Financial Crime Monitoring and Assurance

A global bank as a new role within its financial crime team, to be based in London. Working with a talented and passionate team, you will help take the lead on all financial crime monitoring and assurance.

In this role you will:

• Development, implementation, maintenance and execution of Second Line of Defense controls in line with the Group and local requirements
• Testing application and effectiveness of financial crime policies and procedures (by undertaking compliance assurance testing as defined in the control and monitoring plan) across CIB business and functions
• Monitoring and reporting on compliance with laws, regulations and standards. This work includes undertaking oversight testing and assurance reviews of a number of processes both in the UK and in the "near-shored" centre.
• Investigating and reporting on any suspected breaches of such laws, regulations and standards

To do this role you must:

• 5+ years financial crime monitoring or assurance experience
• Proven experience working in a financial crime environment, preferably in an investment banking context performing monitoring controls and reviews
• Experience with preparing management information on financial crime such as money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) risk (or related data) to inform senior management decision making (i.e. to mitigate AML risk / escalate accordingly).
• Good working knowledge of the FCA's Financial Crime Guide and of the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group ('JMLSG') Guidance.
• Good working knowledge of the UK AML, CTF and ABC regimes and an understanding of other regimes.

To learn more about these roles, please apply today or call Jess on 020 3862 2750