Join us as a Financial Crime Operations Lead

• We’re looking for an experienced leader to manage the delivery of financial checks for existing and new clients
• You’ll be collaborating with stakeholders to identify ways to improve the operational efficiency of onboarding, lifecycle processes and client exits, at a legal entity level
• We’ll give you the opportunity to progress your career and hone your knowledge with externally recognised qualifications

What you'll do

As a Financial Crime Operations Lead, you’ll be supporting our Tyl by NatWest and Payit customer facing brands monitoring financial crime and reputational risk issues through to conclusion. We’ll look to you to establish an effective gap analysis, monitoring, controlling and reporting key activities for financial crime initiatives and projects to efficiently coordinate actions, responses and challenges. And, you’ll be working in partnership with key stakeholders to make sure they fully understand the financial check strategy and agenda, building a climate of continuous improvement.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Making sure that the team understands the concept of customer life cycle management and their role in delivering those strategies
• Acting as secretariat for risk forums, preparing meeting inputs and outputs, and reporting forum outcomes to the relevant risk committee
• Attending regulatory project working groups to make decisions on behalf of the bank, challenging any decisions which may not be in the best interests of your business area and its customers
• Producing regular risk appetite statements and any other relevant MI that’s needed in support of the risk appetite
• Making sure that all financial crime related projects and initiatives are undertaken in line with the bank’s policies and FCA requirements

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a detailed understanding of financial crime regulations and legislation relating to AML, CTF, activity-based costing and sanctions. You’ll have the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively on complex matters, alongside the interpersonal skills to work with, influence and support senior management on critical projects. Leadership skills and experience would be advantageous.

You’ll also need:

• A broad understanding of regulated products and the financial industry, along with knowledge of merchant acquiring and payment products is preferred
• Project management or project delivery experience with excellent time management skills
• A creative and innovative mindset, with great a customer focus and an eye for detail
• The ability to work independently and the enthusiasm to keep learning and honing your expertise
• Strong negotiation and relationship management skills