Are you looking for a new and exciting opportunity to be involved with ensuring the government, law enforcement agencies and private sector deliver critical economic crime reforms ? If so, we’d love to hear from you !
About the Team
The Sanctions and Illicit Finance team (SIF) is a friendly, busy, outward-facing team of c.30 people. We develop policies and legislation to address economic crime and illicit finance in the UK and overseas, to help protect the stability of the global financial system.
The team is made up of six branches:
1. Economic Crime Strategy Unit (ECSU), one of the team’s domestic-focused branches, which works with the Home Office, DBT, law enforcement and the private sector to deliver economic crime strategy.
2. Anti-Money Laundering Unit (AMLU), which owns the Money Laundering Regulations and the supervisory system which oversee compliance with them.
3. Sanctions and Counter Terrorist Financing branch, which works with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and others to craft financial sanction regimes.
4. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and International branch. This branch leads our strategy towards, UK preparations for, and input into, meetings of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and leads work on tackling international illicit finance. FATF sets global anti-money launder...