Financial Crime Senior Manager

www.topfinancialjobs.co.uk - Jobboard; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks a Financial Crime Manager who will enhance the culture of risk awareness and manage compliance projects. This role involves developing financial crime strategies, training staff, and ensuring regulatory compliance, with a flexible home-based option available.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial crime management and oversight.
• Strong understanding of financial crime legislation and regulations.
• Experience in Business Process Services and financial services.

Responsibilities

• Design and delivery of the Financial Crime framework.
• Support projects ensuring AML compliance and effective fraud risk management.
• Train staff to maintain knowledge for their roles.

Skills

Knowledge of financial crime policy

Experience in a regulated industry

Financial crime management skills

Job description

Your new company and role
Joining the Financial Crime team, supporting some of the UK's leading businesses, we are seeking to appoint a new Financial Crime Manager. We are looking for you to arrive with expertise and experience to improve our current services.
The successful candidate must be eligible to gain Security Clearance. This role can be home-based within the UK, with minimal travel to office.

The key objective of the Financial Crime Manager is to embed and maintain a culture of Financial Crime Risk awareness throughout the account, while contributing to the development of the financial crime project deliverables, to enable both operational readiness and client satisfaction, while providing leadership across teams as a key subject-matter expert.

Relationships in the role:

• Matrix management reporting to Financial Crime Director (MLRO)
• Senior customer management teams
• Critical 3rd party suppliers and internal/external auditors

Description: Financial Crime Senior Manager - 6 months, £775pd, inside IR35, remote

Your new company and role
Joining the Financial Crime team, supporting some of the UK's leading businesses, we are seeking to appoint a new Financial Crime Manager. We are looking for you to arrive with expertise and experience to improve our current services.
The successful candidate must be eligible to gain Security Clearance. This role can be home-based within the UK, with minimal travel to office.

The key objective of the Financial Crime Manager is to embed and maintain a culture of Financial Crime Risk awareness throughout the account, while contributing to the development of the financial crime project deliverables, to enable both operational readiness and client satisfaction, while providing leadership across teams as a key subject-matter expert.

Relationships in the role:

• Matrix management reporting to Financial Crime Director (MLRO)
• Senior customer management teams
• Critical 3rd party suppliers and internal/external auditors

Key aspects of the role include:

• Framework - Design and delivery of the Financial Crime framework, tools and mechanisms
• Projects - Providing support to projects and systems developments, ensuring regulatory AML compliance and effective fraud risk management
• Policy & Advice - Contributing to the assessment/development of the Financial Crime strategy for the relevant business units
• Risk - Supporting the identification potential of actual financial crime risks and ensuring appropriate action
• Policy - Contribute where required to maintaining Anti-Money Laundering general Financial Crime Policies and Procedures
• Training - To ensure that staff are suitably trained and have the requisite level of knowledge to perform their roles
• Advice - Offer support and guidance to the Financial Crime Analysts (AML/CTF/Fraud) (1st line)
• Oversight - Review the work of 2nd Line Financial Crime Analysts (AML/CTF/Fraud) to ensure that this is of sufficient quality and accuracy
• Assurance - Undertake monthly assurance work over 1st Line Teams to ensure full regulatory compliance
• Controls - Complete monthly RCSA checks for Quality Assurance purposes
• Escalations and Regulatory - Oversee and approve all PEPs with engagement with the client
• Sanctions - Check and advise on any possible sanction match referrals, including informing the client and OFSI where relevant
• Investigations - Assist in the liaison with the relevant financial crime authorities

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this role, we anticipate you will have a mix of the below

• Experience in a regulated industry
• Knowledge of financial crime policy, legislation, regulations and systems
• Working within a Business Process Services environment and financial services
• Strong experience in a financial crime management and/or oversight role

Good knowledge and understanding of the Risk operating environment.

What you need to do now

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