Regulatory and Financial Crime Compliance Manager

A major Real Estate Consultancy client are recruiting for a Regulatory and Financial Crime Compliance Manager to be based ideally in Bristol, but can be London based with regular travel to Bristol. You will be responsible for providing regulatory compliance and financial crime support across the organisation.

The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a compliance professional with experience in financial crime and general regulatory compliance to take day-to-day ownership of many of the operational processes necessary to ensure a robust regulatory and financial crime compliance framework across the group of companies (including European subsidiary companies), with an opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of the programme. You will report into the London based director with responsibility for finance, risk and corporate governance and work closely with them, as well as other internal stakeholders and external advisors.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of KYC checks and economic sanctions screening processes that must be undertaken on new and existing clients.

• Help to identify regulatory changes across the business and provide input into how to comply with the new requirements.

• Involvement in the delivery of compliance projects ensuring technical excellence and a practical, business driven approach.

• Assist in the periodic preparation and submission of information to the relevant authorities.

• Collect and present detailed analysis to enable senior management to assess the regulatory compliance and financial crime risk profile of the business.

• Work closely with the Director responsible for finance and corporate governance and other stakeholders to escalate and address significant risks.

Requirements

• Previous experience of conducting KYC/AML checks and economic sanctions screening on new and existing clients and knowledge of the underlying money laundering and financial crime regulations.

• Strong understanding of financial crime, regulatory compliance and the associated risks.

• Some experience in a similar role in a business categorised as a ‘Relevant Person’ under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (information on the Payer) Regulations 2017.

• Ability to work cross functionally to deliver projects designed to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

• A high standard of written communication and experience drafting documents and reports for senior management.

• Working knowledge of the property sector desirable, but not essential.

• A relevant qualification such as a law or accounting qualification, ICA certificate/diploma, CISI diploma etc. desirable but not essential.

The ideal candidate will have a professional and can-do attitude, be self motivated, flexible and be able to prioritise and multi-task. He/she will have excellent organisational abilities to be able to balance different tasks ensuring deadlines are met whilst maintaining highest levels of accuracy.