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Financial Crime Senior Manager

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Posted 8 days ago, valid for 14 days
Location

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh EH105BP, Scotland

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The role of Financial Crime Manager involves joining the Financial Crime team to support leading UK businesses.
  • Candidates should possess strong experience in financial crime management, with a background in regulated industries and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
  • The position offers a home-based work arrangement within the UK, with a salary of £60,000 to £70,000 per year.
  • Key responsibilities include designing financial crime frameworks, ensuring compliance with AML regulations, and providing oversight and training to teams.
  • Successful applicants must be eligible to gain Security Clearance and demonstrate expertise in financial crime policies and risk management.

Your new company and role

Joining the Financial Crime team, supporting some of the UK's leading businesses, we are seeking to appoint a new Financial Crime Manager. We are looking for you to arrive with expertise and experience to improve our current services.

The successful candidate must be eligible to gain Security Clearance. This role can be home-based within the UK, with minimal travel to office.The key objective of the Financial Crime Manager is to embed and maintain a culture of Financial Crime Risk awareness throughout the account, while contributing to the development of the financial crime project deliverables, to enable both operational readiness and client satisfaction, while providing leadership across teams as a key subject-matter expert.

Relationships in the role:

  • Matrix management reporting to Financial Crime Director (MLRO)
  • Senior customer management teams.
  • Critical 3rd party suppliers and internal/external auditors.

Key aspects of the role include:

  • Framework - Design and delivery of the Financial Crime framework, tools and mechanisms.
  • Projects - Providing support to projects and systems developments, ensuring regulatory AML compliance and effective fraud risk management.
  • Policy & Advice - Contributing to the assessment/development of the Financial Crime strategy for the relevant business units.
  • Risk - Supporting the identification potential of actual financial crime risks and ensuring appropriate action.
  • Policy - Contribute where required to maintaining Anti-Money Laundering general Financial Crime Policies and Procedures.
  • Training - To ensure that staff are suitably trained and have the requisite level of knowledge to perform their roles.
  • Advice - Offer support and guidance to the Financial Crime Analysts (AML/CTF/Fraud) (1st line).
  • Oversight - Review the work of 2nd Line Financial Crime Analysts (AML/CTF/Fraud) to ensure that this is of sufficient quality and accuracy.
  • Assurance - Undertake monthly assurance work over 1st Line Teams to ensure full regulatory compliance.
  • Controls - Complete monthly RCSA checks for Quality Assurance purposes.
  • Escalations and Regulatory - Oversee and approve all PEPs with engagement with the client.
  • Sanctions - Check and advise on any possible sanction match referrals, including informing the client and OFSI where relevant.
  • Investigations - Assist in the liaison with the relevant financial crime authorities.

What you'll need to succeed To be successful in this role, we anticipate you will have a mix of the below

  • Experience in a regulated industry.
  • Knowledge of financial crime policy, legislation, regulations and systems
  • Working within a Business Process Services environment and financial services.
  • Strong experience in a financial crime management and/or oversight role.

Good knowledge and understanding of the Risk operating environment.What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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