At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead financial crime and payments teams, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
- Company: Dynamic financial services firm with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, opportunity to shape key business functions, and influence strategy.
- Other info: Join a forward-thinking environment with opportunities for growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in financial crime prevention and payment operations.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in financial crime, payments, and leadership roles.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Hybrid (North West)
Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Financial Crime & Payments Manager to lead and develop their financial crime and payments functions. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring robust financial crime controls while driving operational excellence across payment services in a fast-paced financial services environment. This opportunity would suit someone with a strong background in financial crime, fraud prevention, AML and payments who enjoys balancing regulatory compliance with operational performance and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Financial Crime and Payments teams, providing strategic direction and day-to-day leadership.
- Oversee AML, KYC, sanctions, fraud prevention and transaction monitoring frameworks.
- Ensure payment operations are delivered efficiently, accurately and in line with regulatory requirements.
- Drive improvements to financial crime controls, processes and technology.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex financial crime and payment-related issues.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with regulators, banking partners and key internal stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with FCA requirements, anti-money laundering legislation and wider regulatory obligations.
- Produce MI, risk reporting and performance metrics for senior leadership.
- Lead, coach and develop high-performing teams while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Support change initiatives, system implementations and regulatory projects across the business.
Skills & Experience
- Significant experience within financial services in a senior Financial Crime, Payments or Operations leadership role.
- Strong knowledge of AML, KYC, sanctions, fraud prevention and financial crime regulations.
- Extensive understanding of UK payment schemes and payment operations.
- Proven experience leading and developing operational teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience driving process improvement and operational efficiencies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Knowledge of FCA regulatory requirements and industry best practice.
What's on Offer
- Hybrid working
- Opportunity to shape and lead two critical business functions
- A collaborative and forward-thinking working environment
- Genuine opportunity to influence strategy and business growth
If you're an experienced leader with expertise across both Financial Crime and Payments, we'd love to hear from you.
