Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager

Join us as a Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager where you will help shape the future of banking by overseeing financial crime risk and control across all BUK Retail products, including designing and managing financial crime processes and developing robust controls in partnership with operational service providers. Key responsibilities include monitoring and enhancing key performance indicators, driving continuous improvement of controls, and placing a considerable emphasis on automation to strengthen efficiency and risk mitigation.

To be successful as a Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager, you should have:

• Proven experience of designing and operating
  Financial Crime Risk Management frameworks – Experience of leading the development of key concepts such as Financial Crime risk rating, policy governance and execution, with the ability to assess financial crime threats and recommend and execute appropriate control responses in a Retail Banking context.

• Excellent analytical and written communication skill
  s - Ability to interpret regulatory and policy requirements and translate them into clear, actionable strategy and frameworks documentation for Retail Banking.

• Stakeholder management and influencing skills - Comfortable engaging (and working collaboratively) with senior stakeholders across 1
  
  LOD and 2
  
  LOD, with the ability to challenge constructively and drive consensus.

• Experience in drafting or owning Financial Crime policies or standards - Especially beneficial if you have worked on artefacts and owned policy-related/strategy/procedure artefacts.

• Knowledge of regulatory expectations and Regulatory reviews - Familiarity with FCA and Policy expectations and experience contributing to regulatory responses or remediation programmes.

• Data analysis and insight generation
  -Ability to interpret and present financial and customer data to identify trends, assess risk exposure to support decision-making.
• Leadership experience – Demonstrated ability to lead teams effectively, influence stakeholders, and drive strategic outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Financial Crime Qualification – A recognised certification or training in financial crime prevention, compliance, or risk management.

• Change and Transformation Experience – Proven experience in leading or supporting organisational change and transformation.

• AGILE or Project Management Qualification – A formal qualification in Agile methodologies or project management frameworks such as PRINCE2 or PMP.

• Experience Managing Mortgage Financial Crime Risk – Expertise in identifying, mitigating, and managing financial crime risks specific to mortgage products.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role can be based in London, Northampton, Manchester, or Glasgow.

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and…