Steffi Tennyson
@steffitennyson
First-line KYC & AML specialist driving accurate, well-evidenced financial crime decisions.
United KingdomWhat I'm looking for
I’m a KYC and AML specialist with 8+ years of hands-on, first-line financial crime experience across banking, fintech and consulting. I’m known for delivering accurate, well-evidenced decisions at pace, handling KYC onboarding, ongoing due diligence, and large-scale remediation programmes while escalating appropriately to the second line.
In my roles, I’ve owned Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), performed transaction monitoring investigations and alert triage, and led sanctions and PEP screening with strong documentation quality. I’ve also embedded in fintech operations as a senior consultant—contributing to Grafana implementation to improve detection efficiency—and I’m comfortable managing complex cases independently in remote and hybrid environments.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Transaction Monitoring Analyst
Alboss Consulting
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024 (1 year 4 months)
Embedded within a fintech’s financial crime function, triaging high-priority transaction monitoring alerts and assessing customer behaviour against risk typologies. Helped implement Grafana to visualise and analyse customer transactional profiles, improving detection efficiency.
Financial Crime Remediation
Efficient Frontiers International
Jun 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 8 months)
Contributed to a KYC remediation programme across a global investment bank and a UK fintech, performing AML risk assessments and transaction monitoring investigations. Escalated PEP, sanctions and adverse news cases to the second line and findings to the SAR team.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
BCS (Chartered Institute for IT)
BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis, Business Analysis
BCS Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis (in progress).
University of Westminster
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Sociology, Sociology
Grade: 2:1
Activities and societies: Including a student exchange at the University of Miami (2014).
BA (Hons) Sociology at the University of Westminster, achieved a 2:1.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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Job categories
Skills
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