Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Job description:

Role Title: Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Location: London

Contract: FTC – 12 Months

Working pattern: Hybrid

About the Role

This role is to support the Head of Financial Crime in operating, maintaining and enhancing a proportionate, risk-based anti-financial crime framework across Rathbones’ Group. This role provides expert second line advice and oversight across AML/CTF, sanctions, bribery and corruption, tax evasion, regulatory change and management information.

 

What you’ll be responsible for

• Support the Head of Financial Crime in maintaining an effective enterprise-wide financial crime framework, including policies, standards, procedures, control documentation and operating guidance.
• Interpret regulatory and industry guidance into practical financial crime controls, ensuring requirements are proportionate to client, product, jurisdiction, delivery channel and transaction risk.
• Support the production and maintenance of the business-wide financial crime risk assessment, including action tracking and evidence of closure.
• Prepare clear and insightful MI for the MLRO, senior management, committees and boards.
• Lead or support investigations into internal suspicious activity reports, documenting decisions, rationale and recommendations for MLRO review.
• Identify, assess and support implementation of changes arising from legislation, FCA expectations, JMLSG guidance, OFSI guidance, enforcement cases, industry intelligence and internal risk events.
• Lead drafting or enhancement of financial crime policies and procedures, ensuring they are clear, operationally usable and aligned to the firm’s risk appetite.
• Maintain a strong audit trail for policy decisions, control design, risk acceptance and management action plans.

Lead on the design and delivery of financial crime training, including changes to process, controls etc.

Provide targeted briefings on emerging typologies and regulatory change, with practical examples relevant to the Group.

Act as a trusted adviser to the business while maintaining appropriate second line challenge and independence.

Manage and develop Financial Crime Team members, setting clear expectations, reviewing work quality and supporting technical capability development.

Review and maintain the methodologies and underlying country and industry risk lists.

Promote consistent decision making, high-quality records, knowledge sharing and a collaborative “One Rathbones” approach.

 

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply

• Significant financial crime experience in wealth management, asset management, financial planning, banking or other related regulated environments.
• Strong working knowledge of UK financial crime legislation, FCA expectations, JMLSG guidance and risk-based controls.
• Advanced MI reporting capabilities with the ability to analyse datasets and identify emerging trends.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills to analyse complex information and identify the key issue/action to drive resolutions
• Strong experience in managing senior stakeholder interaction, presenting clear and concise risks alongside reasonable and solution focused recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to plan and prioritise work tasks in a very fast paced environment under own initiative.
• Demonstrable experience in advising key stakeholders on anti-money laundering, sanctions, terrorist financing and other financial crime related matters.
• Preferred Level 6 industry recognised AML or financial crime qualification (ICA/CISI).