Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Financial Crime Oversight & Challenge

• Drive second line oversight and challenge of the Financial Crime Framework across the Shawbrook Group, ensuring risks are appropriately identified, managed, and escalated to the Deputy MLRO and MLRO.
• Develop and maintain Shawbrook's financial crime framework, policies, methodologies, and controls across AML/CTF, Proliferation Financing, Fraud, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and Tax Evasion.
• Identify control weaknesses and emerging risks, supporting effective remediation and sustainable improvements.

Regulatory Engagement & Governance

• Support regulatory engagement with the FCA and law enforcement, including preparation of responses, remediation plans, and governance submissions.
• Represent Financial Crime Compliance across governance forums and committees, providing oversight of financial crime MI to identify and escalate material trends and risks.

Data, Technology & Innovation

• Support the evolution of Shawbrook's data-driven financial crime capability, including enhanced MI, analytics, dynamic risk assessments, and trend analysis.
• Contribute to the responsible development and adoption of AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve efficiency, monitoring, investigations, and risk assessment whilst identifying associated criminal misuse risks.

Risk Management & Policy Oversight

• Take ownership for creating and embedding Financial Crime policies and Standards across the Shawbrook Group, supporting identification and remediation of non-compliance and control weaknesses.
• Assist with financial crime risk assessments relating to products, services, industries, jurisdictions, and emerging business activities.

Advice, Training & Culture

• Provide timely, practical financial crime advice to stakeholders and support training initiatives to foster a strong financial crime prevention culture across the Group.
• Build effective relationships across first and second line functions to support collaboration and challenge.

Essential

• Strong understanding of UK financial crime regulatory requirements, including MLRs, POCA, Sanctions regimes, Fraud risk management, and FCA expectations for systems and controls.
• Experience operating within a financial crime compliance, risk, or advisory role within financial services.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex information and provide practical, risk-based solutions.
• Experience working with financial crime data, MI, or analytics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide effective oversight and challenge in a commercially aware manner.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and governance forums.

Desirable

• Experience supporting or developing financial crime technologies, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions, including understanding of emerging risks associated with digital fraud and technology-enabled financial crime.
• Professional financial crime qualification (e.g. ICA, ACAMS, CFE or equivalent).

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done