Location: London/ Hybrid
Salary: £65,000 + Bonus
About the Role
To assist the Group Financial Crime team and broader Group Compliance function in ensuring that the business has a robust financial crime and compliance framework in place which actively identifies, controls and reports on the management of significant regulatory risks
Responsibilities
- Working with the Group Financial Crime Manager to establish and maintain a robust financial crime framework which enables the business to comply with relevant financial crime laws and requirements in the territories in which it operates.
- Assist the Group Financial Crime Manager in ensuring that the business’ policies, processes and procedures demonstrate compliance with relevant regulatory requirements.
- Assist first line business owners to take direct responsibility for the management and control of financial crime related risk and to provide oversight and challenge to the business in order to ensure a robust framework is in place.
- Assist the Group Financial Crime Manager in the completion of the annual Financial Crime Risk Assessment.
- Provide advisory support to the business, including handling sanctions referrals.
- Assist the Group Financial Crime Manager, Business Unit Compliance teams and AML Nominated Officers to carry out investigations in relation to financial crime concerns.
- Supporting the Whistleblowing Process, ensuring concerns are appropriately escalated for internal investigation.
- Support the Group Financial Crime Manager with the provision of relevant training to the business.
- Support wider Compliance projects and initiatives as required.
- Actively contribute to the positive compliance and risk management culture in the Company and observing all relevant regulatory requirements.
- Review regulatory updates, issues and publications, analyse, and interpret their application to the business and communicate the analysis within the business as appropriate
- Actively develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of senior managers and underwriters across the business to ensure that processes are fully embedded
- Demonstrable, comprehensive Financial Crime knowledge and experience across International Sanctions (including a deep understanding of the UK, EU and US sanctions regimes), Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery, Anti-Fraud, Prevention of Tax Evasion, Prevention of Market Abuse and Competition Law
- Wider experience within a broader Compliance role
- Knowledge and experience of the Lloyd’s market
- Strong communication skills at all levels
- Ability to analyse compliance requirements and embed them into business processes
- Ability to build relationships to implement change
- Ability to apply regulatory requirements to commercial scenarios
- Ability to independently and pro-actively identify areas that require compliance focus and put together a plan to address