Senior Financial Crime Manager

Summary: The Senior AML/Financial Crime Manager will join a leading financial services firm on a 12-month fixed-term contract, acting as a Deputy MLRO. This role involves delivering AML objectives, maintaining governance, and managing relationships with stakeholders. The position requires strong second line of defense experience in financial crime and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. The successful candidate will also support the MLRO in managing the Sanctions Screening programme and ensure compliance with AML regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver prioritised AML objectives, deliverables, and change projects.
• Draft and update UK AML policies, standards, and procedures for review.
• Contribute to monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting for UK senior management and enterprise stakeholders.
• Maintain key relationships with global teams to oversee cross-border processes and ensure potential changes are appropriately prioritised.
• Lead High Risk Country assessments and ensure related actions are completed effectively.
• Provide insight and challenge to cross-functional projects, ensuring AML risks are identified, mitigated, and escalated where appropriate.
• Use data and professional judgement to influence design and implementation of AML change initiatives.
• Stay current with industry and regulatory developments in AML/CTF and provide relevant updates to stakeholders.
• Provide second line assurance across business change and processes impacting AML requirements.
• Support and advise on remediation of AML/CTF-related events and issues.
• Conduct testing of AML-owned controls and ensure issues are documented and resolved.
• Maintain oversight of first line AML controls and ensure appropriate escalation and reporting of risks.
• Partner with business areas to ensure AML controls and testing are well-designed, effective, and sustainable.
• Maintain strong working relationships across risk, operations, and compliance teams to proactively manage issues and weaknesses.
• Support the MLRO in managing the Sanctions Screening programme.
• Oversee processes related to sanctions list and hotlist screening in partnership with global teams.
• Ensure sanctions controls, procedures, and documentation are complete, effective, and up to date.
• Identify and address any process gaps or risks within the sanctions framework.

Key Skills:

• Strong 2nd LOD experience with prior experience of business wide risk assessments, advisory and overseeing operational financial crime functions.
• Experience within a financial service firm dealing with retail clients.
• Ability to work in Nottingham 3 days a week.
• Ability to start at short notice is highly advantageous.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Nottingham

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other