Financial Crime Advisory Manager — AI-Driven Risk & Growth

OakNorth; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Wellbeing and social events

Volunteering time off

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

OakNorth Bank in London is seeking a mid-senior Manager, Financial Crime to join our second line of defence. You will advise on escalations, perform CDD in high-risk cases, and shape policy alongside MLRO and stakeholders across the business.

With around 5 years of experience in regulated financial crime, you’ll bring AML, ABC, fraud and sanctions expertise, plus a commercial mindset to support safe growth and the intelligent use of AI in risk management.

Qualifications

• Around 5 years' experience in financial crime within a regulated banking or financial services environment.
• Solid grounding across AML, ABC, fraud, and sanction (and the regs that underpin them).
• Understanding of commercial lending, retail savings and business banking product sets.
• Strong stakeholder skills — comfortable engaging with the business and operations across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory on financial crime escalations to second line. This will include CDD, high risk situations, PEPs, gifts and entertainment, sponsorships and more — exercising sound judgement on complex matters and escalating appropriately.
• Bringing commercial and balanced mindset to everything you do, enabling safe scale and growth
• Supporting and/or leading the delivery of BAU delivery items – policy, risk assessment, training, MI: the good stuff!
• Identify and help deliver AI use cases that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of second-line financial crime risk management.

Skills

Financial crime

AML/ABC

Fraud

Sanctions

Stakeholder management

Job description

OakNorth Bank in London is seeking a mid-senior Manager, Financial Crime to join our second line of defence. You will advise on escalations, perform CDD in high-risk cases, and shape policy alongside MLRO and stakeholders across the business.

With around 5 years of experience in regulated financial crime, you’ll bring AML, ABC, fraud and sanctions expertise, plus a commercial mindset to support safe growth and the intelligent use of AI in risk management.