Financial Crime & Fraud Lead
| Posting date: | 28 March 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 April 2025 |
| Location: | London, WC2R 0QS |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00250497 |
Summary
Join us as a Financial Crime & Fraud Lead
- It’s all of our colleagues’ job to detect and prevent financial crime, which’s why you’ll be overseeing the development and implementation of risk and control mechanisms for our bank
- Day-to-day, you’ll be helping us with our responsibilities of overseeing and challenging the effective management of risks and controls within agreed risk appetites
- Every day, you’ll have the chance to make a difference as you support us in reducing financial crime and, in turn, know that your work is playing an integral part in protecting our bank
What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving team deliverables that’ll make sure that our business strategy complies with financial crime policies, external laws and regulations to prevent money laundering, breaches of sanctions, terrorism financing, bribery and corruption within the franchises.
To do this, you’ll deliver operational objectives and articulate these in the team plan, while making sure that they’re delivered and implemented in a timely manner. You’ll also coach and mentor other team members that are less experienced.
Your top priorities will include:
- Building relationships within our business and delivering advice on transactions, customers or situations that involve financial crime matters
- Making sure that our business addresses financial crime risk concerns within the management of the customer, geographic and product portfolio lifecycle before remediating known risks
- Advocating for the simplification of processes and procedures and establishing and documenting operating procedures, including relevant controls to meet policy requirements
The skills you’ll need
To be successful in this role, you’ll need a deep understanding of the financial services industry, risk management principles and regulatory frameworks. Additionally, you’ll need technical expertise and knowledge of relevant political and legislative developments across the financial industry.
Alongside this, you’ll need to be educated to degree level, preferably in a related subject field, and have a relevant technical qualification in AML, ABC, Fraud or STF compliance. You’ll also need anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption or sanctions compliance technical knowledge.
Furthermore, you’ll need:
- Proven experience of fraud risk management
- The ability to influence business representatives and deliver oversight activities as indelible evidence to regulators that conduct risks have been identified within target processes
- Experience of diverse and multi-jurisdictional functions and knowledge of the regulatory environment and divisional frameworks and methodologies
- Working knowledge of broader risk disciplines and the ability to challenge how we do things to continually improve the customer experience and lead fundamental change
- An understanding of how to apply your expertise to influence customers, working in partnership with stakeholders to build trust and improve our reputation
- Good networking and collaboration skills and experience of developing high-performing teams through coaching and mentoring