Manager, Financial Crime Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments & Monitoring – 12 months FTC – 29250

The Emerald Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Manager for Financial Crime Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments. The role involves creating and maintaining financial crime risk assessments across the firm, using systems like Arctic Intelligence. Ideal candidates will have a relevant professional qualification and strong knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements. This position offers a hybrid work location.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in financial crime risk is highly desirable.
• Good understanding of financial crime standards and controls framework.
• Experience assessing high-risk clients and third parties.

Responsibilities

• Undertake and maintain group-wide financial crime risk assessments.
• Design, build, and maintain risk assessments within the Arctic Intelligence system.
• Update the EWRA Control Library in response to assessments and controls monitoring.

Skills

Understanding of financial crime risk

Experience with risk assessments

Knowledge of legal requirements

Ability to work with financial crime management systems

Education

Relevant professional qualification (e.g., ICA, CAMS)

Job description

Working with the Senior Manager and other senior members of the FCT, the role will involve undertaking and maintaining group-wide financial crime risk assessments designed to identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks across the firm and the wider group

• Location: Multiple UK locations (Hybrid)
• Type: Fixed Term

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• The Manager, Financial Crime Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments (EWRA) & Monitoring, is responsible for undertaking and maintaining an ongoing programme of regular group-wide Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments relating to all applicable Financial Crime Risks (money laundering & terrorist financing, proliferation financing, bribery, facilitation of tax evasion, fraud, sanctions and competition law) and designed to identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks across the firm and the wider group
• This will include the design, build and maintenance of risk assessments within the Arctic Intelligence system and the gathering of data to feed into assessments
• Maintaining and updating the EWRA Control Library within Arctic Intelligence in response to risk assessments and controls monitoring
• A relevant professional qualification (e.g., ICA, CAMS) is highly desirable
• A good understanding of the requirements and best practice for a regulated firm’s financial crime risk and controls framework, including its financial crime standards and policies and specific controls such as CDD, EDD and third-party due diligence
• A strong knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements and guidelines to which the firm is subject in relation to financial crime
• Experience reviewing, assessing and approving high-risk clients, third parties and other high-risk escalations such as gifts and hospitality, and knowledge of the financial crime risk management systems