Financial Crime Oversight Manager Fraud

Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Oversight Manager

In this critical role, you’ll be assisting the first line of defence and Risk teams in relation to all financial crime risks. This will include anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, anti-tax evasion, sanctions and external and internal fraud. It’s an opportunity to gain exposure and build meaningful and lasting relationships with the wider Risk function, ensuring good collaboration is maintained across Financial Crime.

What you'll do

As a Financial Crime Risk Oversight Manager, you’ll be overseeing and advising on risk-taking activities undertaken by the business. We’ll look to you to make sure the business operates within the parameters of all financial crime policies, frameworks and appetites, as set by Financial Crime Risk. Working closely with Financial Crime Risk technical specialists, you’ll also make sure upstream regulatory risk agendas are understood and factored into the business plans for change.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the formation of formal risk opinion in executive reporting in respect of the business’ financial crime risk profile and control environment
• Attending relevant governance committees
• Delivering robust oversight of systems and controls with a pan financial crime risk lens
• Ensuring appropriate governance arrangements are in place to achieve ongoing compliance with Financial Crime policies
• Supporting and challenging the business development of new products and services and testing adherence with financial crime risk policies, framework requirements and appetite

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need strong industry knowledge and commercial awareness of financial crime risk and risk management principles. You’ll have good communication skills to provide proactive and effective financial crime risk oversight and challenge. It’s desirable that the applicant has both financial crime and fraud oversight experience and an industry recognised Financial Crime qualification.

We’ll also look for you to bring:

• Good experience of risk management and application of risk strategy
• Well-developed stakeholder and relationship management skills
• The ability to work collaboratively and influence direction
• Practical experience as a stakeholder in managing financial crime implementation projects