Salary: Up to £35K + benefits

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Financial Crime professional to join a leading challenger bank based in Edinburgh. The Financial Crime Assurance team plays an important part of the 2nd line of defence and is accountable for the delivery of the assurance of the Financial Control Framework, and gives you the opportunity to provide robust support and challenge to the 1st line to support the senior management in discharging their Financial Crime responsibility.  This is a high profile role which will involve building valuable relationships with senior stakeholders across the entire business.

As a Financial Crime Assurance Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for carrying out risk-based independent reviews to make sure that Financial Crime policies and procedures are being applied correctly and consistently across the business.

The role requires solid Financial Crime experience, including knowledge on AML, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption policies, regulations and controls.  In addition to this, assurance and controls assessment experience would be useful to support the team with developing and delivering a risk based Financial Crime Assurance plan.

Key skills:

• Expert in Financial Crime regulation and systems – AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, KYC
• Experienced in Financial Crime control testing, sampling and assuring processes with high standard of accuracy and excellent attention to detail
• Strong influencing and communication skills with the confidence to engage with senior management
• Experience working to tight deadlines

This is a great opportunity to join a growing team, where you will gain a breath of exposure across all areas of Financial Crime including: AML, Sanctions, KYC, AB&C. The bank will fully support you through any relevant qualifications that you may wish to study and will actively promote opportunities for you to progress within the bank.

If you are interested in finding out more, please call 07850766965 / email [email protected]