Financial Crime Expert

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

We are currently recruiting a Financial Crime Expert for our Supervision Teams in Financial Crime Market Interventions

About Us

Fighting financial crime is a key FCA public commitment. Financial Crime Market Interventions (Financial Crime MI) provides the dedicated specialist resource and expertise to help the FCA meet its financial crime responsibilities, as contained in the FCA’s wider objective on integrity and in its public financial crime commitment.

The department is comprised of three Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervisory Team, a Risk, Data & Strategy Team (RDS) and a Financial Crime Public Commitment Strategy & Delivery Team. Working together with others inside and outside the FCA, we deal with issues involving money laundering, financial sanctions, bribery and corruption, and fraud or dishonesty (the Financial Crime MI team does not cover market abuse).

What does this job involve?

Are you ready to develop your career and your financial crime skills by taking a leading role in the FCA Financial Crime work? Financial Crime MI is looking for a talented colleague to work with FCMI’s management team in delivering the department's strategic objectives.

What are the key responsibilities?
- Delivering our financial crime supervisory programmes to ensure we reduce and prevent financial crime in line with our Public Commitment as set out in the FCA’s three year strategy
- Designing, leading and implementing a variety of programmes including proactive work, multi-firm projects and reactive case-work
- Taking a leading role in dealing with tricky and complex financial crime supervision issues, dealing directly with senior management at regulated firms, as well as colleagues from across the FCA and partner agencies
- Working with and leading engagement with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Making a strong contribution to the department's overall management to deliver the department’s objectives
- Playing an important role in developing the FCA’s know-how and training on Financial Crime issues

What will I get from the role?
- An interesting and varied workload, with responsibility for leading the team in delivering its work and objectives
- The opportunity to lead potentially high profile or complex work and lead on financial crime systems and controls work programme for regulated firms across various financial sectors.
- The chance to lead engagement and work collaboratively with external agencies and internally across multiple areas such as firm supervision, Intelligence Department and Enforcement.
- The chance to join a friendly and collaborative environment committed to thinking creatively about achieving good financial crime compliance outcomes for the FCA.
- The opportunity to use your judgement to make decisions at pace, stand by them, and learn from experience
- A chance to develop our ways of working as we look to continually improve the way we supervise firms
- A chance to understand the changing ways in which firms and the industry operate, and the implications for how we carry out our work on financial crime

Minimum, Essential & Desirable skills

Minimum:

- Strong expertise in financial crime and/or UK Sanctions legal and regulatory regime gained through experience (for example a relevant supervision, compliance or sanctions related role within a regulatory body, law enforcement, financial services or consultancy firm)
- In depth knowledge of the FCA’s regulatory and wider legal framework, and a good understanding of the wider business, economic, and market environment and how this affects firms’ vulnerability to financial crime, including sanctions
- Experience of developing and delivering strategies to mitigate risks using a range of tools with highest operational excellence

Essential:

- Highly developed experience of undertaking assessments of firms’ AML and/or sanctions systems and controls
- The ability to be innovative and take a strategic approach to the FCA’s financial crime work
- The ability to lead (sometimes challenging) engagement and work effectively with a variety of stakeholders at all levels of seniority, both internal and external to Financial Crime Market Interventions and the FCA, provide effective challenge and look for mutually beneficial solutions to problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in report writing and communications to firms Qualitative and quantitative analytical experience including assimilating information quickly and clearly and drawing out key implications from a broad and varied range of information
- Team player who shares knowledge, and inspires others to develop skills and capabilities
- A good knowledge of the structure of the financial services industry - i.e., key products and services and key processes

Desirable:

- Strong understanding of the IT systems used as part of firms’ financial crime controls
- Experience of planning, prioritising a

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