Senior Manager, Enforcement & Illicit Finance

The Independent Football Regulator; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Civil Service pension

Job summary

The Independent Football Regulator seeks an Enforcement and Illicit Finance Senior Manager to lead enforcement strategy, portfolio development, and complex investigations, coordinating with the Head of Department and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to safeguard football’s integrity and financial resilience.

You will partner with data, policy, legal and supervision teams to ensure coherent enforcement activity, provide evidence-based recommendations to the IFR board, and help

Qualifications

• Proven experience in overseeing regulatory enforcement investigations.
• Experience or knowledge of illicit finance / financial crime supervision frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sound judgement and ability to reach evidence-based decisions, balancing a range of considerations and complex sources of information to ensure legally defensible outcomes.
• Strong delivery capability, successfully delivering at pace in a high-risk project environment.
• Ability to provide strong direction and persuasive future vision for the function, setting it up for future success.
• A collaborative approach and ability to think creatively about new and emerging challenges.

Responsibilities

• Oversee enforcement strategy and enforcement portfolio, developing policies and procedures.
• Lead investigations and high-profile case work for enforcement.
• Collaborate closely with data, policy, legal and supervision teams to ensure coherent activity.
• Support IFR board in taking robust regulatory decisions.

Skills

Regulatory enforcement

Financial crime knowledge

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Delivery leadership

Job description

The Independent Football Regulator seeks an Enforcement and Illicit Finance Senior Manager to lead enforcement strategy, portfolio development, and complex investigations, coordinating with the Head of Department and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to safeguard football’s integrity and financial resilience.

You will partner with data, policy, legal and supervision teams to ensure coherent enforcement activity, provide evidence-based recommendations to the IFR board, and help