Head of Client Risk & Decisioning
Locations: Edinburgh / Birmingham / London
Hours: Full-Time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
Job Description Summary:
Economic Crime poses a threat to the safety and security of the Group, our customers, and our communities. We play a key part as one of the largest financial services providers in identifying and preventing Economic Crime (EC).
Against a backdrop of a changing threat environment, we must evolve our prevention, detection, and response to ensure that we're responding to the risks of today and the evolution of the threat of tomorrow.
So, we're the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) team with responsibility for managing EC risk (fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions) across our business banking, commercial, and corporate businesses.
Join us and be part of Helping Britain Prosper to advance our control framework and capabilities.
Key Accountabilities:
* Providing leadership and support to a large team of more than 80 colleagues, including development of plans to achieve multi-skilling across the ECP subject areas, being part of the function's leadership team, and deputising for the Director of ECP.
* Leading a team of risk specialists responsible for assessing and investigating high risk factors and suspicious activity, deciding whether they are within our appetite to maintain or onboard.
* Exploring the use of technology / robotics to drive efficiency.
* Using your knowledge and experience by getting involved in complex client reviews / decisioning.
* Partnering with colleagues to be a trusted advisor to the businesses, and providing EC expertise to key strategic change initiatives.
* Working closely with our other 1st line EC Risk colleagues and with our 2nd/3rd line partners to continually improve our controls.
What You'll Need:
* Consistent record in leadership and motivation of successful teams.
* Experience in managing economic crime risks within a continuous risk management framework.
* Curiosity with a real passion for, and dedication to, growth and developing themselves and their teams.
* Experience in leading the execution of significant change.
* Excellent communication skills, with proven track record to effectively communicate ideas, proposals, issues and implications to influence and operate effectively with leadership teams across the Group.
* Strong analytical skills, critical thinking, enquiring mind and the ability to analyse complex issues to counsel management decisions.
* Consistent track record in talent development, performance management and colleague engagement to drive a culture that values, recognises and delivers great outcomes.
* Strong resilience and growth mindset keeping abreast with the latest developments and external trends.
About Working For Us:
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.
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