Senior Financial Crime Manager

As a Financial Crime Manager, you will be responsible for the management of the Financial Crime team. You will be responsible for work allocation, quality and the continuous training and development of the team. The role will include hands on involvement to deliver department activities.

As a Financial Crime Manager, we are looking for someone to:

• Define and implement processes to enable staff to report suspicious activities in respect of money laundering, including reporting to the National Crime Agency where necessary.
• Be responsible for management and resourcing of the Financial Crime Operations Team. Allocate and manage workload of the team.
• Manage the performance of the team through delivery of competency and QA framework and team training and development plans to develop the skills of the team and encourage retention.
• Maintain comprehensive Financial Crime department procedures and records which meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the team undertake CDD on high risk customers pre and post funding in accordance with the CDD manual including investigation of PEP, Sanction and adverse media alerts.
• Investigate SARs and recommend a course of action to the DMLRO and MLRO prior to SAR submission and reporting.

Requirements

Essential

• In depth knowledge of financial crime and financial services regulations, im particular Money Laundering Regulations and FCA
• Significant experience of practical application of ML regulations into operational activities
• Significant experience of fraud prevention techniques, fraud investigations and management
• Ability to assess risks and evaluate impacts and develop appropriate, proportionate responses.
• Previous people management experience