LoD GFCC Monitoring and Testing Consultant; FTC)

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments Asset Management and Life work together to provide access to balanced long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

As part of the Second Line of Defence (2

LoD) the Global Financial Crimes Compliance - Monitoring & Testing Manager delivers independent riskbased assurance over Financial Crime risks owned by the First Line (1

LoD). The role focuses on whether Financial Crime controls are designed appropriately implemented effectively and operating as intended using evidence to generate clear objective insight.

The role will suit someone with excellent communication skills strong analytical judgement who applies a thoughtful and balanced approach to challenge and who thrives in a team that values quality fairness and integrity.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver Monitoring & Testing reviews across Financial Crime risk areas using proportionate assurance techniques aligned to the intended purpose of each review.
• Assess the design implementation and operational effectiveness of 1
  
  LOD controls (e.g.: CDD/EDD third-party oversight sanctions transaction monitoring governance and MI).
• Produce clear well supported findings recommendations and high quality assurance reports and thematic summaries underpinned by robust audit trails and well indexed evidence.
• Translate technical issues into concise objective insight for senior stakeholders governance forums and committees.
• Contribute to MI thematic analysis and identification of trends or emerging risks.
• Provide insight to annual and inyear assurance planning highlighting relevant risks themes and regulatory drivers.
• Engage constructively with stakeholders while maintaining independence and professional clarity.
• Support colleagues analysts and contractors through guidance coaching and constructive challenge and coordinate activity involving multiple SMEs or data owners.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and a team culture built on quality integrity and respectful challenge.
• Undertake additional tasks within the scope of the role when required.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Experience supporting or assuring large scale Financial Crime transformation or remediation programmes.
• Financial Crime experience in asset management and/or insurance.
• Experience delivering assurance monitoring testing or audit within Financial Crimes Compliance.
• Strong understanding of AML/CTF Sanctions PF Fraud ABC and Tax Evasion Facilitation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to present clearly to senior management.
• Strong analytical capability with sound judgement and balanced evidence based conclusions.
• Strong organisational skills and confidence managing multiple priorities.
• Collaborative mindset with commitment to high quality outputs.

Desirable

• Proactive curious calm under pressure and comfortable in fastmoving environments.
• Experience applying dataled techniques (e.g. sampling pattern detection trend analysis) to support assurance reviews and thematic assessments.
• Experience working across multijurisdictional environments.
• Experience coordinating guiding or managing analysts SMEs or contractors.

What Success Looks Like

• High quality…