Controls Senior Manager, Financial Crime

Join us as a Controls Senior Manager, Financial Crime

• If you have a risk management or regulatory background and are looking for a new challenge, this could be the ideal role for you
• You’ll be responsible for running financial crime reporting across multiple committees and forums
• You’ll partner with management in the Financial Crime Hub, the business and Risk function to identify, assess and manage the risks within the agreed risk appetite, using our risk framework to inspire a team of business and customer control partners, and make sure that the team objectives are achieved
• You'll demonstrate leadership skills in a fast-paced risk and controls environment
• You’ll work from home most of the time, but you’ll also spend at least one day a month working from our London office

What you'll do

You’ll have responsibility for supporting management in their identification and assessment of material risks, and in determining their position relative to agreed appetites. Working with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll drive forward the development and delivery of remedial action plans where identified risks are considered out of appetite.

You’ll have the opportunity to make a vital contribution to drive a generative culture of risk awareness and recommend solutions to operations’ risk issues within the businesses. You’ll strengthen the level of ownership within the business, identifying and calling out areas of weakness and sharing best practices.

We’ll look to you to drive a robust risk governance framework in line with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, as well as delivering relevant risk activity to build credible and realistic plans to move and sustain a stable and effective control environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Interpreting a wide range of risk and control MI and produce accurate analysis to aid senior management committee meetings and discussions
• Initiating and supporting thematic exploration, deep dives, read across and oversight of the risk profile linked to control and conduct failures and operational events
• Supporting management in facilitating regular stakeholder meetings and key forums and prepare and issue supporting paperwork
• Escalating emerging risks in a timely manner, making sure actions are quickly defined and owned
• Driving a strong risk awareness across the business, contributing to the prioritisation, design and implementation of the operational risk principles into the business
• Managing the interface between the business, internal audit, second line of defence and other critical functions, as well as the wider risk and controls teams
• Developing collaborative relationships with the business them to ensure risk reporting is accurate and timely
• Ensuring that all aspects of risk management are delivered within the requirements of the policy framework and in accordance with the conduct risk requirements

The skills you'll need

As well as a strong understanding of our operating processes, you’ll need general and project management skills involving complex people, process and technology issues, along with a proven understanding and practical application of risk management principles. You’ll also need well developed knowledge of our businesses and associated products, processes and technologies.

On top of this, you’ll bring:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions to a variety of audiences
• Significant experience leading the development of  risk reporting including writing senior committee reports and briefing notes
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills
• Excellent working knowledge of the Non-Financial Risk framework and its application
• A clear track record of delivery against tight timescales
• Strong negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to view the impact of issues from a wider or macro perspective
• The ability to think creatively when resolving problems and identify alternatives where established procedures may not exist

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

17/02/2025

Ways of Working:Remote First