Governance and Control Manager - Economic Crime
Salary Details: Up to £51,000 (depending on relevant experience)
Summary
About the role
Our Economic Crime team have a key new role as we look to further understand and enhance the outcome of our members and key stakeholders' interactions with our Economic Crime team and the broader Society. This is a 12-month opportunity.
The Governance and Control Manager role will look at all aspects of Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, and Bribery & Corruption through the application of a strong customer approach underpinned by the requirement to deliver fair outcomes and meet all of our regulatory requirements, including Payment Services Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act, Money Laundering Regulations, Bribery Act and Immigration Act. Through leading the governance assessment and testing within the area, this role will be key in influencing the ongoing enhancements to our economic crime journeys.
This role will be responsible for both the ongoing development of the program, which is part of the Society’s Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Frameworks, and being the face of Economic Crime to stakeholders outside of the area. It will have responsibility for important stakeholder management at all levels across the Society, including providing Secretariat duties for a range of Economic Crime Risk committees and Working Groups.
It will also provide ongoing support across the full range of activities carried out in the Economic Crime Risk & Control team. These include Education & Awareness, Management Information in addition to a range of Risk & Control activities.
As this is a new role, a passion to influence the creation and ongoing continuous improvement of the governance and risk testing, and wider support activities will be vital.
About you
For this role you’ll be able to demonstrate a passion for the delivery of customer-centric economic crime decisions that also ensure compliance with our regulatory requirements, as well as being an experienced risk practitioner from an economic crime environment. Having extensive experience and understanding of the fraud and economic crime investigation process, policies and procedures including but not limited to Education & Awareness, Provision of Management Information and Governance & Control activities is essential.
You’ll be able to act as a subject matter expert on the policies, procedures and best practices used within Economic Crime 1st and 2nd Lines of Defence.
To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:
* Experience within a Risk & Control environment, preferably including economic crime responsibilities, with practical experience of fraud investigations, Economic Crime investigations, and an understanding of Operational Risk frameworks.
* Evidence of working with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to persuade and influence upwards.
* Attention to detail with experience of secretariat duties.
* An ability to interpret complex issues, good communication and strong decision-making skills.
* Experience of leading others and be able to demonstrate proactive coaching and management.
* Integrity is a must: you’ll be reviewing activities from a wide cross-section of departments and will need to show discretion and maintain total confidentiality at all times.
Desirable experience needed will be:
* Experience from a financial services background.
* Coaching or supporting others.
* Strong experience in both development and delivery of outcome testing would be beneficial.
* Change and project management and process improvement experience.
* A recognised fraud or risk qualification would be beneficial.
About us
As a mutual, we’ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. Now one of the largest Building Societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing.
We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation, but also of personality and the way we think. By being yourself, you’ll make us stronger.
You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that’s been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ by our teams.
Flexibility and why it matters
We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.
Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer
We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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