Head of FCP Risk Management

却潮敘; London; Hybrid; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job description

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity.

With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.

Position Purpose:

To ensure that risks to the prevention of financial crime are identified, measured, analysed and reported.

Responsibilities

Primary duties will include:

• To assist the Chief Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Head of Financial Crime Prevention EMEA to ensure timely and effective financial crime prevention risk management.
• To partner with the business, to ensure effective communication regarding financial crime prevention risk management, building relationships and breaking down information silos.
• To work with the development teams globally, to ensure effective data capture, and implement changes required, for example as a result of new regulations or new business initiatives to support financial crime prevention risk management.
• To work with other teams including Operations, Regulatory Operations, Finance and Risk to design, implement and maintain new systems and controls for financial crime risk management.
• To support the Chief Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Head of Financial Crime Prevention EMEA and the wider business access quality, timely management information regarding financial crime risk exposure.
• To research and understand new technology to support business growth and ensure that the systems and controls can be scaled to keep pace with change.
• To undertake thematic work to assess the firms’ financial crime prevention risk exposure and make recommendations to the business to enable it to ensure effective risk management and compliance with financial crime prevention regulations.
• Develop and strengthen relationships across the organisation to promote best practice and ensure a good understanding of Financial Crime Prevention risk management requirements.
• Other duties as assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• Strong understanding of financial crime prevention requirements in regulated financial institutions.
• Strong knowledge of MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR, SFTR, AEOI, GDPR, Sanctions, ABC and other applicable relevant laws and regulations.
• Excellent critical thinking, with the ability to analyse situations and solve problems, delivering practical and compliant financial crime prevention risk management.
• Must understand and be able to apply a risk-based approach to financial crime prevention.
• Must have experience of delivering comprehensive financial crime risk assessments.

What makes you stand out:

• Strong and efficient decision-making skills with the ability to use judgement and operate autonomously.
• Effective planning, organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to see the bigger picture and deal effectively with competing priorities.
• Well-developed relationship-building and communication skills.
• Ability to proactively identify and analyse problems and design effective solutions.
• Ability to lead and manage people and achieve results through others.

Working environment:

• Hybrid.