YAR INTERIM INTERIM FINANCE PROFESSIONAL
Interim Finance Professional

Interim management.
Control over financial crime.

Leading, remediating and improving your KYC, CDD and monitoring operations.

Yar Interim provides interim management and management consulting to banks and financial institutions: temporary leadership, remediation and structural improvement. One point of contact, from diagnosis to a warm handover.

20+
years in Financial Crime Compliance
8
areas of expertise
6
financial institutions
1
business day response
Why Yar Interim

Your operation,
in control.

  • Leadership from day one. An experienced interim manager who knows the team, the work and the regulator.
  • Operations and advice in one. We lead the execution and advise management on capacity, quality and operating model.
  • Results that last. Lean processes, management information and ownership in the line, so it keeps working after our handover.
Book an introduction How we work
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Experience gained at
ABN AMRO · Rabobank · de Volksbank · Triodos Bank · InsingerGilissen · Deloitte
Expertise

Calm in the operation.
Control for the organisation.

Eight areas where we add value from day one as interim manager and management consultant, through to a careful handover.

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01

Interim Management

Temporary leadership of KYC, CDD and monitoring teams. Structure, rhythm and steering on quality and throughput.

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02

Remediation & look-backs

Setting up and running remediation programmes, clearing backlogs and resolving QA findings demonstrably.

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03

Monitoring & screening

Transaction monitoring, event-driven reviews and sanctions screening: risk-based and audit-proof.

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04

Strategic workforce management & FTE forecasting

Multi-year capacity planning per team based on inflow, productivity and automation. Substantiated FTE forecasts that management and HR can steer on.

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05

Team transformation & operating model

Merging or redesigning teams, redefining span of control and roles, and advising management on capacity and quality.

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06

Process optimisation with Lean

Using Lean (Black Belt) to remove waste and bottlenecks from KYC, CDD and monitoring processes, with management information that keeps working after we leave.

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07

Audit & regulatory readiness

Preparing for internal audit and DNB reviews: findings followed up demonstrably, files in order and the first line in control.

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08

Quality management & QA frameworks

Building a quality framework for KYC/CDD and monitoring: clear standards, peer review and signatory checks, and QA figures that show where to improve.

How it works

From the first week to a warm handover.

An interim assignment only succeeds if the result holds after we leave. That is why we work in four fixed phases.

  1. 01DiagnosisRapid insight into backlog, quality, risks and people. What is really going on?
  2. 02StabilisePriorities, management information and a steady operational rhythm for the team.
  3. 03ImproveRedesign processes and operating model with Lean, so quality and turnaround improve structurally.
  4. 04Secure & hand overDocument results, assign ownership and hand over carefully to the permanent organisation.
Illuminated office facade in the evening
About Yar Interim

Control over financial crime.
From the inside.

Yar Interim is a boutique consultancy for interim management and transformation in Financial Crime Compliance. We support banks and financial institutions in leading, remediating and improving their KYC/CDD, monitoring and remediation operations.

We work from inside the operation, not from the sidelines. Our approach combines more than twenty years of experience within Dutch banks with Lean process improvement and a sharp eye for what regulators expect. The result: a calm team, control for the organisation and a handover that lasts.

Read his story →References available on request.
20+
years in Financial Crime Compliance
6
financial institutions
Lean
Black Belt certified
Challenges

Sound familiar? This is where we help.

The KYC team is temporarily without a manager The backlog of reviews and alerts keeps growing QA or Compliance is asking for a look-back An internal audit or DNB review is scheduled Processes are slow and error-prone
Insights

What we are working on.

Insights from the practice of KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring and supervision. Short, concrete and jargon-free. Articles are in Dutch.

Insight6 October 2026

The EU AML package arrives in mid-2027. Is your KYC operation ready?

From mid-2027 the AMLR, AMLD6 and the new supervisor AMLA replace much of today's Wwft practice. What this means for files, monitoring and capacity, and what you can do now.

Read more (Dutch) →
International15 September 2026

What the FCA finds in London applies in Amsterdam too

FCA review: one in five firms without a complete risk assessment, a quarter without formal transaction monitoring. Three lessons for Dutch Wwft institutions.

Read more (Dutch) →
Insight22 September 2026

DNB: transaction monitoring still misses complex structures

In its 2026 integrity supervision outlook, DNB calls for a sharper, risk-based approach and more attention to sanctions evasion. Five lessons from running a monitoring team.

Read more (Dutch) →
Opinion8 September 2026

Fewer alerts, more control: what automation does to your capacity planning

Machine learning removes the simple alerts from the inflow. That calls for a different team composition and an honest FTE forecast for the years ahead.

Read more (Dutch) →
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Ready to take control of your operation?

Tell us briefly what is going on. We respond within one business day.

Contact

Shall we
get acquainted?

Tell us briefly what is going on. We reply within one working day and are happy to schedule a no-obligation call.

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