Financial Crime Manager

Salary £55,000 -£60,000

City based

Our client, a new fintech based in the heart of the City of London, are looking to recruit a Financial Crime Manager to join their expanding business. Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime, the Financial Crime Manager will be working across Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing and Anti Bribery & Corruption. The Financial Crime Manager will be pivotal in the early stages of the business as we continue to grow in operationalising Financial Crime controls and governance. A core part of the role will be to optimise customer-facing processes to fully align with overarching governance frameworks.

Main responsibilities of the Financial Crime Manager will also include;

• Provide input into our client's Financial Crime Strategy and Roadmap
• Input into financial crime resourcing plans to align with the growth of the company
• Work alongside the Head of Fraud and Financial Crime to establish robust Financial crime processes with the Operational Team
• Implement, enhance and oversee fraud prevention and Financial Crime Law processes
• Work with to Operations Team to meet key SLA's
• Identify, optimise and automate processes by working with partners to deliver best in class financial crime prevention alongside a string customer experience
• Build strong relationships with partners, including platform providers
• Have the ability to escalate and elevate financial crime topics in an appropriate manner so that senior management are able to understand and prioritise accordingly
• Ensure that controls are in place to ensure that the Financial Crime processes are executed in accordance to our client's corporate governance
• Input to fraud prevention strategies
• Analyse key data to improve the detection fraudulent behaviour
• Analysis and investigation of fraud escalation cases
• Ability to spot fraud trends and improve the effectiveness of anti fraud systems
• Provide weekly KPI and goal performance reports to the senior managers
• Oversight of all operational Fraud and financial Crime processes
• Strong management and oversight of customer claims processes ensuring
• Being a mentor to more junior members of the team in relation to systems, regulation and operational processes

To be considered for this exciting opportunity, ideal candidates must have the following experience & skills;

• Minimum of 5 years experience working within Fraud or Financial Crime within banking or lending
• Experience in enhancing operational processes and implementation of technological advancements
• Diploma in AML
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Experience with predictive fraud transactional systems such as Falcon, Hunter, Feedzai, etc.
• Good knowledge of fraud and anti-money laundering legislation
• Strong knowledge of Chargeback processing
• 2 + years of people management experience
• Proven experience of developing fraud strategy and framework
• Good knowledge on payments
• Proven customer support experience;
• Previous use or qualification in SQL, SAS, or similar programmes

• Regulatory training