Head of Financial Crime
2 days ago
Kind Consultancy is working with a well-established and successful retail-focussed Financial Services organisation which is now seeking a Head of Financial Crime to join them on a permanent basis. This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days in-office per week,and those office days can be based in their Birmingham, London or Manchester offices.
The Head of Financial Crime will focus on developing and executing a strategic Compliance roadmap to deliver a new value proposition to the organisation's client base and internal stakeholders, with key responsibilities including:
- Leading first line of defence teams covering retail savings, residential lending, business savings and client management
- Reconciling anti-money laundering checks, KYC/KYB processes, Politically Exposed Persons and Sanctions Screening, supplier procurement and management, new client onboarding and development of the Financial Crime Control framework, whilst optimising processes,people and technology
- Overall accountability for Financial Crime service delivery to contractual and regulatory expectations
- Overseeing collation and distribution of meaningful performance MI
- Directing, motivating and developing the Financial Crime management team
- Facilitating engagement and motivation with key internal and external stakeholders and teams to ensure service delivery expectations and strategic objectives are being met consistently Overseeing resourcing, salary budgets and capacity planning
- Ensuring procedures, policies and documentation are up to date and compliant with all internal, external and regulatory requirements
- Maintaining awareness of the current and emerging regulatory developments applicable to areas of responsibility, leading planning and implementation of necessary changes
- Has previously worked in a senior Financial Crime prevention role
- Has experience of budget ownership, leading, supporting and motivating colleagues at managerial level
- Is able to effectively lead multiple teams and departments across multiple sites
- Has well-developed people management and performance management skills
- Is a clear, confident and concise communicator in both writing and speech
- Has experience of UK Client vetting and review practices, including in-depth knowledge of UK AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-fraud regimes across retail banking and lending
- Is familiar with writing papers and presenting them to senior audiences
- Has a track record of driving ongoing efficiency and improvement, being able to provide input and take accountability for setting Strategies and Policies
- Has good knowledge of operational management and people management processes and in-depth knowledge of processes, tools and systems used for PEPs and sanctions screening, customer on-boarding due diligence checks and transaction monitoring
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Head of Financial Crime Assurance
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