Financial Crime Compliance Manager

About the role

Our Financial Crime team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to prevent financial crime.

We're looking for an innovative and driven Financial Crime Compliance Lead to join the second line of defence. You'll design, lead, and shape the future of oversight and compliance by quickly identifying financial crime risks and maintaining systems and controls.

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What you'll be doing

• Maintaining and updating group FinCrime policies, including defining the group minimum standard for all FinCrime processes across the organisation
• Oversee the quarterly performance of entity MLROs and compliance managers
• Providing oversight and support to the identification, remediation, and resolution of FinCrime-related risk incidents
• Assisting senior management in defining standards to manage financial crime risks, ensuring that these standards are applied across the organisation
• Offering 2LoD support to the business, 1LoD FinCrime teams, and entity MLRO teams with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems
• Ensuring FinCrime risks are considered in our day-to-day operations
• Participating in FinCrime-related governance committees to check-and-challenge initiative owners, identify potential issues, and propose solutions
• Establishing, maintaining, and reviewing dashboards to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigation
• Preparing reports for senior management, group committees, and the Board, escalating any key or high-risk financial crime compliance issues

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience in FinCrime (AML/CTF and sanctions), covering retail and business customers, such as KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, reporting (SARs)
• A good understanding of both innovative financial services products and associated financial crime risks
• Knowledge of anti-financial crime frameworks, regulatory recommendations, risk management good practice, and control arrangements in a complex financial organisation
• Excellent knowledge of global requirements for financial crime controls
• A solid understanding of industry-wide financial crime practices and trends
• Expertise in identifying financial crime risks and potential vulnerabilities, and advising on best practices to address those findings
• A track record of stakeholder management and the ability to collaborate, negotiate, and communicate effectively
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• A professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)
• Experience in crypto, wealth and trading, and/or correspondent banking
• Familiarity with key regulatory issues on anti-fraud and control assessment processes