Description
We are recruiting for Financial Crime Manager to join our COO team. This is a great opportunity for someone who has strong experience in financial crime controls and is confident supporting compliance, oversight, and risk management across multiple jurisdictions.
As a Financial Crime Manager, you will play a key role in protecting Aviva Investors from financial crime. You will be responsible for owning and strengthening financial crime controls, ensuring our operational processes remain compliant with Anti-Money Laundering regulations across multiple jurisdictions, as well as Aviva’s Financial Crime Standards.
You will take ownership of key activities, applying a risk-based approach to deliver positive client outcomes while maintaining robust controls that protect the business. Working closely with internal stakeholders and external service providers, you will provide guidance, constructive challenge, and oversight to ensure consistently high standards of compliance and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Proven experience operating and enhancing financial crime controls within an asset management environment, with a strong understanding of AML, KYC, customer due diligence, and wider regulatory requirements, particularly within the private markets sector.
- Strong experience applying risk-based decision-making, with confidence in conducting and reviewing customer due diligence using financial crime systems, screening tools, and third-party data provider.
- Strong understanding of complex corporate structures and financial crime processes, with the ability to take ownership, provide effective challenge, and drive positive outcomes in a fast-paced environment that requires agility, strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and supporting decision-making in a regulated environment.
- A professional qualification in financial crime (e.g. International Compliance Association), or equivalent would be desirable but not essential.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications).
- Discretionary bonus opportunity - depending on individual performance and Aviva Investors’.
- Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
- 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
- Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
- Make your money go further with up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
- Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
- Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
- Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
- Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 annual volunteering days to help others.