Financial Crime Risk Oversight Lead, Wealth - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - NatWest Group

NatWest Group

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Oversight Lead

You'll be leading a team in Wealth and Retail to make sure our business strategy is compliant with financial crime policies, external laws and regulations
Daytoday, you'll act as the primary interface with the first line of defence, NatWest Holding's Director of Risk and teams in relation to all financial crime risks
This is your opportunity to prevent financial crime within our Wealth and Retail franchises to protect the people and businesses we serve so they can thrive

What you'll do:

As a Financial Crime Risk Oversight Lead, you'll provide holistic financial crime risk and policy advice, oversight and constructive challenges to demonstrate adherence to financial crime policies and the effectiveness of our systems and controls.

Additionally, you'll:

Oversee the development and implementation of risk and control mechanisms
Help our business to address financial crime risk concerns within the management of customer, geographic and product portfolio lifecycles
Make sure that a stable and effective governance structure is in place with the appropriate forums and escalation routes
Oversee the adherence to our bank's global financial crime standards while managing risk and controls within agreed risk appetites
Direct and advise the team to maintain the effective oversight of financial crime risk frameworks, systems and controls

The skills you'll need:

We're looking for someone with experience of providing financial crime oversight, along with a robust and broad understanding of risk management principles and regulatory frameworks.

You'll need technical expertise of relevant political and legislative developments across the financial industry.

It's crucial that you have the leadership skills to empower teams to actively challenge how we do things to continually improve the customer experience.

If you also have a technical qualification in financial crime, this would be advantageous.

In addition, you'll need:

The ability to deliver oversight activity which can serve as indelible evidence to regulators that conduct risks have been identified within target processes
Working knowledge of broader risk disciplines
Excellent stakeholder management and knowledge of how to build trust and demonstrate value
The ability to enable the safe delivery of change at pace and an understanding of the regulatory landscape and requirements