Head of Financial Crime Operations

A large global institution has a newly created role as their global head of financial crime operations. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing company into a strategic and senior hire. Culturally this place is full of people who love their job, but also love their life - great work life balance and progression.

Key responsibilities:

• Large global function of up to 100 people (2 direct reports) which inlude all KYC and Transaction monitoring and sanctions screening globally.
• Leading, motivating and developing the Financial Crime Operations team to make sure all colleagues are achieving their full potential
• Creating and updating processes and procedures to align to Financial Crime policies and regulatory requirements
• You will lead a global transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and KYC function
• You will lead the Financial Crime Operations team in looking after financial crime and sanctions risks
• The firm is going through a period of change so being able to drive change and best practice

While many people will have relevent experience, this is quite a prescriptive hire in teams of experience, so please ensure you have the below:

• Outstanding understanding of control infrastructures of firms in the financial services sector
• Be a specialist in trade finance risk and have proven experience in this
• 5+ years leading teams of 30+ staff with a global or EMEA focussed remit
• Proven experiernce leading, creating or growing a FCC ops function
• Not be from a pure KYC background

To learn more about this role, please apply today or email Jess with your CV attached to jessica.hodson@investigo.co.uk