Financial Crime Operations Specialist - Quality Control

As a Financial Crime Operations Specialist - Quality Control, you'll serve as a subject matter expert across a broad range of financial crime activities, including Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Source of Wealth (SoW), Transaction Monitoring, screening and investigations. Through independent review, insightful analysis and constructive challenge, you'll help ensure high-quality decision-making, robust risk management and compliance with regulatory obligations.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced financial crime professional who is passionate about quality, continuous improvement and developing best practice. You'll work closely with operational teams, leaders and key stakeholders to enhance controls, identify emerging risks and drive improvements that have a meaningful impact across the organisation.

• Shape and influence financial crime quality standards across the organisation
• Apply your expertise across the full financial crime lifecycle, including CDD, EDD, Screening and Transaction Monitoring
• Drive meaningful improvements to controls, processes and customer outcomes
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk and Operations
• Coach and develop colleagues, helping to raise capability and consistency across teams
• Build your career within one of the world's leading investment management organisations

• Conduct independent quality control reviews across financial crime activities, including CDD, EDD, SoW assessments, periodic reviews, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and investigations
• Assess the quality, consistency and effectiveness of financial crime decisions, identifying errors, emerging risks, control weaknesses and opportunities for improvement
• Produce detailed quality control findings, root cause analysis, trend reporting and management information that drive meaningful improvements across the control environment
• Partner with operational teams and leaders to provide constructive feedback, coaching and guidance that enhances technical capability and supports consistent decision-making
• Act as a subject matter expert on financial crime quality standards, regulatory expectations and control requirements, providing oversight and challenge where appropriate
• Support the design, enhancement and testing of financial crime controls, quality frameworks and monitoring activities
• Analyse performance metrics and emerging themes, escalating significant risks or systemic concerns when appropriate
• Support audits, regulatory reviews and remediation activities, helping to validate corrective actions and ensure sustainable outcomes
• Contribute to the development of procedures, guidance, quality standards and training materials aligned to regulatory requirements and industry best practice
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency and effectiveness through process enhancements, automation and data-driven insights
• Participate in projects and initiatives that strengthen Vanguard's overall financial crime framework
  Significant experience in Financial Crime Operations, including AML/KYC, CDD, EDD, SoW, periodic reviews, screening, investigations or related financial crime disciplines within Financial Services
• Experience performing quality assurance, quality control, oversight, monitoring, testing or audit activities within a regulated environment
• Strong understanding of Financial Crime regulations and lifecycle, including AML, Sanctions, Bribery and Corruption and Tax Evasion. Strong knowledge of quality control and independent quality assurance methodologies, root cause analysis and control effectiveness assessments
• Experience assessing higher-risk clients and complex financial crime…