Job Description: Financial Crime Risk Manager
A leading global financial institution is seeking a highly experienced Financial Crimes Risk Manager to strengthen its first-line risk management capabilities within a complex, international services business. This is a senior strategic role, responsible for ensuring proactive, effective, and end-to-end management of financial crime risks across multiple products, regions, and functions. The ideal candidate will bring deep subject-matter expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to influence across a large, global organisation. This role offers significant visibility with senior management and the opportunity to shape financial crime control effectiveness at scale.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and enhance the financial crimes control environment across products, services, and operational processes, including customer lifecycle and transaction-related controls.
* Provide expert guidance to business, risk, operations, technology, and compliance partners to ensure a cohesive, well-designed control framework.
* Assess and strengthen existing processes and controls, identifying gaps and ensuring alignment with global and local regulatory expectations.
* Maintain clear risk and process mapping to ensure transparency of control ownership and coverage.
* Drive the identification, escalation, and remediation of control issues, including root-cause analysis and sustainable resolution planning.
* Build strong partnerships across business heads, operations, technology teams, and second-line functions to ensure a unified approach to financial crime risk management.
* Conduct thematic and targeted reviews of financial crime processes to validate consistency, control effectiveness, and policy adherence.
* Monitor emerging risks, regulatory developments, and product innovation to ensure the control environment evolves appropriately.
* Provide oversight through metrics analysis, monitoring activity, and reviewing corrective action plans.
* Prepare high-quality reporting and updates for senior stakeholders, risk committees, and governance forums.
* Support timely responses to regulatory inquiries and contribute to cross-business initiatives.
* Identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and improve the client experience.
* Collaborate with peers across the organisation to ensure a holistic approach to sanctions, AML, and broader financial crime risk.
Qualifications & Experience
* Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree desirable.
* 15+ years’ experience in financial crime compliance, AML/CTF, sanctions, or risk management within financial services.
* Recognised professional certifications (e.g., ACAMS, ACSS).
* Strong understanding of payments, correspondent banking, trade finance, working capital, and liquidity products.
* Demonstrated experience in risk and controls, process management, or financial crime-related operations.
* Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide clear, insightful challenge.
* Experience operating within a large, globally-distributed organisation.
* Proven project management and change-management skills, with the ability to drive complex initiatives.
* Strong analytical capability with the ability to assess processes and recommend enhancements to quality, controls, and efficiency.
* Independent, self-starting, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
* Experience managing teams and developing talent.
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