Financial Crime Team Leader

About the role:

As the Financial Crime Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in managing Financial Crime Operations to support and protect our customers. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that we meet our legal and regulatory obligations regarding PEPs and Sanctions screening. Additionally, you will drive improvements as the financial crime landscape changes and when you identify efficiency opportunities.

Your team’s objectives:

The Fraud and Financial Crime Team aims to build and enhance an effective framework to combat fraud and financial crime while balancing the needs of our customers. Risk mitigation is a key objective, and we also focus on data analysis and automation to deliver solutions efficiently and effectively.

The team works closely with all areas of the business to support initiatives that enable secure growth for the bank, providing advice and solutions.

How you’ll impact those objectives:

In this role, you will have a significant impact on the development of the Fraud and Financial Crime function across the firm. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring the day-to-day performance and service position of the screening team, addressing identified challenges.

• Overseeing the financial crime screening team for PEPs and Sanctions cases, providing direction and assisting with complex cases.

• Equipping the Financial Crime operations teams with effective training and guidance.

• Leading your team to conduct accurate and efficient investigations.

• Supporting senior management in developing, communicating, and implementing operational changes, including multiple projects simultaneously.

• Building and maintaining a high-performance, agile, and empathetic management culture consistent with our values.

• Managing the personal and professional development of your direct reports.

• Contributing to a strong control environment by minimising breaches and risk events, and resolving operational incidents.

• Providing timely and useful operational management information to senior management.

• Working closely and collaboratively with control owners responsible for financial crime controls that drive operational demand, including relevant product teams.
  

Necessary deliverables within the role:

• Working with the head of department and key stakeholders to implement an effective financial crime screening operation.

• Collaborating with analytics to identify internal and external data sources that provide insights for identifying high-risk/criminal activity and integrating them into our overall data insight and profiling.

• Collaborating with senior product stakeholders to ensure a cohesive approach from application to the existing customer life cycle.

• Managing Financial Crime processes to optimise the operations function.

• Experience in identifying opportunities for process improvements and implementing solutions, including the use of automation and AI technologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in financial crime prevention.

• Demonstrated ability to leverage data, machine learning, and AI to develop and optimize strategies for fraud and financial crime detection and prevention.
  

The interview process:

• A quick introduction call with someone from the Talent Team.

• An interview with the Head of Fraud & FinCrime (remotely via video).

• Final round interviews with the Director of Enterprise Risk and the Director of Operations Strategy (in office).