Senior Business Subject Matter Expert, Financial Crime

Join us as a Senior Financial Crime Specialist

• This specialist role will see you partnering with the business and our Risk function to ensure our products, services, and ways of working protect our customers and society
• Within this specialist capacity, you'll make a vital contribution to driving a generative culture of risk awareness, recommending solutions to financial crime risk issues, and strengthening the level of ownership within the business
• Hone your financial crime and business skills and advance your career in this fast-paced and varied role with a firm emphasis on your development
• We're offering a starting salary of £62,040 plus pension and benefit funding

What you'll do

We'll look to you to act as a trusted advisor on all elements of financial crime, helping to assess risks, and developing new products and services which are safe by design. You'll also support the financial crime business lead to deliver an agile portfolio of activities and drive the continuous improvement of our customer journeys. You'll make sure the business strategy is compliant with our financial crime policy, and external laws and regulations, in order to prevent money laundering, breaches of sanctions, terrorism financing, bribery, and corruption within the franchises.

In addition to this, you'll be responsible for:

• Leading and inspiring a specialist team
• Assisting franchises to manage financial crime risks
• Measuring and reporting to forums and committees on how the team is performing in managing financial crime risks and driving improvements
• Providing financial crime advice on customers and transactions
• Preparing and presenting papers on financial crime related matters to senior level committees
• Providing training to businesses, functions, and legal entities on financial crime risks

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need an understanding of financial crime regulatory requirements and how these apply to non-personal products and services. We'll also look to you to bring strong stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence at senior management levels and collaborate across an organisation. You'll also have the ability to help develop deep relationships with different stakeholders and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.

On top of this, you'll bring:

• The ability to analyse and evaluate multiple sources of information, alternatives, and associated consequences
• Experience of leading teams
• Experience of working within approved governance to make sure that any changes to existing documented procedures are compliant with policy and regulatory requirements
• Experience of collecting, evaluating, and documenting business requirements