Head of Sanctions and Economic Crime Prevention

1 month ago

Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Lloyds Banking Group Full time

About this opportunity

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our Sanctions and Economic Crime Prevention team. As the Head of Sanctions, you'll be responsible for developing and implementing effective Sanctions risk management strategies across the Group.

You'll work closely with senior colleagues to provide insightful and pragmatic advice, and constructive challenge to the business. Your extensive understanding of the Group's Sanction Risk profile will enable you to provide robust oversight and challenge to the business, ensuring that ECP Sanctions Risks are fully understood, mitigated and managed.

As a trusted partner to the business, you'll represent the Group at Sanctions-related industry fora, providing expert advice and insight to ensure that the Group's strategic aims are supported in the direction of travel.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the formulation, delivery and maintenance of the Sanctions elements of the Group Economic Crime Prevention Policy and associated standards;
  • Acting as a trusted partner to senior colleagues across all 3LOD, providing insightful and pragmatic advice, and constructive challenge to the business;
  • Representing the Group, and the Group Director of ECP by working collaboratively with a variety of external partners to drive more effective ways of preventing, detecting, and mitigating Sanctions risk;
  • Providing strategic direction and leadership in the area of Sanction by having an excellent understanding of the current sanctions threat environment;
  • Providing robust oversight and challenge to the business, ensuring that ECP Sanctions Risks are fully understood, mitigated and managed;
  • Representing the Group at Sanctions-related industry fora, providing expert advice and insight to ensure that the Group's strategic aims are supported in the direction of travel;
  • Leading teams, coaching, and nurturing talent;

What you'll need:

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • Proven leadership qualities and experience in building and inspiring a diverse, engaged and capable Sanctions risk team;
  • A solid understanding of what an effective Sanctions risk management framework looks like and how it should operate;
  • A strong technical background in relation to the legal and regulatory obligations for managing the risks associated with Sanctions and Sanctions evasion;
  • A deep understanding of Sanctions screening tools;
  • Be able to translate often complex regulatory requirements into practical, risk-based guidance in a commercially sensitive way;
  • Be comfortable in challenging the business to support the enhancement of their sanctions risk control environment;

About working for us

We're a diverse group of people, who come from many different backgrounds. Whilst we celebrate these differences, we share a common vision to offer new insight, support and challenge to senior management. We encourage applications from people who require flexible working patterns, and already support a number of these arrangements within the team. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:


A generous pension contribution of up to 15%


An annual performance-related bonus


Share schemes including free shares


Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping


30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top


A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

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