Financial Crime Compliance Director - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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1 week ago

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Financial Crime Compliance Director - Investment Banking
London. Hybrid.

Are you someone who is passionate about providing Financial Crime advice? This role is a natural leader and has a keen interest in the evolving regulatory requirements across the Investment Banking space.

Reporting into the Deputy Head of Financial CrimeCompliance, you will be responsible for manging members of the team whilst also leading on various advisory workflows.

You will have oversight of the Financial Crime program and act as the primary point of contact for SMEs across the business.

Responsibilities:

Oversight of the branch financial crime program through multiple workflows and internal processes;
Ensuring that the business is fully compliant with the provisions of all relevant legislation;
Ensuring Senior Management is kept informed of updates and the general financial crime risk framework of the branch.
Team Management manage task allocation across advisory workflows, ensure adequate team coverage across relevant workflow/s; conduct hiring, appraisals & objectives for direct reports; oversee HRrelated issues and general management responsibilities fordirect reports;
Opinion Workflow Management monitor advisory workflows; provide regular and ad hoc management information and analysis on trends, challenges and achievements; contribute to and/or deliver management information to senior management and London committees;escalate to Senior Management where required;
Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Advisory provide opinions and assessments, from a financial crime perspective, on higher risk clients, credit requests, transactions and financial crime/sanctions alerts. This includes management of live payments;

Risk Assessments

Lead, complete and/or contribute to the annual enterprisewide risk assessments. Lead on any actions stemming from the assessment where required;

Committees

Present to and/or participate to London committees such as the Credit Committee and Financial Crime Committee;

Audits

Lead and/or assist in the preparation for and response to internal and external audits. Participate in audit interviews and implementation of postaudit action points. This may include translating lessons learned into procedures and issuing communicationto relevant stakeholders;

Projects

Lead and/or assist on some local and group projects across the multiple work streams. This may include representing FCC in working groups, leading local projects, working with various stakeholders (internal / external) and attending events;

Training

Lead and/or assist in the development and delivery of some local training initiatives;

Other

Ad hoc and new tasks as required within the FCC London team

Requirements:

Practical experience working within a financial crime function for a corporate/investment bank;
Practical 2LoD experience in advising on Financial Crime matters on corporate/investment banking clients and products (international trade including trade finance, corporate financing, transaction banking, capital markets);
Experience in assessing and opining on complex financial crime incl. sanctions matters/transactions, including the necessity to escalate, when appropriate;
Experience in working effectively with multiple key stakeholders to tight deadlines.
Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail;
Strong decision making skills, including the ability to draw conclusions on complex matters and recognise the need for escalation, when appropriate;
Resilience and ability to work under pressure;
Flexibility and adaptability to change;
Ability to work independently, with mínimal supervision and act on own initiative to identify tasks to be undertaken and risks to be managed;
Ability to share responsibilities, skills and experience with other team members; great team player;
Clear and concise verbal and written communication.
Good working knowledge of UK, EU, US Sanctions regimes
Good understanding of investment banking products/services, including trade finance, international trade, finance and capital markets products;
Experience managing staff (also in an informal setting).
Experience working with money laundering / payments filtering / customer screening software;
Produced and delivered financial crime training to various stakeholders;