Head of Economic Crime Prevention Oversight
SALARY: £111,469 - £144,254
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Birmingham, Edinburgh
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
About this opportunity
Are you interested in preventing economic crime and have a passion for data and intelligence led risk management? If so, this is a fantastic opportunity for you to lead a team of Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Risk specialists! The Team provide oversight of Economic Crime Prevention across the Ring fenced part of the Group.
No day in Economic Crime Prevention is the same. We engage right across the Group, advising on ways to improve how we keep our customers, our colleagues and the bank safe. This means we work closely as a collaborative team and spend a lot of our time looking at different areas of the Bank and analysing data, controls and processes to help our teams and businesses.
It's no surprise then that we're looking for people who are up for challenge, have a thirst for ways to improve the business and themselves, love learning and are willing to be flexible. Your experience will be invaluable to us, whether it is already in economic crime prevention, risk framework and compliance, close to the customer in the business or in skills that support our future vision for the team.In return, you can expect to get great development opportunities, be empowered to try new ways of working and an opportunity to work across many areas of the Bank.
Day to day, you will:
- Setting and leading the development and implementation of the Group's ECP Oversight activity.
- Provide support and challenging both internally and externally, ensuring the right focus on ECP risk mitigation.
- Influencing key partners, contributing to broader strategic planning and business decision-making by providing deep subject matter expertise and a well-developed knowledge of the business, with a particular focus on Business and Commercial Banking (BCB) and Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB).
- Lead, support, develop and motivate a customer journey and BCB/CIB relationship team within the Group's 2nd Line ECP Risk Management Framework Team.
- Provide robust oversight and challenge to the business, ensuring that ECP Risks are fully understood, mitigated and managed.
- Advise Risk and Control owners in the implication of all aspects of ECP Risk management for the Group and drive a culture of ECP awareness.
- Ensure a robust and effective ECP Policy is in place and appropriate assurance, oversight and testing activity is undertaken.
- Support 2nd line governance to provide in-depth assessment of policy, risk appetite and threat landscape.
- Collate, interpret and disseminate ECP oversight reports, to support the Group ECP Risk Management Framework Director in ECP governance forums.
- Develop a schedule of thematic oversight reviews, ensuring that issues are highlighted, Business Unit action plans for resolution developed and as appropriate, escalated accordingly
- Assess Business Unit input in relation to current emerging and anticipated threats in ECP to help the Business Units shape current and future prevention, detection and disruption strategies and investment.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you'll need:
- Detailed knowledge of the ECP Risks within Onboarding, Ongoing Monitoring and BCB/CIB
- Experience of development and execution of a 2nd line oversight plan
- Ability to advise and influence the Group Economic Crime Prevention senior leadership team, Risk owners, Control owners and Business Unit leadership teams
- Ability to effectively communicate strategic direction for ECP Risk ensuring that it aligns with the Group's objectives
- Procedural/Product/Specialist Knowledge - Excellent technical knowledge of ECP Risk and the wider business
- Change Management - strategic development and delivery developing ideas into action
- Organisational Awareness - Extensive network and understanding of role partners play in delivering results
And any experience of these would be really useful:
- Liaising with regulatory bodies regarding ECP risks
- Working across the industry to help prevent Economic Crime
- Experience of presenting at senior risk committees
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
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey