# Team

- Link: https://senecaconsultancy.co.uk/team/
- Published: 2026-10-10T14:11:32+01:00
- Author: serkanseymenoglu34

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**Ali Serkan Seymenoglu
Director, CAMSISO/IEC 27001 Lead AuditorISO/IEC 20000-1 
Lead Auditor

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 Istanbul**2020 to 2021. Established 
    the enterprise risk framework and built the business continuity programme.
 5. **Operational and IT Risk AVP, ING Bank**2018 to 2020. Control testing, SOX reporting
    and risk dashboards.
 6. **Chief Compliance and Internal Control Specialist, Akbank**2013 to 2017. Suspicious
    activity reporting, fraud investigations and AML policy.
 7. **Internal Auditor, Akbank**2007 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](https://senecaconsultancy.co.uk/team/serkan@senecaconsultancy.co.uk)
or write to us at 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX.