Vice President Lawyer- Financial Crime

Your will provide focused legal and regulatory advice on complex anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) matters. You will also provide expertise and leadership for significant investigations involving AML/CTF, sanctions and ABC alongside leading policy efforts for AML/CTF, sanctions and ABC issues. You will ensure compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations, and manage legal and reputational risks associated with its activities.

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
• Legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) laws and regulations..
• Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures including to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws.
• To support Compliance, contributing to and delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
• Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
  Qualified lawyer with a background in financial crime.
• Experience in AML, ABC, CTF, or Sanctions.
• Understanding of the requirements of legal risk management in a financial institution.
• Previous experience working in-house within the financial services industry, or in a banking/ financial services team within a law firm environment.