Head of Financial Crime, RBSI

Join us as Head of Financial Crime, RBSI

• This is an opportunity to lead the RBSI Financial Crime team and bring tangible change to our organisation.
• You’ll be accountable for providing oversight, monitoring, and challenge of the service provision from the NatWest Financial Crime Hub and delivering local legal and regulatory requirements.
• It’s a chance to build relationships and work collaboratively with the business, and across teams in RBSI, leading the first line of defence financial crime strategy for RBSI ensuring it meets its regulatory requirements and keeps its customers safe and secure.

What you'll do

We’ll look to you to lead your team to maintain effective oversight and governance of RBSI financial crime risk frameworks, systems, and controls. You’ll direct, monitor and review the delivery and receipt of services into RBSI while overseeing the adherence to our financial crime standards.

You’ll provide expert guidance and direction to the business in the application of effective risk and control frameworks and consideration of financial crime risk in decision making. As well as overseeing the development and implementation of financial crime risk and control mechanisms for the business within agreed risk appetites, you’ll make sure that all first line of defence local regulatory requirements are delivered in full.

You’ll also:

• Make sure that the business addresses financial crime risk concerns within the management of our customer, geographic, and product portfolio life-cycle and undertake the robust remediation of known risks.
• Work collaboratively with other business units and functional leadership teams with regards to effective AML risk management.
• Be responsible for the delivery of Operational Tax activity including material appetite decisions for RBSI on Anti-Tax Evasion, oversight of approval into tax authorities, and across all jurisdictions.
• Drive the management of financial crime risk to meet our conduct risk appetite and the expectations of our regulators.
• Keep informed of the changing regulatory environment, and assess and communicate its impact to internal stakeholders.

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone educated to degree level, preferably with a post graduate qualification. You’ll have relevant technical qualifications in AML, anti-bribery and corruption, or STF compliance, and a deep understanding of the financial service industry.

You’ll also need:

• A robust and broad understanding of risk management principles, regulatory frameworks, and AML or sanctions compliance.
• Technical expertise of relevant political and legislative developments across the financial industry, with the ability to guide and influence business representatives on related matters.
• The ability to deliver oversight activity which can serve as indelible evidence to regulators that conduct risks have been identified within targeted processes.
• Experience of developing high performing teams, with strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• The ability to collaborate across boundaries and build solid relationships, both internally and externally.
• Experience of delivering sustainable performance and driving operational excellence while committing to the appropriate level of supervision and control to manage risk.