Assistant Financial Crime Director; Event Driven

Job

This senior role sits at the forefront of financial crime supervision, overseeing event-driven regulatory activities and helping ensure firms effectively manage AML, CFT, and proliferation financing risks. The position offers significant responsibility, stakeholder engagement and influence across the financial services sector.

• Leading event-driven supervisory activities across regulated firms.
• Reviewing and assessing risk mitigation programmes and supervisory responses.
• Supporting licence, product and exemption applications from an AML/CFT/CPF perspective.
• Leading ad hoc inspections and investigations where required.
• Identifying emerging supervisory themes and financial crime risks.
• Supporting policy development and regulatory change initiatives.
• Managing regulatory cases and supporting enforcement referrals where necessary.
• Producing management information and supervisory reporting.
• Leading and developing team members.
• Delivering industry training, workshops and presentations.
• Representing the organisation with regulators, industry bodies and stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience within financial crime, compliance, regulation, risk management or supervisory environments and possess a strong working knowledge of AML/CFT/CPF legislation and guidance. Previous management experience, strong communication skills and the ability to make pragmatic, risk-based decisions are essential. Candidates should be comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders and representing the organisation both locally and internationally.