We have the new and exciting opportunity to join us as the Head of Financial Crime Operations. This role will lead the financial crime operations function of the group, covering risk disciplines across anti money laundering, sanctions, terrorist financing and the facilitation of tax evasion. This is a senior leadership position ensuring effective risk management, compliance with regulatory requirements, and implementation of operational strategies to detect and prevent financial crime.
The person in role will provide leadership to operational teams handling financial crime due diligence reviews (including EDD), transaction monitoring and sanctions/AML screening alert reviews, thorough and timely investigations to deem suspicion and ensure timely disclosure to the law enforcement through SAR reporting, whilst ensuring post SAR risk mitigation is adequate with a well-established feedback loop to the strategy and analytics team. It will also provide effective reporting and thought leadership around utilising data and analytics to drive efficiency within operational processes.
The role holder will also ensure governance frameworks align with legal, regulatory, and compliance obligations as well as reporting on key risks, trends, and mitigation strategies to senior leadership and regulatory bodies.
This role can operate from either our Head Office campus in Binley, Coventry or our Manchester office but as a Group role, t...