Senior Manager Financial Crime Risk & Controls

About the Role

Senior Manager Financial Crime Risk & Controls – Head Office, Baker Street, London.

We are seeking an experienced and commercially minded senior leader to lead and own the financial crime risk and controls framework across the enterprise, ensuring compliance with UK and international regulations while enabling sustainable business growth. The successful candidate will act as the firm’s subject matter expert, representing the organization with industry bodies and senior internal stakeholders.

• Maintain and mature the business‑wide financial crime risk assessment and supporting methodologies.
• Define and enhance the control framework across onboarding, screening, monitoring, sanctions, anti‑bribery compliance (ABC), and transaction oversight.
• Complete end‑to‑end process risk assessments and manage the library of documented business processes and associated controls.
• Lead control testing and assurance, including thematic reviews and sample testing.
• Own the risk registers, issues, actions, and remediation tracking.
• Develop management information (MI), diary of compliance, and control effectiveness reporting for senior leadership.
• Provide expertise and training to business, operations, technology, and compliance teams to ensure control uplift.
• Act as subject‑matter deputy to the MLRO specifically on risk and control matters.
• Oversee the establishment and maintenance of a robust control environment.

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and overseeing enterprise‑level financial crime risk frameworks, covering AML, sanctions, fraud, ABC, tax evasion, and market abuse.
• Proven track record leading risk assessments, control testing programmes, and issues management to ensure robust identification, mitigation, and remediation of financial crime risks.
• Strong expertise in interpreting and applying UK and global regulatory requirements (e.g., FCA, PRA, JMLSG, FATF, OFSI) and embedding them effectively into business processes and controls.
• Experience managing and enhancing governance structures, including policy development, oversight committees, KRIs/KPIs, and assurance reporting for senior management and regulators.
• Demonstrated ability to work with technology, data, and operations teams to deliver control automation, system improvements, risk analytics, and continuous monitoring enhancements.
• Skilled in leading high‑performing teams and managing complex stakeholder groups, including senior executives, compliance, internal audit, and external regulators.

Competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Applications are required to be submitted directly to Knight Frank; recruitment agency fees will not be accepted.