Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Specialist

Join us as an AVP Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Specialist. You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the firm against financial crime. With your strategic oversight, you will help ensure products and services aren’t misused for money laundering, terrorism financing, or other financial Crime. You will provide strategic oversight across the Financial Crime lifecycle to facilitate risk assessments, guide control governance and manage regulatory reporting with precision.

Your ability to interpret complex data and present clear insights empowers senior stakeholders to make informed decisions. You will thrive in dynamic environments, collaborate across diverse teams, and bring a forward-thinking mindset to every challenge. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in financial crime risk management, this role is built for you.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Specialist you must have:

• A strong background in Financial Crime or Compliance oversight, with the ability to deliver robust check and challenge and facilitate effective decision‑making.

• Experience working with senior stakeholders and skilled in presenting complex data points in an impactful and clear manner.

• In depth understanding of how to track and interpret KPIs and SLAs and you know how to turn data into decisions.

• The ability to drive continuous improvement and strategic transformation.

• Highly organised, with excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work flexibly in a dynamic, fast‑paced regulatory environment.

Location:

Glasgow with 3 anchor days in the office.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

The purpose of this role is to contribute to effective oversight of the firm’s compliance to Financial Crime risk management. Ensuring the business effectively mitigate the risks of products and services being abused for the purposes of money laundering, terrorism financing, or other financial crime. This role provides strategic oversight across Financial Crime through the facilitation and oversight of the annual risk assessment cycle, control governance, issues management and adherence to regulatory reporting requirements.

• The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities across Financial Crime oversight, MI reporting, risk assessment, and control governance. Key deliverables include:

• Producing weekly and monthly reports on overdue, new and coming‑due issues for BOC BU Directors, including horizon scanning packs and stakeholder coordination for issue materiality reviews and new issue forums.

• Providing Check & Challenge on data across a number of key business processes including Key Indicator submission, issue accuracy and annual organisational risk ratings.

• Creating and maintaining dashboards and slide packs that track open issues, breaches of standards and trends across the Financial Crime lifecycle.

• Reviewing and approving control amendments submitted via Sentinel and participating in governance forums such as the CSO Control Gaps and Enhancements Monthly Governance Forum.

• Supporting the delivery of Local Uplifts across jurisdictions, including Business Readiness Assessments, stakeholder engagement, and documentation of uplift actions and controls.

• Supporting the One Risk Assessment (ORA) programme through weekly Design Authority and Working Group meetings, bi‑weekly Scrum updates, and annual cycles of Inherent, Residual, and Controls Risk Assessments.

• Acting as a central point of contact for ORA‑related operational support, stakeholder queries, and communications across 1
  
  LOD, 2
  
  LOD, and policy teams.

• Producing monthly dashboards across all BBPLC businesses covering reportable Key Indicators (KIs), including commentary on metrics outside tolerance and remediation steps.

• Leading the quarterly and annual REPCRIM submission to the FCA, including performance reviews and trend analysis.

• Overseeing the KI Tool, managing…