Senior Manager in Financial Crime Business Optimisation

• Lead and develop a team of subject matter experts, setting clear priorities and allocating resources according to risk.
• Represent Financial Crime across business-led change, defining requirements, assessing impacts and translating policy, regulation and risk appetite into practical solutions.
• Lead Financial Crime change across business and platform roadmaps, resolving barriers and influencing priorities and delivery.
• Provide expert advice and constructive challenge on complex Financial Crime, risk, control and change matters, balancing regulatory requirements with customer and business outcomes.
• Play a leading role in Financial Crime change governance, helping ensure material change is visible, prioritised appropriately and brought up where leadership intervention is needed.
• Drive improvements that simplify processes, strengthen controls and improve operational efficiency and resilience.
• Use data and insight to inform prioritisation, demonstrate the impact of change and support better decision-making.
• Work across the Economic Crime Prevention ecosystem to support delivery of policy, regulatory and audit actions, while supporting the controlled adoption of technology and AI.

• In-depth understanding of financial crime risk and controls, capable of interpreting policy and regulatory requirements and converting them into clear, practical change requirements.
• Experience managing complex business or regulatory change, from initial impact assessment and requirements definition through governance, delivery and embedding.
• Strong risk judgement and critical-thinking skills, with the confidence to make or recommend decisions where the position is complex, uncertain or contested.
• Experience of building effective relationships across business, operations, risk, change and technology teams.
• Ability to manage a broad portfolio, prioritise resources according to risk and value, and maintain delivery focus across competing demands.
• Ability to transform complex information into clear recommendations, governance updates, and executive-level narratives.
• Demonstrated experience in leading people, including defining goals, mentoring peers, developing skills, and fostering an inclusive, responsible team environment.
• Confidence in working with data and management information to spot patterns, support decisions, and clarify delivery, operational, and control impacts.
• A customer-focused approach that considers customer outcomes alongside risk, control, regulatory and operational requirements.

• Experience of agile delivery methods or change-management tools.
• Experience of developing or applying AI-enabled or emerging technology within a controlled business environment.
• Experience of designing or improving change governance, portfolio reporting or impact-assessment processes.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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