong command of AML, sanctions, and fraud typologies across products and geographies
• Hands-on analytical capability with SQL or equivalent for threshold analysis
• Experience with monitoring technology and model-based detection including governance and validation
• Track record managing monitoring programs under multi-jurisdictional regulatory examinations
• Experience translating regulatory changes and new product launches into monitoring requirements with deadlines
• Executive-level written and verbal communication under examiner pressure
• Experience leading and building teams

• executive communication
• stakeholder management
• leadership and team development
• SQL or equivalent data interrogation for thresholds
• monitoring technology and model-based detection
• model governance and validation

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