Manager - Financial Crime

Aptia Group India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptia Group India is seeking a senior professional to lead financial crime policy development in Mumbai/Pune. The role focuses on strengthening AML frameworks, SAR handling, and regulatory reporting across the organisation.

You will interact with senior management, regulators, and auditors to ensure governance and risk controls are robust and well-documented. 12+ years of experience in financial crime, compliance, or risk management is required, with deep knowledge of UK/US AML, sanctions, and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with UK/US AML/CTF and sanctions.
• Proven SARs production and regulatory reporting.
• Strong stakeholder and board-level communication.
• Experience coordinating across business functions and risk teams.

Responsibilities

• Policy framework development.
• Develop financial crime policies, procedures, and guidance across the organisation in line with Aptia s business model, risk appetite, and regulatory obligations.
• Strengthen Aptia s AML framework, ensuring SAR handling processes, governance, and record-keeping align with best practice.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Group s financial crime due diligence framework.
• Controls Assessment - Assess the financial crime controls of group functions and QA over 1st Line of defense related financial crime activities.
• Financial Crime Operations - Support regulatory engagements, lead AML and fraud investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions escalations, and internal reporting processes.
• Advisory - Act as a senior escalation point for suspicious activity, sanctions matches or complex fraud cases.
• Reporting - Produce and present MI for senior stakeholders, committees, and the Board covering financial crime risks, escalations, KRIs, and incidents undefined.

Skills

AML/CTF frameworks

SAR reporting

Regulatory engagement

Stakeholder management

Sanctions

Fraud investigations

Communications

Job description

Job Requirements

• Location - Mumbai / Pune
• Experience - 12+ yrs experience

Responsibilities

• Policy Framework Development
• Develop financial crime policies, procedures, and guidance across the organisation in line with Aptia s business model, risk appetite, and regulatory obligations.
• Strengthen Aptia s Anti-Money Laundering framework, ensuring SAR handling processes, governance, and record-keeping align with best practice.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the Group s financial crime due diligence framework.
• Controls Assessment - Assess the financial crime controls of group functions (Finance, HR, Procurement, and Third-Party Risk Management) and Quality Assurance over 1st Line of defense related financial crime activities
• Financial Crime Operations - Support Regulatory engagements, Support / Lead AML and fraud investigations, transaction monitoring, sanctions escalations, and internal reporting processes.
• Advisory - Act as a senior escalation point for suspicious activity, sanctions matches or complex fraud cases.
• Reporting - Produce and present MI for senior stakeholders, committees, and the Board covering financial crime risks, escalations, KRIs, and incidents undefined.

Key Skills

• Strong technical knowledge of UK and US AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud, and ABC frameworks.
• Proven experience in producing SARs, OFSI and OFAC reports, and with regulatory engagement.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to work with senior management, clients, trustees, and regulators.
• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders effectively, both internally (business functions, 1LOD, committees) and externally (clients, auditors, regulators).

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