Financial Crime Systems Manager

Our City-based Banking client are a long established, award winning savings provider to both consumer and commercial customers, offering a diverse range of specialist products. They now require an experienced Financial Crime Systems Manager to join a growing compliance team.

The purpose of the Financial Crime Systems Manager role is to represent the Financial Crime team in projects that impact the Bank's exposure to financial crime and assisting the Compliance Director in the selection of any third-party providers used within the Bank's Financial Crime Control environment.

Specific duties will include:

• Responsible for acting as the Financial Crime key stakeholder in Bank-wide projects
• Establish good working relationships with relevant project stakeholders for efficient implementation
• Managing and owning the Lexis Nexis RiskNarrative (LNRN) project from a financial crime compliance perspective
• Working with other business units, to identify LNRN project deliverables and timelines
• Support the LNRN project plan and monitor closely to ensure timely delivery
• Deliver assigned financial crime compliance deliverables for LNRN project to agreed timelines, scope, and quality
• Identify LNRN project risks and issues and escalate these as appropriate with mitigation plans
• Ensure the LNRN project is delivered to required quality with evidenced testing to support this
• Complete on-going testing to ensure LNRN and other third-party solutions are operating in line with requirements and the Bank's risk appetite
• Create and maintain appropriate MI to evidence the effectiveness of the controls
• Make recommendations to the Compliance Director on control environment changes to further enhance the Bank's control environment
• Liaise with Lexis Nexis and other third parties to deliver on project components
• Providing regular status updates on progress of LNRN project to Compliance Director and Committees as required
• Support the Compliance Director with other ad hoc work and system projects as required

The ideal candidate for the role of Financial Crime Systems Manager will have:

• Strong Financial Crime understanding with previous experience of Financial Crime investigations
• Good understanding of mitigating financial crime risks through system automation
• Sound knowledge of AML Risk Based Approach concepts
• Knowledge of the regulatory and legislative requirements and industry practice for financial crime
• Experienced in financial crime compliance testing/ sampling and assuring processes and controls to mitigate financial crime risks