# Senior Manager – Financial Crime Intelligence & Oversight **Company**: Visa **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/GB---London-United-Kingdom/Senior-Manager--Financial-Crime-Intelligence-and-Oversight_REF089601W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_da2a710c-cf5 ## Description The Senior Manager – Financial Crime Intelligence & Oversight, who is also the Nominated Officer for Visa Payments Limited (VPL) is the individual nominated to receive disclosures under the Terrorism Act 2000 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. This role discharges responsibilities as delegated by VPL’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). This is pivotal and exciting role reporting into Visa Direct’s Group MLRO and has responsibility for overseeing the Financial Crime Intelligence & Oversight (FCIO) team and the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) regime at Visa Payments Limited (VPL). To succeed in this role, you must be a senior financial crime second line of defence professional who is a proactive go-getter and seasoned across the entire suite of financial crime controls, not just external suspicions reporting. **Responsibilities** - Act as VPL’s Nominated Officer, as delegated by the MLRO, for the purposes of UK anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing and sanctions obligations - Receive, review, and evaluate internal suspicious activity reports raised by employees and operational teams - Determine, applying independent judgement, whether the internal information gives rise to knowledge, suspicion, or reasonable grounds to suspect money laundering or terrorist financing - Where required, submit external SARs to the relevant authority and manage any request for a Defence Against Money Laundering (DAML) where applicable - Ensure decisions to file (or not file) are fully documented, quality-checked, and retained in line with recordkeeping requirements - Lead the VPL FCIO team - Oversee end-to-end case handling across internal SAR intake, triage, investigation, decisioning, and external filing - Drive quality checking within the FCIO function: sampling, peer review, error reduction, and continuous improvement - Identify and implement process improvements to FCIO team efficiencies and productivity - Own VPL’s financial crime MI framework including Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) - Collaborate with Compliance Operations and other 2LoD functions to produce concise and broad VPL Financial Crime framework MI - Serve as VPL’s day-to-day interface for law enforcement requests - Manage, process and address all incoming external due diligence questionnaires from clients and partners - Lead the end-to-end coordination of financial crime audits and independent framework reviews - Act as the MLRO’s primary financial crime intelligence and oversight adviser and escalation point for management information, control framework issues, suspicious activity and emerging typologies **Requirements** - Significant senior experience in second line of defence financial crime compliance work within payments, banking, fintech, or correspondent-style money movement - Extensive experience and technical knowledge of all financial crime controls including Client Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, Quality Assurance and External Reporting - Proven expertise in producing and presenting meaningful and aesthetic financial crime data, MI and KRIs and presentation decks to senior management - Demonstrable expertise in the multi-FIU suspicious activity reporting regimes - Experience leading teams of compliance professionals in a high-throughput environment with strong quality, governance and application/use of Generative AI and tools ## Skills ### Required - financial crime compliance - anti-money laundering - counter-terrorist financing - suspicious activity reporting - compliance operations - risk management ### Nice to have - professional AML qualification - ICA - Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) --- Source: [Apply at visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/GB---London-United-Kingdom/Senior-Manager--Financial-Crime-Intelligence-and-Oversight_REF089601W?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)