Financial Crime Oversight Manager

DF Capital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension contribution

Annual leave

Job summary

DF Capital, a Manchester-based specialist bank, seeks a Financial Crime Oversight Manager to assess, measure and monitor the firm’s financial crime risk exposure. You will advise with impact, engage stakeholders, and keep complex risk concepts clear while maintaining 2LOD independence.

The role covers design and testing of controls, policy updates, risk assessments, and collaboration across the business to improve efficiency and reduce risk in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong ethics and standards with open and direct communication across levels.
• Experience as a financial crime professional delivering outcomes-focused advice.
• Knowledge of Money Laundering Regulations 2017, JMLSG Guidance, FCA Financial Crime Guide.

Responsibilities

• Own design and testing of Financial Crime controls; track action plans and escalate as needed.
• Support the MLRO to maintain the financial crime framework and update policies.
• Lead reviews of risk assessments, customer risk assessments, and system logic.
• Conduct horizon scanning of regulatory developments with FCA and industry bodies; brief Exec/Board.
• Lead investigations of potential fraudulent or suspicious activity; support with external reporting.
• Monitor financial crime and fraud risk indicators and perform deep-dive analyses.
• Provide independent advice on systems and control design; deliver risk training as required.

Skills

Financial crime

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Change management

Job description

We're DF Capital - a specialist bank providing award-winning commercial finance, retail finance, and savings products to consumers and small businesses.

Based in Manchester, we serve thousands of customers across the UK and into Europe, supporting their ambitions with tailored financial solutions.

We help our customers realise their ambitions by doing things differently - combining the agility and innovation of a specialist lender with the security and service standards of a regulated bank. Whether it's flexible lending structures or straightforward savings options, we focus on what matters most to our customers.

In 2025, we launched DF Capital Retail Finance - a subsidiary of DF Capital Bank Limited - to offer specialist hire purchase solutions to retail customers.

Our goal is simple: to do the absolute best for our customers, our communities, and each other.

Your New Role:

Due to our current size and growth ambitions this is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is a capable leader and has a strong command of financial crime risk.

You may be looking for the next step in developing your specialism, experience, and impact at a growing Bank or may already be an experienced operator at that level.

As DF Capital's Financial Crime Oversight Manager you will be responsible for assessing, measuring and monitoring the firm's financial crime risk exposure, and providing effective and pragmatic advice and challenge for compliant management of these risks. You will be adept at engaging stakeholders, offering proportionate advice, communicating and reporting on your insights, and making the complex simple due to your command of the subject. You're happy to roll your sleeves up and work dynamically to achieve this, but understand the importance of 2LOD independence.

You will have strong knowledge of the financial crime reg-tech environment, the different systems available to manage financial crime and the new risks they can create and understand how to optimise systems and control design. You'll be motivated by reducing risk and concurrently improving efficiency. You will have the authority to make decisions about the right way to do things.

We are a small team, so the ability to self-direct and work dynamically across different subject matter is important. This will offer you the chance to get involved in a variety of subjects and initiatives, which will likely include working on project that require broader disciplines outside of your FC speciality.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the design and testing of Financial Crime controls, feeding back directly to operational teams, devising and tracking appropriate action plans, and escalating issues (where required)
• Support the MLRO to maintain the financial crime framework, advising on updates to policies and procedures in line with regulatory updates and changes to the business
• Lead reviews and updates to the Business-wide risk assessment, customer risk assessments, documentation and system-based logic and rules
• Undertake regulatory horizon scanning of financial crime regulatory developments, assessing publications and papers from the FCA and relevant industry bodies, conducting gap analysis and briefing a variety of stakeholders up to Exec and the Board
• Lead investigation of potential fraudulent, terrorist, or suspicious activity, the implementation of Anti Bribery and Corruption and Sanctions policies, presenting findings and supporting with external reporting
• Own and monitor financial crime and fraud risk indicators and provide deep-dive analysis into possible issues/trends
• Review and escalation of emerging financial crime and fraud risks
• Provide independent advice and oversight on financial crime systems and control design, and where required, design and provide risk training to the business

You will not have any direct reports but will act as a supporting coach for all colleagues who need to deepen or maintain their understanding of financial crime mitigation and compliance.

Requirements

Must possess required proficiency to perform essential tasks.

At the very heart of every DF Capital employee is a shared identity and belief in what we are and what we do. It's about how we see ourselves and what is important to us. You will live our brand values. As such you will be an approachable, empathetic problem solver, with exemplary communications skills. You will avoid the use of unnecessary jargon and display an adaptable, "can-do" attitude.

The following skills and experience are required for this role:

• Strong ethics and standards, and are comfortable with open and direct communication, across various levels of seniority
• An experienced financial crime professional, and can demonstrate successful, outcomes-focussed advice
• Strong working knowledge of the Money Laundering Regulations 2017, the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group Guidance, and the FCA Financial Crime Guide. Bonus points for other financial crime legislation (sanctions, bribery and corruption, tax evasion, etc.) - but not essential
• Experience of working in firms with diverse types of FS products, customers, channels, transactions and jurisdictions, and can make informed risk assessments of these differences
• A vision of what good looks like in compliance practices/process, and are excited by the opportunity to deliver your vision
• Can communicate concepts in a concise, simple way, even if they're complex
• Strong ability to analyse information, and make informed judgements
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change

Benefits

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• Private medical insurance for you (and your partner)
• 10% Employer pension contribution
• 30-day annual leave entitlement plus Bank/Public Holidays
• Free Gym Membership
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Discretionary share awards
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Save As You Earn company share acquisition scheme
• Tax efficient salary sacrifice scheme to obtain bicycles and electric vehicles
• 4 days per year volunteering opportunities to support our local communities
• Vibrant office location in lively city centre