Head of Financial Crime Due Diligence - London, United Kingdom - UK Export Finance

UK Export Finance
UK Export Finance
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £73,000
  • The starting salary for the post is advertised
    Job grade:
  • SCS Pay Band 1
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • UKEF
  • Legal and Compliance Division
  • The role is within the Financial Crime Due Diligence Division and sits within UKEF's Legal and Compliance Group (LCG).
The Division's primary purpose is to assist the Department in identifying, understanding, managing, and mitigating risks related to fina
Type of role:


  • Governance
  • Legal Services
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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About the job


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Location

  • 1 Horse Guards Road, Westminster, London, SW1A 2HQAbout the job

Job summary:


  • UKEF
mitigates the risk of breaching its Financial Crime Risk Appetite Statement ("
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RAS") (which sets out UKEF's appetite tolerance etc for various areas of Financial Crime) through the provision of high-quality analysis of risks and issues, and timely and comprehensive advice to other UKEF Divisions on transactions, to avoid the Department supporting transactions which are unlawful or contrary to government policy, and to mitigate and manage the risk of financial loss and/or reputational damage associated with supporting transactions that may have been obtained corruptly or involve financial crime


Job description:


The purpose of this exciting and challenging role is to lead a small team who provide support to ensure that the organisation is aware of who it is doing business with as well as acting within its risk appetite.

Financial Crime Due Diligence undertakes a key role in evaluating counterparties in the transactions through which the Department supports its customers.


The Head of Financial Crime Due Diligence is responsible for counterparty transactional due diligence matters and supporting the Department in managing financial crime due diligence and compliance risk the post holder will also be a member of the Department's Senior Leadership Team.

Further details of the post are provided in the attached Information Pack


Person specification:


Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Provide leadership to a team of 10 and directly line manage team managers.
  • Responsible for the effective management of the financial crime due diligence budget (circa £350,000) and ensuring that value is received for expenditure upon financial crime due diligence services.
  • Directly, or through the team, provide financial crime due diligence advice in support of the case decision making process. This will include ensuring financial crime due diligence standards are upheld and that the Department is acting within its risk appetites and complying with its policy, legal and cross government mandated obligations relevant to financial crime due diligence.
  • To personally provide financial crime due diligence support on large or sensitive cases as required.
  • Financial Crime Due Diligence may also be required to procure consultancy advice on matters ancillary to the primary function.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Leadership
  • Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:


Benefits:


  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
    Experience as detailed in your CV and Statement of Suitability
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Technical - your business acumen and technical background to be successful in the post as detailed in your CV and Statement of Suitability

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to complete the following selection and assessment stages:

  • Completion of a Wave and Hogan psychometric interview. This process will be overseen by a qualified occupational psychologist and will last approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour, feedback, by way of a report, will be provided to the interview panel.
  • A formal panel interview
  • This will consist of:
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Leadership
  • Communicating & Influencing


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.- This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years.

An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes.

The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of
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