Economic Crime Project Manager - Secondment​/FTC

Responsibilities

To support the Risk Function in delivering its objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third‑party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

Vice President expectations: contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies and processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies and procedures. If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions and changes.

Lead specialists to influence operations, balance short and long‑term goals and ensure budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. Demonstrate leadership behaviours: listen and be authentic; energise and inspire; align across the enterprise; develop others. For an individual contributor, act as a subject‑matter expert, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, train and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, support the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organisation functions to contribute to achieving business goals. Collaborate with other areas of work and keep up to speed with business activity and strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives, adopting research outcomes in problem‑solving.

Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Key responsibilities include reviewing documentation for accuracy and compliance, supporting change management, mitigating risks, and providing regular updates to stakeholders to ensure the successful and timely delivery of KYC and remediation objectives.

• Significant experience in project and/or programme management, with responsibility for coordinating complex work streams and delivering against key milestones.
• Proven experience leading or managing remediation projects, preferably within KYC, AML, customer due diligence or regulatory compliance environments.
• Considerable stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, engage and collaborate effectively across multiple business functions and seniority levels.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with a track record of managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes within tight deadlines.
• Significant AML or KYC experience at a leadership, ownership or subject‑matter expert level, with a considerable understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Experience operating within a robust controls and governance framework, including risk management, oversight, documentation review and compliance monitoring.
• May be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.