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Wednesday 31 January 2024 Salary Range
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Job Description Summary
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JOB TITLE: Head of Economic Crime Prevention
LOCATIONS: Edinburgh / Birmingham / London
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
We encourage applications from those who wish to work reduced hours or job share, subject to the needs of the business.
About This Opportunity
Economic Crime poses a threat to the safety and security of the Group, our customers, and our communities. We play a key part as one of the largest financial services providers in identifying and preventing Economic Crime (EC).
Against a backdrop of a changing threat environment, we must evolve our prevention, detection, and response controls to ensure that we're responding to the risks of today and the evolution of the threat of tomorrow.
We're the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) team with responsibility for managing EC risk (fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions) across the Business & Commercial Banking (BCB), and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) divisions.
Between them they have more than 1 million clients from sole traders through to the most sophisticated global corporate firms, and in 2024 and beyond have bold growth plans. We have a meaningful role to play to support both BCB and CIB grow their business in a safe and sustainable way.
So come and be part of Helping Britain Prosper by joining our ECP team to advance our control framework and capabilities and learning from best practice across the industry.
Your role will involve:
- Providing leadership and support to a team of c25 colleagues, being part of the Economic Crime Director’s leadership team, and deputising for the Director of ECP
- Leading the advancement of the EC risk and control framework, by finding opportunities to simplify and automate controls;
- Embedding a continuous risk management approach to the evolvement of our threat assessment, risk assessment, risk-based approach and customer and payment monitoring;
- Building a data analytics and insight capability;
- Improving and embedding a proportionate and risk focussed approach to quality assurance activity to evidence that the function, and our shared service providers are achieving proportionate risk outcomes;
- Supporting the wider leadership by getting involved in complex client reviews / decisioning;
- Partnering with key collaborators to be a trusted advisor to the business, and providing EC expertise to key strategic change initiatives; and
- Working closely with our other 1st line EC Risk colleagues to use best practice, and with our 2nd/3rd line partners to continually improve our controls.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What You’ll Need
We're looking for a strong delivery focussed Economic Crime SME who can help lead across critical teams to support our customers.
You’ll be an effective leader who is experienced in engaging at a senior leadership level, and who is readily able to support and join conversations with senior partners, government and regulators when required.
This is a very high-profile, exciting role for a colleague who wants to make a real difference for our customers, the Group, and the industry. You’ll also need to have:
- Consistent record in leadership and motivation of successful teams.
- Experience in managing Economic Crime risks within a continuous risk management framework.
- Curiosity with a real passion for, and dedication to, growth and developing themselves and their teams.
- Experience in leading the execution of significant change.
- Excellent communication skills, with proven track record to effectively communicate ideas, proposals, issues and implications to influence and operate effectively with leadership teams across the Group.
- Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, enquiring mind and the ability to analyse complex issues to counsel management decisions.
- Consistent track record in talent development, performance management and colleague engagement to drive a culture that values, recognises and delivers great outcomes.
- Strong resilience and growth mindset keeping abreast with the latest developments and external trends.
About Working For Us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
