Financial Crime Risk Manager

Job Description

Financial Crime Risk Manager

A leading global financial institution is seeking a highly experienced Financial Crimes Risk Processes SVP to strengthen its first‑line risk management capabilities within a complex, international services business. This is a senior strategic role, responsible for ensuring proactive, effective, and end‑to‑end management of financial crime risks across multiple products, regions, and functions.The ideal candidate will bring deep subject‑matter expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to influence across a large, global organisation. This role offers significant visibility with senior management and the opportunity to shape financial crime control effectiveness at scale.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead and enhance the financial crimes control environment across products, services, and operational processes, including customer lifecycle and transaction‑related controls.
• Provide expert guidance to business, risk, operations, technology, and compliance partners to ensure a cohesive, well‑designed control framework.
• Assess and strengthen existing processes and controls, identifying gaps and ensuring alignment with global and local regulatory expectations.
• Maintain clear risk and process mapping to ensure transparency of control ownership and coverage.
• Drive the identification, escalation, and remediation of control issues, including root‑cause analysis and sustainable resolution planning.
• Build strong partnerships across business heads, operations, technology teams, and second‑line functions to ensure a unified approach to financial crime risk management.
• Conduct thematic and targeted reviews of financial crime processes to validate consistency, control effectiveness, and policy adherence.
• Monitor emerging risks, regulatory developments, and product innovation to ensure the control environment evolves appropriately.
• Provide oversight through metrics analysis, monitoring activity, and reviewing corrective action plans.
• Prepare high‑quality reporting and updates for senior stakeholders, risk committees, and governance forums.
• Support timely responses to regulatory inquiries and contribute to cross‑business initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and improve the client experience.
• Collaborate with peers across the organisation to ensure a holistic approach to sanctions, AML, and broader financial crime risk.

Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree desirable.
• 15+ years’ experience in financial crime compliance, AML/CTF, sanctions, or risk management within financial services.
• Recognised professional certifications (e.g., ACAMS, ACSS) preferred.
• Strong understanding of payments, correspondent banking, trade finance, working capital, and liquidity products.
• Demonstrated experience in risk and controls, process management, or financial crime‑related operations.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide clear, insightful challenge.
• Experience operating within a large, globally‑distributed organisation.
• Proven project management and change‑management skills, with the ability to drive complex initiatives.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to assess processes and recommend enhancements to quality, controls, and efficiency.
• Independent, self‑starting, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience managing teams and developing talent.
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