Quantexa Model Tuning Consultant

£600pd Inside IR35

Remote in UK
Initial 6 months

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Quantexa Model Tuning Consultant to support the optimisation, validation, and calibration of transaction monitoring models within a leading Financial Crime programme. This role will focus on enhancing detection effectiveness, reducing false positives, and ensuring transaction monitoring scenarios are aligned with regulatory requirements and organisational risk appetite.

The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in transaction monitoring, scenario tuning, model validation, and financial crime risk management, with hands-on experience working within the Quantexa platform. You will collaborate with Compliance, Financial Crime, Data, and Technology teams to ensure monitoring models are robust, scalable, and effective in detecting suspicious activity.

• Lead the tuning, calibration, and optimisation of Quantexa transaction monitoring models and scenarios to improve detection performance and operational efficiency.

• Design, develop, and enhance transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, scorecards, and segmentation frameworks using risk-based methodologies.

• Analyse model performance and recommend threshold adjustments to balance alert quality, false positive reduction, and regulatory effectiveness.

• Execute scenario testing activities, including:

  • Back-testing

  • Forward-testing

  • Threshold analysis

  • Sensitivity analysis

  • Performance benchmarking

• Support model validation activities by documenting methodologies, assumptions, test results, and performance metrics.

• Assess and refine customer, product, geographic, and transactional segmentation strategies within the Quantexa environment.

• Translate financial crime and transaction monitoring requirements into technical configurations and solution designs.

• Partner with engineering and data teams to ensure model changes are accurately implemented, tested, and deployed.

• Work closely with Compliance, AML, Risk, Operations, and Technology stakeholders to ensure monitoring solutions meet regulatory expectations.

• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, data lineage, and data controls underpinning transaction monitoring models.

• Contribute to governance, audit, and regulatory review activities relating to transaction monitoring effectiveness and model performance.

• Provide subject matter expertise on Financial Crime, AML, KYC, CDD, EDD, and suspicious activity monitoring.

• Proven experience tuning and optimising transaction monitoring models and scenarios ideally within Quantexa.

• Strong background in:

  • Transaction Monitoring

  • Scenario Design

  • Model Tuning and Calibration

  • Segmentation Strategies

  • Scorecard and Rule-Based Modelling

  • Detection Optimisation

• Hands-on experience conducting back-testing, threshold analysis, sensitivity testing, and model performance assessments.

• Strong understanding of model validation frameworks, governance requirements, and regulatory expectations.

• Experience translating business and regulatory requirements into technical configurations and analytical models.

• Ability to work effectively with engineering teams through configuration, build, testing, and deployment lifecycles.

• Strong knowledge of AML and Financial Crime regulations, including CDD, EDD, Sanctions, and SAR reporting obligations.

• Experience working with large-scale Financial Crime Transformation programmes.

• Knowledge of data modelling, data architecture, and data integration principles.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience working within complex financial services environments.

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”