Head of Financial Crime Prevention, London / Belfast

Company

AIB (NI)

Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Posted At

6/6/2025

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Description

Location/Office Policy: Belfast/London

Hybrid model Min 2 days in the office per week. We're recruiting for a Head of 2LOD Financial Crime Prevention and UK MLRO (SMF 17). We have an exciting opportunity within our UK Risk function for a dynamic Senior Manager to lead a team with second line responsibility for managing financial crime risk, and also to be the MLRO for the Bank. What is the Role: Reporting to the UK Chief Compliance & Regulatory Officer, this role will have overall responsibility for: The policy and procedures to prevent the Bank being used to further financial crime. The role holder will be the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for AIB Group UK PLC ("the Bank") in the UK. You will lead a team to protect the bank from money laundering and the bank and its customers from fraud. This will include engagement with UK regulators and law enforcement on financial crime matters. Lead, manage, and develop the financial crime team, promoting a collaborative and high-performance team culture. Key Accountabilities: Build and maintain effective relationships with senior key stakeholders across the Bank and with Group, working in a co-operative and constructively challenging manner. Maintain detailed technical knowledge of relevant Financial Crime regulatory changes and provide support, challenge, and advice to help the Bank Keep up to date with regulatory changes and ensure the Bank has implemented new financial crime and regulatory rules as appropriate, providing a proportionate degree of support and challenge. Maintain and oversee the Group's Financial Crime Framework to ensure its consistent application in the UK Bank. Provide on-going oversight of the financial crime risk profile to the UK CRO, including independent testing and monitoring of the control environment. Maintain insightful financial crime MI on the adequacy of the control environment and its effectiveness. Provide oversight for Sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons and customer / counterparty exits. Conduct 2LOD Financial Crime monitoring reviews for fraud prevention and sanctions compliance and suspicious activity reporting processes. Attend the key UK Governance committees with responsibility for overseeing financial crime. Engage and collaborate with Group colleagues in the management of financial crime risk across the Group. The role holder will be the main point of contact for Law Enforcement and UK Regulators in relation to financial crime and MLRO matters. Senior Manager Function (SMF) This is an SMF position as defined by the PRA and FCA. The successful candidate will be subject to extensive additional due diligence (ADD) in accordance with the regulatory standards. What you will bring: Proven experience (minimum 5 years) operating in a senior role within Financial Crime Prevention Experience in leading a team in the achievement of challenging goals Ability to influence at all levels up to Leadership Team Strong technical knowledge of Financial Crime regulation and associated systems and controls Ability to build capability within a team for future succession Why Work for AIB: We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements. Some of our benefits include: Market leading Pension Scheme Healthcare Scheme Variable Pay Employee Assistance Programme Family leave options Two volunteer days per year Please click here for further information about AIB's PACT
Our Commitment to You. Key Capabilities Enterprise Leadership - demonstrates strong capability for effective leadership scale, complexity and breadth. Instils and sustains organization-wide energy for what is possible, articulates a compelling, inspired, and relatable vision which is purpose-led and shareable by everyone. Strategic Mind-set - seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. Stakeholder Management and Collaboration - building partnerships and working collaboratively with stakeholders to meet shared objectives. Risk Mitigation - identifies and quantifies risk factors to facilitate the development and implementation of approaches for managing risks. Accountability
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. Drives Vision & Purpose - painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. Develops Talent - developing people to meet both their career goals and the organisation's goals. AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Application deadline : Thursday the 19th of June 2025 To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process click the Apply button below to Login/Register.

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