Senior Planning Specialist

Financial Crime Risk Assurance Senior Specialist (systems focus) Location: remote Innovative, digital-first financial services client who truly values and rewards their employees Outstanding benefits package Our client is looking to hire an Economic Crime Risk Assurance Senior Specialist to join their Economic Crime Risk team. The role will operate as a subject matter expert, designing and executing systems assurance activities to ensure the bank’s Financial Crime systems and controls are robust, helping protect customers and the organisation from risk. As part of a wider team of assurance professionals delivering the Economic Crime Assurance Plan, you will be focused on: – Acting as a key subject matter expert, designing and executing systems assurance activity across Fraud, AML, CTF, Sanctions, and related areas. – Providing assurance around systems effectiveness, including payment screening, client screening, Transaction Monitoring, Customer Risk Assessment, and fraud prevention/detection systems. – Planning and delivering a risk-based annual Economic Crime Assurance Programme. – Leading independent testing of systems components including data lineage/mapping, data reconciliation, rule/model calibration, change management and governance. – Consistently producing high-quality written and verbal reports to senior management. – Minimum 5 years’ experience in Financial Services within Financial Crime/Fraud analytics, managing and analysing large volumes of complex data. – Good SQL knowledge and experience (SAS experience beneficial). – Proven experience delivering assurance/audit reviews of Financial Crime systems and data feeds. – Expertise in Economic Crime risks, regulations, threats, and mitigation strategies