Head of Advisory and Financial Intelligence Unit

Head of Advisory and Financial Intelligence Unit | SLB | S4 |Triton Square

London, United Kingdom

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

**Join our community.**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Advisory, Sanctions and Financial Intelligence Unit, to join the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Function at Banco Santander, London Branch (SLB)

As the Head of Advisory and FIU your role forms part of the broader Financial Crime Compliance Function within SLB and its purpose, is to identify, manage and monitor financial crime risks associated with SLB’s customers and third-party relationships to ensure compliance with financial crime laws and regulations.

**The difference you’ll make.**
- Providing professional and timely advice to the business and support functions
- Acting as the central point of contact in the second line of defence for referrals relating to complex and/or higher risk clients, regarding all financial crime related queries
- Responding to Assurance, Internal/External Audit and regulatory findings, overseeing corrective action as appropriate.
- Providing proactive, effective, and holistic intelligence capability, to source, identify, develop, evaluate and disseminate intelligence, tactically and strategically.
- Overseeing the FIU, including enhancing the strategy and threat mitigation programme as appropriate.
- Supporting interface with UK Law Enforcement and other relevant industry and regulatory initiatives.

**What you’ll bring.**
- Experience working in large, international financial institution
- Strong FCC Subject Matter Expertise with experience of internal or external investigations, transaction monitoring scenarios and threshold development/calibration.

**It would also be nice for you to have.**
- Experience working with international sanctions
- Knowledge of and experience working with a Corporate and Institutional banking products and client base.
- Wide and international financial crime compliance experience with very sound knowledge of relevant laws and regulations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to make decisions and influence others at all levels.

**What else you need to know.**

This role will be on a 14-month Secondment/FTC based in Triton Square London.

**How we’ll reward you.**

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs. For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration.
- Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- Company funded individual private medical insurance
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
- Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
- Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans

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**A bit more about Santander**

At Santander we’re driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

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