Head of Economic Crime

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 117,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job Share

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Head of Economic Crime to lead a strategic, data-driven control function across Wealth & Insurance. The role focuses on building scalable controls, leveraging AI and automation while engaging with risk, Audit and regulators to protect customers and assets.

You will collaborate with multiple business units, align with policy and regulatory expectations, and drive transformation across hybrid office sites in Edinburgh, Leeds or Bristol.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in risk management, fraud and financial crime.
• Proven ability to build and lead diverse, offshore-enabled teams.
• Experience leveraging data, automation and process reengineering to improve controls.
• Strong regulatory knowledge including consumer duty.

Responsibilities

• Build a high-performing, commercially minded, innovative and customer-first team.
• Design, implement and enhance end-to-end economic crime controls.
• Support pragmatic decision-making to improve customer experience.
• Deliver a proactive and predictive control culture using data and AI.
• Develop risk-based, data-led control testing and monitoring with risk, Audit and regulators.
• Collaborate across Wealth & Insurance and the Group to share insights and governance data.

Skills

Risk management

Fraud & financial crime

Regulatory knowledge

Leadership

Job description

End Date

Wednesday 18 November 2026

Salary Range

£116,535 - £137,100

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Head of Economic Crime.

SALARY: Competitive/market rate.

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Leeds or Bristol.

HOURS: Full-time.

WORKING PATTERN

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of the above office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

Wealth & Insurance (W&I) aims to redefine the Insurance and Pensions market by developing innovative digital propositions that deliver exceptional customer experiences. To stay relevant in a competitive, volatile, and digitally driven environment, our business must evolve rapidly.

Our Head of Economic Crime role offers a unique opportunity to drive significant growth and transformation within W&I. You’ll lead a team of experts, influence internal customers across the Group, and shape new ways of working. By maximising data, MI, automation, and AI, you’ll help build a proactive and predictive control culture, focusing on protecting our customers and business while optimising and automating fraud and financial crime controls.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting directly to the Chief Controls Officer (CCO) for W&I, you’ll play a strategic role in designing, optimising, and automating our control environment. As the Nominated Senior Manager (NSM) for Fraud, AML, Sanctions & Anti-Bribery, and Nominated Officer (NO) for Insurance, you’ll engage and influence across LBG to ensure our business remains well-controlled and customer-focused, while reducing operational losses.

Your accountabilities will include:

• Building a high-performing, commercially minded, innovative and customer-first team (leveraging AI) that partners with platforms and business across core sites (including offshore).
• Designing, implementing, and enhancing the end-to-end economic crime control environment, ensuring adherence to regulations, policy and risk appetite, and moving towards automated, sustainable, and scalable controls to meet strategic and regulatory objectives.
• Supporting the business in achieving a leading end-to-end customer experience through pragmatic decision-making, influencing, innovation, and inspiring change at pace.
• Delivering a proactive and predictive control culture using data, insights, innovation, and technology.
• Developing effective, ongoing risk-based, data-led control testing and monitoring in collaboration with risk specialist teams, Audit, and external regulators.
• Collaborating within W&I and the Group to offer insights and share findings on lessons learned, best practices, and market insights through governance and data.

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for?

• Deep (c15 year’s) experience of risk management (particularly fraud and financial crime), control by design, policy compliance, governance and regulatory knowledge (including consumer duty).
• Shown ability to build, lead and inspire an engaged, diverse, solution focused and high performing team both on and offshore.
• Confirmed ability to support the growth of the W&I business, building automated controls which are sustainable and scalable, mitigating challenges and driving good customer outcomes, including those for vulnerable customers.
• Demonstrableprevious experience and knowledge of Wealth & Insurance and the technology landscape.
• Experience of redefining and changing businesses sustainably, with a particular focus on using data to provide insights, bringing to bear new technologies, process reengineering, innovation and cost of control.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentational skills. This also includes the ability to work across different Group functions to ensure W&I is represented.
• Proactively and pragmatically identify and resolve challenges and lead ad hoc control focused initiatives which support the growth of the business, including targeted testing. Be comfortable shaping solutions and dealing with ambiguity as you develop what good looks like.

This is a place for you:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.