Financial Crime Manager

Walkers; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm is seeking a Financial Crime Manager to join their London office. The successful candidate will oversee compliance with financial crime regulations, manage a talented team, and ensure adherence to AML and sanctions legislation. This role offers a hybrid working opportunity and involves collaborating with global teams on compliance projects, ensuring high standards of practice across jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Experience in an international compliance function focusing on AML, sanctions, and financial crime.
• Management experience with team leadership skills.
• Knowledge of risk-based approach to compliance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor AML/CTF developments and provide updates to the compliance team.
• Manage Financial Crime advisors and support regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Assist with regulatory inspections and implement financial crime policies.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Client Focused

Time Management

Education

Compliance certification or equivalent

Degree in law or finance

Job description

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We are a leading international law and professional services firm providing legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital market participants and investment fund managers. With a global presence spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we advise on the laws of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey.

We treat everyone as the intelligent professional they are. Our approach is to trust and empower our people to deliver consistently, and enable them to succeed. Diversity is our secret weapon – it’s the sheer breadth of Walkers people that makes us who we are – gathered from across the globe and fluent in languages, jurisdictions and cultures that help us to mirror our clients and keep our own thinking in tune with the world in which we operate.

Overview Of Role

Office: London (hybrid available 50%)

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Financial Crime advisory team, which sits within the Compliance team, and supports the Group in adhering to AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and advises on other financial crime issues and regulatory compliance matters in the jurisdictions in which the Group operates. The FC team supports the Group in relation to all regulatory submissions and regulatory inspections, including any remedial actions required thereafter, working closely with the wider Group compliance team. The FC team is also responsible for compliance monitoring by assisting with the review of business risk assessments, horizon scanning and maintenance of the breaches log. The team will ensure, among other things that our policies, procedures and risk appetites evolve with the changing regulatory landscape. The Financial Crime Manager will work closely with the Head of Risk and Compliance and Senior Financial Crime Manager to strengthen a global approach to financial crime compliance, compliance monitoring and developing policies and procedures and training.

The Financial Crime Manager will support the team on global initiatives and projects, including assisting with responses to internal audits and regulatory inspections, training & communications and policy drafting.

The role is based in the London office, however the successful applicant will occasionally be required to travel to other offices when necessary.

Duties, Responsibilities & Person Specification

• Monitor developments in AML/CTF, anti-bribery, financial crime and sanctions legislation, and regulatory updates in connection with the same in each jurisdiction, providing updates for the Risk and Compliance team and MLROs/ DMLROs in each office.
• Manage a team of Financial Crime advisors dedicated to advising the group on sanctions, financial crime and regulatory queries.
• Assist with handling ad hoc queries from the group and the wider Risk and Compliance team.
• Support the Head of Risk and Compliance and Senior Financial Crime Manager on the roll out and implementation of the Group Compliance Financial Crime Framework, including the implementation of policies & procedures, robust screening controls, the sanctions reporting framework and the delivery of training to the Risk and Compliance team and the Group.
• Be a first point of escalation for all queries from all advisors within the Financial Crime team.
• Assisting with overseeing the inbox, horizon scanning and all other daily tasks and ensuring work is assigned amongst the team appropriately and efficiently.
• Assist the Senior Financial Crime Manager to mentor and support the team.
• Provide support to the team in the submission of iSARs to the MLROs across the Walkers network.
• Assist the Senior Financial Crime Manager with responses to internal audit reports and regulatory inspections, including carrying out ad hoc file reviews to ensure any process improvements are being adopted.
• Support management in the preparation of regulatory inspections and assisting with any remediation items identified.
• Provide support to the team on the submission of regulatory annual filings.
• Provide support on any global compliance projects affecting the Group as required by the GC, Head of Risk and Compliance and Director of Compliance.
• Work closely with the Senior Financial Crime Manager, Head of Risk and Compliance and Director of Compliance with regional and global compliance projects as required and support and promote a positive and proactive risk management culture across the team and regions.
  
  
  

Education, Skills & Experience

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Compliance professional with previous/current experience in management in an international compliance function with a focus on AML, sanctions, and other financial crime; preferably in a law firm environment or alternatively in the financial services sector.
• People management experience.
• Practical knowledge and experience of applying a risk-based approach to compliance.
• Good knowledge of sanctions regimes, PEPs and other high-risk categories; understanding of offshore structures, particularly in a funds context.
  
  
  

Skills & Personal Attributes

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to communicate with partners, employees and (where appropriate) with the firm's clients.
• Enthusiastic and proactive, strong inter-personal skills and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong research and analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Proactive and takes initiative.
• Ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion.
• Client- focused and commercial aptitude.
• Ability to work under pressure and responsive to the expectations of partners and clients.
• Able to prioritise competing demands; excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Keen to develop a career in risk and compliance.
  
  
  

Walkers global is an equal opportunity employer. Equality and diversity are key to our global identity and an integral part of our goal to continue being an employer of choice. We are committed to a work environment that supports all individuals irrespective of gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We make every effort to ensure that employment opportunities are open and accessible to all purely on the basis of personal ability.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Analyst and Management

• Industries

  Law Practice and Legal Services

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