Financial Crime Advisory VP

Overview

As a Financial Crime Advisory, you will act as a subject‑matter expert across the full spectrum of Financial Crime disciplines. This includes screening, transaction monitoring, service monitoring, impact assessments, customer due diligence, and identifying high‑risk indicators. You will bring a solutions‑focused mindset, a robust understanding of the industry landscape, and hands‑on experience delivering and implementing Financial Crime solutions.

You will operate as a trusted advisor to the business guiding Senior stakeholders on product, customer, and regulatory considerations, and shaping how Financial Crime risk is managed across the organisation. With a broad Financial Crime remit, you will play a key role in influencing strategy, driving change, and ensuring our controls remain robust, effective, and future‑ready.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Advisory, you should have experience with:

• Leadership; engaging, influencing, and driving change with compelling communication techniques.
• Senior stakeholder management.
• A solid understanding Risk and Controls.
• A broad knowledge of Financial Crime principles.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role can be based in either London, Glasgow, or Northampton.

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.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Or for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide 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, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for…