Senior Manager Financial Crime

The Senior Manager, Line 1 Risk, Financial Crime is responsible for supporting the Head of Line 1 Risk, in coordinating and facilitating risk management activities within the first line of defence. This role plays a key part in driving a proactive risk culture across the division, enhancing the organisation's ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks.

The Senior Manager ensures that risk management frameworks and strategies are effectively integrated into business operations, strengthening the organisation's control environment, improving its risk position, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

This is an opportunity to build out your own function, and be the most senior person within the Line 1 Risk function. You'll have true autonomy and be relied on for your SME knowledge. 

Key responsibilities:

• Provide pragmatic risk advice, including identifying risks, control gaps/ deficiencies, supporting the business to remove complexity and drive a reduction in risk.
• Deliver risk insights that aid management in decision making that delivers exceptional products and services.
• Manage and advise on all the Risk Management Strategy, supporting frameworks and standards to ensure risks, obligations, control design, issues, risk in change assessments and control self-assessments are accurate and meet framework and standard requirements.
• Deliver risk governance activities, including the development of key risk indicators and Line 1 Risk reporting to the Financial Crime Operations Risk Forum, Transformation & Operations Risk Committee and Financial Crime Risk Committee.  Including, monitor and reporting on risk exposures, control effectiveness, and risk appetite tolerances at Divisional and BU levels.
• Provide risk management training and support to business units in risk management activities.
• Guide, coach and lead a team of 3.

What you'll need:

- At least 7 years experience in financial crime, ideally with exposure in a 2LOD role to ensure the SME knowledge. 

- Management experience, this can be a small team, or from an operations perspective 

- Have a clear idea of how to set up a controls function

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Risk Management, or a related field.

- Passion for the subject matter, with a curious mind and a want to continue learning and developing.