We are representing a national banking business in their search for a Head of Financial Crimes Compliance.
Why Join Us:
- Exciting newly created position with opportunity to work strategically with senior business executives
- Financially stable business with year on year growth of 15% for the previous eight years
- Culture built on valuing and empowering people, achieving goals through a superior customer experience
Expectations first 12 months:
- Build understanding of business and develop relationships with key executives and stakeholders
- Continue development of financial crimes group – improving and implementing policies and procedures, upskilling team members, providing strategic guidance
- Implementation of new financial crimes monitoring system
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the CEO and Audit Committee and managing a team of 12, you will be responsible for managing all financial crimes oversight for the business
- Actively participating in business decisions with a proactive approach, assisting the business in translating compliance into decision making process
- Participating in industry and bank committees for policy creation, ensuring consistency with regulatory requirements
- Implementing and maintaining an effective financial crimes reporting and communication program, training exciting and new employees
- Providing ongoing reporting and communication to senior management related to financial crimes compliance
- Working directly with regulatory bodies to ensure compliance
- Cultivating and enhancing the bank’s culture of compliance
- Providing thought leadership on the impact and implementation of regulation
- Acting as escalation point of contact for complex transactions
- Supervising and monitoring all financial crimes policies and procedures, ensuring they are updated and enforced in an appropriate timescale
Requirements:
- Essential Education: Bachelor’s degree
- You must bring significant financial crimes experience, ideally from a small to medium sized institution – including AML, OFAC, BSA, KYC and Sanctions
- You will have demonstrable experience improving financial crimes programs and implementing financial crimes systems and software
- You will ideally be CAMS certified or be prepared to undertake the certification process
Relocation Policy:
- The business will cover relocation costs for exceptional candidates – remote working is not available
Application Process for Head of Financial Crimes Compliance: Qualified professionals are to submit resume to Steve Harrison: steve@conselium.com
Published by Conselium Executive Search, the global leader in compliance search.
