Our Economic Crime team have a new, exciting opportunity to join them as an AML and Sanctions Investigations Lead for 12 months.
Reporting to the Senior Manager - Investigations, the purpose of this role is to drive capability and process optimisation in an operational environment across AML and Sanctions Investigations for the Society, whilst ensuring robust governance practices throughout. This will include implementing best practices across AML and Sanctions Investigations, upskilling of staff, and ensuring risks are investigated, managed and, where applicable, reported in a timely manner, whilst continuing to ensure robust documentation and rationalisation.
Drawing on extensive Investigative experience across AML and Sanctions within financial services, this role is key in ensuring a robust feedback loop across control owners, wider business stakeholders and Investigations. A keen eye for detail will allow for continual process optimisation whilst ensuring appropriate procedural documentation and governance along the way. This will ensure high-quality investigations, codes of conduct and standards of good practice, whilst maintaining obligations for reporting under law, regulation and guidance.
About you
For this role you’ll be able to demonstrate confidence in process optimisation, with experience in driving best practice and investigative efficiency and effectiveness within Economic Crime Investigations. You’ll have a deep understanding of the Sanctions and AML regulatory regime and know how to apply this effectively to investigations. Being self-aware and emotionally intelligent, you understand your impact on others and take time to understand all colleagues and help them to operate at their best. To be successful in this role it’s essential you have: Current extensive AML and Sanctions Investigations expertise from a banking financial services background. Skilled in the design and implementation of operational processes to ensure effective AML and Sanctions frameworks. Experience of process optimisation and procedural uplift. Understanding of the UK regulatory regime across AML and Sanctions and how this applies to Investigations. Evidence of working with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to persuade and influence upwards. An ability to interpret complex issues, good communication and strong decision-making skills. Integrity is a must: you’ll be reviewing activities from a wide cross-section of departments and will need to show discretion and maintain total confidentiality at all times. Desirable experience needed will be: Coaching or supporting as well as developing others. Change and project management and process improvement experience. A recognised AML qualification would be beneficial. About us
As a mutual, we’ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. Now one of the largest Building Societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing. We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation, but also of personality and the way we think. By being yourself, you’ll make us stronger. You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that’s been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ by our teams. Flexibility and why it matters We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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For this role you’ll be able to demonstrate confidence in process optimisation, with experience in driving best practice and investigative efficiency and effectiveness within Economic Crime Investigations. You’ll have a deep understanding of the Sanctions and AML regulatory regime and know how to apply this effectively to investigations. Being self-aware and emotionally intelligent, you understand your impact on others and take time to understand all colleagues and help them to operate at their best. To be successful in this role it’s essential you have: Current extensive AML and Sanctions Investigations expertise from a banking financial services background. Skilled in the design and implementation of operational processes to ensure effective AML and Sanctions frameworks. Experience of process optimisation and procedural uplift. Understanding of the UK regulatory regime across AML and Sanctions and how this applies to Investigations. Evidence of working with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to persuade and influence upwards. An ability to interpret complex issues, good communication and strong decision-making skills. Integrity is a must: you’ll be reviewing activities from a wide cross-section of departments and will need to show discretion and maintain total confidentiality at all times. Desirable experience needed will be: Coaching or supporting as well as developing others. Change and project management and process improvement experience. A recognised AML qualification would be beneficial. About us
As a mutual, we’ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. Now one of the largest Building Societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing. We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation, but also of personality and the way we think. By being yourself, you’ll make us stronger. You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that’s been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ by our teams. Flexibility and why it matters We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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