The Edmund Group was founded with the sole purpose of enriching the financial services marketplace for the betterment of customer experiences. The Edmund Group does this by collaborating with clients, all of whom are exceptional entrepreneurs, ambitious Fintechs or successful financial services firms to combine our expertise with their passion for innovation. The Edmund Group provides high quality strategic advisory services rooted in a deep technical understanding of compliance, risk and financial crime disciplines honed through over a decade of experience.I co founded the Edmund Group having seen best practices and poor outcomes across both traditional financial services and the fintech ecosphere. Having worked with well established consultancies throughout our careers, my co founder and I identified that consulting largely still leaves a lot to be desired and we believe we can change the market for the better through a 'service first' approach. My duties include: - Working with our clients to understand and assess their requirements in relation to compliance, financial crime and risk management; - Supporting banking license application processes and build projects; - Providing expert advice and guidance to our clients on compliance, financial crime and risk management matters; - Designing, building and implementing second line of defense functions; - Providing strategic insights to assist startups, CEOs and entrepreneurs to roadmap their path to market; - Securing new business and projects for the Edmund Group; - Marketing, product and service development for the Edmund Group; - Strategy setting and business plan development; and- Undertaking speaking engagements, blog postings/articles and white papers of subject matter of interest to our client base and target market.

I worked as Interim Operational Excellence Manager following a personal request from the Global Head of Financial Crime prevention to support on all matters relating to Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Training and Competence, Quality Assurance and Procedural Excellence within the Financial Crime function. I conducted this role in parallel to my UK financial crime manager position. Duties included: - Strategic assessment and development of the global financial crime training and competence programme; - Oversight, management and development of the Training and Competence team;- Oversight, management and development of the Quality Assurance team; - Oversight, management and development of the Operational Excellence team; - Acting as a point of escalation for all SME queries regarding training, QA and Operational Excellence;- Upskilling of key individuals within each respective team;- Setting the prioritisation of multiple competing and imperative deliverables across each of the teams; and- Ownership of audit actions assigned to each of the respective teams under my lead

I worked as UK Financial Crime Manager and defacto MLRO reporting directly to the UK Chief Risk Officer. My duties included; - Analysis of the bank's financial crime systems and controls, with a focus on the applicability to the UK regulatory environment; - Oversight of the Berlin based financial crime teams, with a specific focus on the level 2 and level 3 UK specific financial crime team;- Acting as a defacto MLRO, guiding the UK's financial crime prevention strategy; - Creating and maintaining the UK entities financial crime MI ecosystem and reporting; - Completing and submitting all financial crime related regulatory reports; - Reporting to the UK Risk Committee on financial crime matters; - Acting as an SME and ultimate escalation point for UK financial crime matters including serious and complex UK financial crime cases; - Providing recommendations to enhance financial crime prevention systems and controls; - Conducting due diligence on HNW/High value UK customers as and when appropriate; - Prioritising and managing casework from a strategic perspective using a risk based approach; and- Winding down all UK operations from a financial crime perspective

Expert banking for business Britain. By combining tailored expertise, local relationships and powerful technology, Allica Bank is built specifically to empower small businesses to succeed.I worked as Risk and Compliance Manager reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer with a remit of building out the second line of defense function, with a focus on compliance, financial crime, enterprise risk, conduct risk and operational risk. This included; - Designing, building and implementing the bank's financial crime framework, systems and controls; - Designing, building and implementing the bank's compliance framework, policies, procedures and processes; - Designing, building and implementing the bank's enterprise wide risk management framework, operational risk framework and conduct risk framework;- Managing and reporting on the project progress from a second line of defence perspective; - Acting an SME for the business to support other first line of defence project builds; - Providing strategic input and problem solving solutions for project build key milestones and challenges;- Supporting the banking license application process from a second line perspective; - Setting up the bank's insurance policies - Supporting the investor/funding process by inputting to the bank's pitch deck from a second line perspective.

In 1849 they were founded as the ‘Ipswich and Suffolk Permanent Benefit Building Society’ and over 170 years have dedicated ourselves to protecting the money of generations, for generations, with a continuing physical presence on high streets across the region.Looking to the future we will be exploring new ways to serve more members and grow independently and responsibly whilst supporting the financial needs of people throughout Suffolk.I worked as Risk and Compliance Manager reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer on all matters relating to compliance, financial crime and conduct risk which included: - Establishing and maintaining an appropriate Compliance function; - Assisting and leading the development of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework;- Establishing and maintaining an adequate Financial Crime function; - Holding Senior Management Functions 16 (Compliance Oversight) and 17 (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) as well as Business Activity 19 (Customer Complaints Handling) under temporary cover assignment;- Acting as Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer- Managing a team and overseeing the effectiveness of the Risk and Compliance function;- Reporting to Board Risk and Compliance Committee as well as Executive Risk Committee;- Producing key strategic documents such as the Compliance Monitoring Plan and Annual MLRO Report; - Acting as a key SME for all matters relating to Compliance, Financial Crime, Operational Risk and Conduct Risk; - Attending Operational and Conduct Risk Committee (OCRC) and Product Development Group (PDG)

I joined the Ipswich Building Society as Interim Compliance Manager with a mandate over 3 months to evaluate the Compliance and Financial Crime department, recommend enhancements and actions to implement those recommendations. After completing my remit ahead of schedule, I was asked to assist with the redevelopment of firm wide committee reporting from a second line of defence perspective. Shortly after, I was offered a permanent position of Risk and Compliance Manager with an expanded remit of Risk Management in addition to Compliance and Financial Crime duties.

A mutual society which has been serving the local community since 1849. Saffron prides themselves on being a mutual organisation, which means they are owned by their members, and exist solely for their benefit. We have a number of branches located in Hertfordshire, Essex and Suffolk and over £1 billion in lending at the time of writing.I worked as a Senior Analyst in a 360 compliance role, reporting directly to the Head of Compliance and Regulatory Risk on all regulatory matters which included: - Establishing and maintaining an effective regulatory risk management framework;- Acting as an SME for all regulatory matters and relevant laws; - Identifying, assessing and reporting upon all applicable regulatory changes; - Creating reports and delivering recommendations to the Chief Risk Officer, Executive Risk Committee (ERC) and Risk, Audit, Compliance and Conduct Committee (RACCC)- Providing in-depth regulatory and technical guidance to Board, Executive, Management and allcolleagues- Acting as a deputy for the Head of Compliance and Conduct Risk when unavailable on all matters relating to regulatory risk.

CONNECT SMARTER. GROW SMARTER. PARTNER SMARTER. Worldpay supports more than 1,000,000 merchants worldwide and process over 40 billion transactions annually. With more than 300 payment methods, they provide the expertise you need to make smart payment acceptance decisions. Worldpay services 80% of the top airline, retail and internet companies globally, process 110 million transactions per day on average via mobile, online and in-store - and they have notably reduced chargeback fraud by 95% for a large online client. I worked as an Analyst to conducted corporate due diligence (KYC/B) on over 1300 entities which included:- Globally trading entities; - Multiple legal types including LLPs, LTDs, PLCs, GmbHs and LLC- Multiple jurisdictions including Europe, Middle East, Asia, Americas, Luxembourg, Channel Islands and Malta- KYB validation including corporate structuring and beneficial ownership as well as legality- KYC validation completed on all UBOs and other relevant persons