Financial Crime Compliance Manager

About this role

Job description

Role Title: Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Contract: FTC – 12 Months

Working pattern: Hybrid

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).

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