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Financial Crime Officer (VP)

  • Salary: £90,000 pa + benefits + bonus per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted about 17 hours ago

  • Sector: Financial Crime & Fraud
  • Contact: Pritesh Chudasama
  • Contact Email: pchudasama@merje.com
  • Contact Phone: 0203 637 1607
  • Expiry Date: 14 November 2024
  • Job Ref: 12122
  • Flexible Working: Partially Remote

Financial Crime Officer (VP) 

I'm looking for an experienced financial crime officer to join a financial crime team that advises the business on complex client cases across all financial crime disciplines and jurisdictions.

This financial crime role is with an exceptional corporate bank that specialises in clients that most large banks need help understanding. Think of clients like Crypto, MSBs, drinks firms that create CBD products and ship them globally, a tech startup that creates cutting-edge drones, and large listed fintech. But are these drones being used as weapons? Can the CBD products that the drinks firm produces cause reputational damage to the bank? What sanctions exposure do these companies have? Are the client's AB&C and Fraud policies aligned with the bank's risk appetite? This is what you will work on, and take a risk-based decision if you can work with this client, why, and if not, how, what solutions are there, etc.

You will lead a small financial crime team responsible for this role to take all your findings and analysis and write up a detailed report, which can be anywhere between 5-10- pages long. This report will be shared with senior stakeholders and presented at high-risk committee meetings. The ability to write reports and work with various serious stakeholders is an important skill you should have. To reiterate - you must be an excellent written communicator with prior experience creating financial crime reports in document format or email.

You will be required to lead a team, delegate work, act as a point of escalation, work with various senior stakeholders, work with the business, and be excellent at case management.

You will work with clients over the years and support them along their journey to ensure they are aligned with the bank's financial crime risk appetite as they expand their business and move into new products & services with further financial crime risks.

The bank has a nurturing culture, a meritocratic environment, and clear career plans.

 

Requirements for the role:

  • Good academics or proven professional experience.
  • A genuine interest in financial crime and good knowledge of financial crime regulations covering AML, Sanctions, AB&C and Fraud.
  • An understanding of start-up/SME corporate clients (not just large FIs).
  • Currently working in financial crime using a risk-based approach.
  • We are open to people coming from a financial crime think tank or research firm

 

If you are interested in this financial crime opportunity and would like to apply, please submit your CV. Alternatively, call Pritesh Chudasama on 0203 637 1607 for a confidential conversation.

Please note that feedback should not be received within 28 days due to the large volume of applications. Unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful. However, I may be in touch with similar relevant opportunities.