Team

Serkan is the Director of Seneca Consultancy and Training. He is a CAMS-certified MLRO and compliance and audit leader with 19 years of experience across banking, fintech, remittance and financial services.

He has worked directly with the FCA, HMRC and the NCA, and has built financial crime, internal audit and enterprise risk programmes in the UK, Turkey and the US. He brings that regulatory knowledge and hands-on delivery experience to every client engagement, so the solutions we build meet regulatory requirements and work in practice.

Through Seneca Consultancy and Training, Serkan provides consultancy and support services in regulatory compliance, AML advisory, and audit and risk management. He works closely with each client to strengthen governance, improve internal controls and meet regulatory obligations.

Seneca also provides financial and bookkeeping services, including day-to-day bookkeeping, bank and account reconciliations, management accounts and financial reporting, income and expenditure monitoring, and budgeting, cash flow monitoring and financial planning support..

How Serkan helps clients

FCA authorisation

Licence application support, regulatory documentation and compliance framework development.

AML, CTF and sanctions

Policies and procedures, firm-wide risk assessments, AML health checks and gap analysis, informed by the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and JMLSG guidance.

Internal audit

Risk-based audit planning and execution, control design and operating effectiveness testing, and remediation tracking.

Risk advisory

Enterprise risk frameworks, risk and control self-assessments, key risk indicators and incident root-cause analysis.

Transaction monitoring

Scenario and threshold tuning, SAR processes and KYC, CDD and EDD design, with experience on Nice Actimize and Fineksus.

Training

AML and financial crime training and management reporting for boards, senior management and staff.

Bookkeeping

Day-to-day bookkeeping and transaction recording, plus bank and account reconciliations.

Financial management

Management accounts and financial reporting, income and expenditure monitoring, budgeting, cash flow monitoring and financial planning support.

Career highlights

1. Director, Seneca Consultancy and Training Ltd.2021 to present
2. Outsourced MLRO for a regulated payments firm Provided as a Seneca client service: owns compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and POCA 2002, and handles FCA, HMRC and NCA liaison.
3. Outsourced internal audit for a commercial lender Provided as a Seneca client service: led end-to-end audits of commercial lending operations and reported to the audit committee.
4. Enterprise Risk Senior Specialist, Borsa Istanbul2020 to 2021. Established the enterprise risk framework and built the business continuity programme.
5. Operational and IT Risk AVP, ING Bank2018 to 2020. Control testing, SOX reporting and risk dashboards.
6. Chief Compliance and Internal Control Specialist, Akbank2013 to 2017. Suspicious activity reporting, fraud investigations and AML policy.
7. Internal Auditor, Akbank2007 to 2012. Risk-based audits across retail, corporate lending and IT.

Education and languages

MA in Economics, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. BA in Finance, Dokuz Eylul University. Serkan works in English and Turkish.

Get in touch

Email serkan@senecaconsultancy.co.uk or write to us at 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX.