Senior Financial Crime & Payments Manager

Location:

Hybrid (North West)

Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Financial Crime & Payments Manager to lead and develop their financial crime and payments functions. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring robust financial crime controls while driving operational excellence across payment services in a fast-paced financial services environment.

This opportunity would suit someone with a strong background in financial crime, fraud prevention, AML and payments who enjoys balancing regulatory compliance with operational performance and continuous improvement.

• Lead the Financial Crime and Payments teams, providing strategic direction and day-to-day leadership.
• Oversee AML, KYC, sanctions, fraud prevention and transaction monitoring frameworks.
• Ensure payment operations are delivered efficiently, accurately and in line with regulatory requirements.
• Drive improvements to financial crime controls, processes and technology.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex financial crime and payment-related issues.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with regulators, banking partners and key internal stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with FCA requirements, anti-money laundering legislation and wider regulatory obligations.
• Produce MI, risk reporting and performance metrics ...