Description
The Investment Banking Financial Crime Client Risk Governance & Risk Appetite Lead is accountable for the design, operation and continuous enhancement of the Financial Crime client risk governance framework across the relevant Investment Banking businesses.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead and evolve client risk governance and escalation frameworks.
- Lead and develop a high-performing governance team with clear accountabilities, service standards and succession plans.
- Oversee Financial Crime Risk Appetite governance and exceptions management.
- Produce executive-level committee reporting and risk insights.
- Drive governance transformation, control enhancement and regulatory readiness.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to influence complex risk decisions.
- Act as the principal 1LoD governance contact for senior Business stakeholders, Financial Crime Responsible Executives, Compliance, MLROs, Legal and relevant control functions on client risk governance and risk appetite.
- Prepare senior leaders for material forum decisions and executive governance discussions.
- Lead simplification and enhancement of the client risk governance landscape.
- Design and embed sustainable operating processes and metrics for escalation initiation, case tracking, prioritisation, breach management, decision implementation and evidence retention.
- Define requirements for supporting technology, workflow and document repositories, partnering with delivery and operational teams on implementation.
Essential experience
- Significant experience in Financial Crime, risk, controls, compliance, governance or a related discipline within a complex financial services organisation.
- Demonstrable experience designing, leading or enhancing senior governance forums and producing executive-level committee reporting.
- Considerable knowledge of client risk governance, financial crime risk appetite, escalation, risk acceptance and decision-making frameworks.
- Experience operating across Investment Banking, Corporate Banking and/or Markets, with an understanding of complex client, product and jurisdictional risk.
- Proven ability to provide credible challenge and influence senior stakeholders across the first and second lines of defence and partner functions.
- Excellent written communication, with the ability to convert complex risk information into succinct executive narrative and decision-ready materials.
- Experience managing multiple recurring governance cycles alongside transformation, remediation or control enhancement activity.
- Experience leading and developing teams in a high-accountability environment.