Group Financial Crime Manager

About the role

• Provide pragmatic, commercially minded financial crime advice to the business.
• Support the MLRO, including screening and analysis of internal SARs and advice on onward disclosures.
• Oversee the Group’s sanctions screening solution and approve escalations of screening alerts.
• Analyse complex sanctions cases across UK, EU, US, Canadian and Australian regimes.
• Support and oversee investigations into suspected financial crime incidents/breaches (including fraud), escalating findings and recommendations as needed.
• Review broker additional commission arrangements.
• Horizon scan for financial crime-related developments and communicate key changes at relevant governance forums.
• Develop, enhance and maintain financial crime policies, procedures, guidance and the wider framework, including completion of the annual Financial Crime Risk Assessment.
• Deliver internal/external reporting and strengthen MI, KPIs and KRIs (including monthly frozen funds reporting).
• Design and deliver tailored financial crime and sanctions training and communications; coach junior colleagues.
• Manage workload proactively and collaborate with UK and international Compliance colleagues as needed.

About you

• Extensive knowledge of international financial crime regulation and expectations for insurers (especially sanctions)
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable working autonomously at pace, using sound judgement and discretion.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
• Experience working with delegated authorities, including understanding of binding authority agreements.

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