Financial Crime Officer (6 month FTC)

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At Investec, we do things differently. We're a leading international bank and wealth manager built on a culture of curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit and human connection. Ideas are heard, ambition is celebrated, and impact is encouraged. As part of a team that challenges convention and strives for outperformance, you'll help shape bold solutions for clients who expect something more than the ordinary.

Team description

The Financial Crime team forms part of the Firm's second line of defence and oversees all aspects of financial crime management, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Sanctions and Fraud for Investec Bank plc (IBP).

The team's primary responsibilities include:

• Establishing a robust framework to prevent, detect, investigate, and report financial crime risks.
• Ensuring comprehensive financial crime policies and procedures are maintained and embedded within the business, in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the business in implementing effective systems and controls to manage financial crime risks.
• Ensuring all relevant staff receive appropriate financial crime training.
• Providing financial crime-related management information to Senior Management, highlighting relevant risks as needed.
• Positioning the team as a trusted control function dedicated to protecting the Firm from financial crime risks.

Description of role and key responsibilities

To be part of a team that ensures IBP's Financial Crime responsibilities comply with all relevant regulations. In particular to assist in:

Policy

• Develop, maintain and implement effective fraud risk management policies and standards covering internal and external fraud, APP fraud, cyber-enabled fraud, mule accounts, and identity theft.

Risk Assessments

• Maintaining effective risk assessments of AML, CTF, ABC, Sanctions, Tax Evasion, and Fraud in conjunction with the business and Operational Risk to enable a risk-based approach to the management of Financial Crime risk within IBP and its subsidiaries.
• Where appropriate. attend relevant fora/committees to enable timely identification of potential risks to the Financial Crime system of controls.
• Maintain the Fraud Risk Assessment framework, ensuring all key fraud typologies and scenarios are considered across business lines, client lifecycle stages, and digital channels.
• Coordinate Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) for fraud, ensuring risks are accurately identified, controls documented, and effectiveness tested.
• Partner with business units to embed ownership of fraud risks and controls within the first line of defence.
• Ensure assessment outputs are used to inform risk appetite, policy development, monitoring, and resource prioritisation.
• Present findings and control gaps to senior committees, recommending enhancements and tracking remediation actions.

Training

• Develop and deliver effective training programmes and content for Fraud, including the roll out of CBT and face to face training to ensure staff have an adequate awareness of Financial Crime risks.
• Provide practical case studies and guidance to ensure staff can recognise and respond to fraud threats.
• Providing advice when required on Fraud related regulation and IBP related policies.

Projects

• Where appropriate, participate in or lead Fraud work streams / projects within the Group.
• Maintain a fraud development roadmap to ensure processes and technology evolve in line with regulatory expectations and fraud trends.

General

• Build strong working relationships with other fraud and financial crime resources across the Investec Group.
• Encouraging a culture of openness, accountability, and fraud awareness across the business.
• Participation as part of the wider Financial Crime team to ensure that the whole team's objectives are achieved.

Core skills and knowledge

• Extensive hands-on experience in end to end Financial crime within a UK-regulated financial institution. Experience in AML/CFT, ABC and Sanctions is highly desirable but not essential.
• A good understanding of potential financial crime risk at a business unit level.
• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and analyse the impact to Investec Bank plc and its subsidiaries.
• Reporting and policy writing skills.
• Training and presentation skills.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to communicate at all levels and with a variety of stakeholders.
• Relevant industry qualifications (such as the ICA Diploma level within Financial Crime).
• To always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly.
• Strong work ethic and able to work on own initiative.

Any other attributes that would be helpful, but not essential for the role

Ability to multitask and prioritise

Strong administrative skills

*Advert will close on Monday 8 June 2026

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