Economic Crime Prevention Manager, Strategy and Change - #1777824

JOB TITLE: Economic Crime Prevention Manager, Strategy and Change
SALARY: £65,000 - £79,000
LOCATIONS: Edinburgh / Bristol / Birmingham / Manchester / Leeds
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

The BCB Economic Crime Prevention Team (ECP) assists the BCB and CIB businesses in embedding Group Economic Crime Prevention (GECP) Policy requirements. This includes activities to supervise the effectiveness and efficiency of risk management activities and reporting requirements to manage the many risks arising from financial crime.

The Team provides advice and counsel on the interpretation of the Policy requirements as they apply to BCB and CIB. This is key to promoting and embedding good risk and regulatory compliance practices. We also act as the interface between BCB and key collaborators (e.g. Group ECP and transformation platform teams) to ensure compliance with Group requirements.

An opportunity has arisen for a Manager within our Strategy and Change Team based in Edinburgh. We support the Managing Director of BCB Chief Controls Office in the delivery of ECP related transformation and change activities by providing subject matter expertise to proactively manage the associated economic crime risks. One of our key objectives is to undertake control effectiveness assessments of the key ECP controls to make recommendations for improvements and prioritisation of investment funding.

Reporting into the Strategy and Change Senior Manager, you'll join a small team of expert economic crime professionals. You'll be responsible for undertaking activities to support change and transformation activities.

You'll have responsibility for being the ECP subject matter expert to support the design and delivery of key change and remediation projects.

Working with other team managers, you'll represent us at meetings with Financial Crime and Compliance Technologies and transformation platform teams to deliver system improvements. Lead work to develop projects to make changes to key due diligence controls; such as Automated Portfolio Monitoring (APM) and MoSAIC transaction monitoring.

There are also pieces of ad hoc continuous improvement work required to support our wider ECP Team that often has exposure at senior executive level.

We're a highly collaborative team and encourage innovation to ensure we're proactively safeguarding clients, BCB, CIB and the Group from the impacts of economic crime.

What You'll Be Doing

• Work autonomously to provide subject matter expertise to design and implement change activities.

• Changes to the ECP control framework and / or appetite position are documented and approved through governance.

• Represent the Head of ECP Strategy and Change at change governance fora for APM and MoSAIC making decisions under delegated authority to agree system changes. You'll support initiatives delivered by transformation platform teams and Financial Crime and Compliance Technologies to develop controls.

• Collaborate with colleagues at all levels and across divisions, including the Head of ECP Strategy and Change.

• Work closely with management, the BCB Commercial Performance and Enablement Team, Financial Crime and Compliance Technologies and platform teams to implement and changes with the appropriate controls in place. Establish and build positive relationships with key collaborators at cross divisional change governance meetings.

• Be responsible for driving your own learning and development and stay on top of industry developments to maintain an appropriate level of economic crime risk knowledge.

• Continually challenge the current way of working and adopt continuous improvement and simplification initiatives.

What You'll Need

• Strategic problem solver with an open attitude to be inquisitive about the Group and ECP strategy.

• Knowledge of the Risk Management Frameworks, control self-assessment and control by design methodologies.

• Previous experience of working in an economic crime prevention team would be beneficial, with experience of applying the Policy requirements into business as usual activities to ensure Standards are applied.

• A sound knowledge and understanding of BCB and CIB including the various customer subdivisions, entity types and banking products/facilities would be advantageous.

• Strong presentation and written skills to document risk, control self-assessments and control by design outputs.

Any Experience Of This Would Be Useful

The following attributes are not a pre-requisite to the role but ability to demonstrate these would be advantageous:

• An ICA diploma or advanced certification in AML/CTF (or other relevant financial crime professional qualifications)

• Knowledge of BCB and CIB products, core data systems and data structures.

About Working For Us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.