Global Financial Crimes Specialist Training

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Global Financial Crimes Specialist Training

Up to Vice President

Belfast

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This job is responsible for supporting the execution of substantive money laundering, economic sanctions and fraud compliance and operational risk practices. Key responsibilities include assisting Global Financial Crimes executives and managers with activities that support the identification, escalation and timely mitigation of compliance and operational risks in alignment with the Compliance and Operational Risk Management (CORM) Program, the Financial Crimes and Global Compliance – Enterprise Policies and the Enterprise Fraud Risk Management Standards.

• Design comprehensive Anti‑Money Laundering (AML), Fraud, Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) training modules for employees at all levels, across the GFC Non‑US Investigations team.
• Work closely with My Learning and Academy partners to review, design and implement targeted training programmes.
• Conduct live and virtual training sessions on AML regulations, financial crime investigations, internal policies, and best practices.
• Ensure training aligns with internal compliance frameworks and external regulatory requirements.
• Support the development and maintenance of financial crimes owned policies and standards, and review relevant Front Line Units/Control Functions‑owned policies and standards to ensure that regulatory requirements and operational risks are appropriately addressed.
• Assist in the production of independent financial crimes training management reporting.
• Assist in the monitoring of changes in regulations applicable to Global Financial Crimes, including advising business leaders, directing the appropriate areas to implement or amend policies, standards, procedures and/or processes to address regulatory requirements, and challenging the implementation plan as needed.
• Contribute to Global Financial Crime Non‑US Investigations team training plans, execute independent risk monitoring, testing, gap analysis and risk assessments.
• Support escalation of financial crimes related compliance and operational risks and issues to appropriate governance routines, management/board level committees.
• Assist in the identification, aggregation, reporting, and escalation of the remediation and thematic analysis of Non‑US Investigations‑owned issues and control enhancements related to financial crimes training programme.
• Assist in the review of internal and external procedures, including the development of remediation plans to strengthen controls and providing oversight to ensure they are addressed appropriately.

• Demonstrated business and functional experience in AML and fraud.
• Degree required:
  Bachelors or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience within a similar role within the financial services industry and/or government entity.
• Strong communication, presentation and report writing abilities, including ability to communicate with stakeholders globally.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Access.
• Confident working within global…