Financial Crime Manager

Business Unit: Customer Experience, Customer Support
Salary range: £44,000 - £55,000 per annum
Remote - work from anywhere within the UK with occasional travel required to a hub
Contract type: 12 month fixed term
Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.
Do you know how to get the best out of people? Do you strive in developing others? Do you know your stuff about Financial Crime? Well, why not come join the Financial Crime Operations team, who are responsible for AML activity across all our products, as a Financial Crime Manager.
In this role you'll support the delivery of accountabilities and core activities of the Financial Crime Operations Managers and ultimately the Head of Financial Crime Operations.
You'll get to lead and coach a team of Investigators & Senior Investigators covering a range of AML systems and making sure we keep our Customers and our Bank safe.
What you'll be doing
Managing a team of Financial Crime SMEs responsible for - AML Client Screening and Transaction Monitoring, Sanction and PEP escalations, Customer Risk Assessments, Financial Crime training and education, Providing expert advice to colleagues on Financial Crime.
Managing a team of Financial Crime Senior SMEs responsible for - Customer Risk Assessments/periodic reviews, PEP and Sanction escalations, Quality checking SAR submissions to the NCA and DAML requests, Team representation and ownership for all engagement initiatives
Capacity planning to ensure adequately resourced teams and quality outcomes
Recruitment, development, and performance management of direct reports
Delivering business change/business readiness
Ensuring all internal and external service levels are achieved
Representing VM at industry intelligence sharing groups and internal projects, receiving, reviewing, and circulating new intelligence as appropriate and feeding operational best practice into projects
Ensuring all new or amended key stroke and high-level processes are documented, amended and communicated in accordance with the Risk and Operations framework
Own AML Risk Control Self-Assessment and operational risk actions and associated updates, amends and attestations
Complying fully with legal, regulatory and TCF requirements and all codes of practice and conduct within the business
We need you to have
Experience in Financial Crime Operations.
Excellent knowledge of Financial Crime legislation, regulation and industry guidance
A proven people leader who can motivate a team
Experience of delivering operational change would be a benefit
Proven research and analytical skills with the ability to analyse and communicate technical and regulatory matters in a non-technical manner
Excellent written communication and reporting skills with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We're making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK's best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, 'Making You Happier About Money', underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
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Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
Advertised:26 Mar 2024 GMT Standard Time
Applications close:05 Apr 2024 GMT Daylight Time