Standards Design Manager, Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing

• This specialist role in Financial Crime will see you partnering with the business, products and the Risk function to identify, assess and manage its risks within agreed risk appetite, using the bank’s risk framework
• Within this specialist capacity, you’ll make a vital contribution to driving a generative culture of risk awareness, recommending solutions to financial crime risk issues within the businesses, and strengthening the level of ownership within the business
• Hone your risk awareness skills and advance your career in this fast-paced and varied role with a firm emphasis on your development
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub minimum 2 days per week

What you'll do

We’ll look to you to deliver a robust risk governance framework in line with the operational risk handbook and conduct and compliance handbook. You’ll also deliver relevant specialist risk activity, to build credible and realistic plans to move and sustain a control environment certification rating with risk appetite.

You’ll be maintaining and updating standards in an agile way to respond to policy change, and internally initiated standards changes identified through thematic insights derived from BAU escalations, controls gaps or inadequacies, solution defects and changing risk appetite.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Designing new standards, including creating strategic standards for all financial crime risk typologies for bank wide operational execution and assurance across the three lines of defence, that mitigate risk efficiently and effectively
• Leading and inspiring a team of business and customer control partners to make sure the team objectives are achieved
• Designing system requirements and progressing change requests to facilitate with system enhancements or fixes
• Collaborating with business product owner teams to turn standards into artefacts for onward implementation into strategic solutions and operating procedures
• Undertaking and investigating complex queries through to resolution

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need good working knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) processes, systems, controls and operating model, as well as experience of reporting analysis to stakeholders. We’ll also look to you to bring excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience of successfully engaging with stakeholders in order to successfully deliver initiatives.

Alongside experience of managing change in an agile way, using a multidisciplined team of expertise, you’ll also need knowledge of financial crime processes, systems, policies and regulations across multiple disciplines, specialising in AML or counter-terrorism financing, politically exposed people and exits.

On top of this, you’ll bring:

• Experience of working within the approved governance to make sure that any changes to existing documented procedures are compliant with policy and regulatory requirements
• Experience of collecting, evaluating and documenting business requirements
• The ability to analyse and evaluate multiple sources of information, alternatives and associated consequences
• The ability to successfully deliver both existing processes and ad-hoc accountabilities to the highest standards, while managing multiple agendas and stakeholder requirements