Opportunity

Head of Financial Crime, Banking

London, hybrid working

A newly created role to lead a Financial Crime Team and provide oversight, monitoring, and challenge of the service provision of a central Financial Crime Hub and to deliver local legal and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build relationships and work collaboratively with the business, and across Ring Fence teams, delivering advice on transactions, customers or situations that involve financial crime matters generating a positive open culture
  • Direct and advise the team to maintain effective oversight and governance of the bank’s financial crime risk frameworks, systems and controls
  • Monitor and review the delivery and receipt of services into the bank, ensuring delivery to the requirements and expectations of the business and ensuring that local legal/regulatory expectations are met
  • Responsible for delivery of Operational Tax activity including material appetite decisions on Anti-Tax Evasion, oversight of approval into tax authorities and across all jurisdictions

Candidates will have:

  • A deep understanding of the financial service industry and have a robust and broad understanding of risk management principles and regulatory framework.
  • Strong leadership skills to empower teams to actively challenge how things are done, to continually improve the customer experience and lead fundamental change
  • Experience of developing high performing teams, with strong coaching and mentoring skills
  • Senior stakeholder relationship management skills, able to build trust and demonstrate value, collaborate across boundaries, network, influence and connect to build relationships internally and externally
  • Technical expertise of relevant political and legislative developments across the financial industry, with the ability to guide and influence business representatives on related matters
  • The ability to deliver oversight activity which can serve as indelible evidence to regulators that conduct risks have been identified within target processes
  • Industry awareness of AML or sanctions compliance
  • Knowledge of the regulatory environment, divisional frameworks and methodologies
  • Relevant technical qualifications in AML, anti-bribery and corruption or STF compliance

 

 

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