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