Description
We are seeking a Manager, Financial Crime to join our Risk and Compliance team at OakNorth. As a mid-senior advisory role reporting to the MLRO, you will provide advisory on financial crime escalations to second line, including CDD, high risk situations, PEPs, gifts and entertainment, sponsorships and more. You will bring a commercial and balanced mindset to everything you do, enabling safe scale and growth.
The Financial Crime team at OakNorth operates across all areas of the UK and US business, advising, challenging, and enabling the business to grow in a safe and sustainable way. We are currently building out our use of AI to modernise how second-line risk management works in practice.
Responsibilities:
- Provide advisory on financial crime escalations to second line
- Bring a commercial and balanced mindset to everything you do, enabling safe scale and growth
- Support and/or lead the delivery of BAU delivery items – policy, risk assessment, training, MI
- Identify and help deliver AI use cases that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of second-line financial crime risk management
Requirements:
- Around 5 years' experience in financial crime within a regulated banking or financial services environment
- A solid grounding across AML, ABC, fraud, and sanction, with the confidence to advise on complex cases across multiple themes
- Understanding of commercial lending, retail savings and business banking product sets
- Great stakeholder skills , you're comfortable engaging with the business and operations and building relationships across teams
- A genuine interest in and working knowledge of AI tools and how they can improve risk management in practice
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday plus personalised benefits
- Subsidised private medical insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events, plus in-house Barista Bar in the London office
- Volunteering time off to support causes that matter to you
- Salary sacrifice schemes , cycle to work, nursery, gym, and electric car scheme