Manager Financial Crime Compliance

COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is looking for a Manager Financial Crime Compliance. The role involves delivering a strategic approach to compliance, providing expert advice, and collaborating with teams to implement frameworks. Ideal candidates should have a high level of understanding of AML and sanctions, along with experience in a regulatory financial crime compliance environment. Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills are essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Superior business knowledge and acumen.
• Demonstrated expertise in providing strategic advice and high-quality professional services.
• Proven experience in regulatory financial crime compliance environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of a strategic approach to financial crime compliance.
• Provide independent advice to support the implementation of the framework.
• Work closely with Operational Risk and Compliance teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Strategic advice provision

Data analysis

Job description

See yourself in our team

Risk Management is responsible for developing the risk frameworks to allow the Group to take conscious exposures to credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks within a Board-approved appetite. RiskManagement ensures the Group has appropriate strategies and frameworks in place to assess, manage and report on credit, market, operational, compliance and insurance risks for Singapore Branch.

Financial Crime Compliance provides support to the Group’s domestic and international operations. Protecting the banks integrity, reputation and community providing robust foundations and proactive support to enable the business to be confident in its accountability for managing Financial Crime Risk. Equipping the business units globally with simple fit for purpose frameworks, tools and advice to ensure proactive and effective identification and management of financial crime.

Your Role

As Manager Financial Crime Compliance, you will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of a strategic, integrated approach to financial crime compliance across the group, providing advice and functional expertise.

Key tasks:

• Provide independent advice/functional expertise to support the implementation of the framework and policyincluding as it relates to issues arising from KYC, screening and monitoring activities of businesses related to customer; third party; product; channel; jurisdiction and transactions.
• Work closely with the Operational Risk and Compliance teams to have a coordinated approach to framework, policy, assurance, use of RiskInsight and data capture, key risk management processes such as incidents and breach management, RCSA etc
• Provide business support and expert advice
• Apply the Group’s FCC framework and risk mitigation strategy and support the maturation of this framework
• Contribute to efforts to reduce the potential impact of current and emerging FCC risks on CBA customers, through a focus on high risk customers and customer segments
• Contribute to strategic planning initiatives and execution of these strategies within FCC
• Contribute to Regulator relationship management/Data analysis and intelligence/ Assurance activities as required

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Superior business knowledge and acumen.
• Demonstrated expertise in providing strategic advice, high-quality professional services, and contributing to the execution and delivery of projects.
• Demonstrated proactive stakeholder management skills, proven through previous success influencing peers and leaders.
• A proven team leader, someone who embraces teamwork and thrive in a team environment.
• Ability to self-identify priorities, deliver to deadline and handle challenging demands and partners.
• Collaboration across a multi-jurisdictional matrix reporting structure.
• Proven experience in regulatory financial crime compliance environment with experience in financial services.
• A high level of understanding of AML, Sanctions and Anti Bribery & Corruption obtained through working within a regulated market or at a regulator
• Good understanding of the financial services regulatory environment including technical knowledge of relevant regional and local regulations.
• Experience in applied AI competency to support financial crime compliance and AML/CFT initiatives is highlydesirable.