Digital Assets - Senior Manager in London

Salary: Competitive – will be discussed at interview stage

Locations: London, Birmingham or Edinburgh

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Hybrid – at least two days per week or 40% of time at an office site

About this Opportunity

Digital Assets are transforming the future of financial services, and this role will lead the development of controls and frameworks for new product and technology builds. You will guide the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) oversight of Digital Assets, ensuring resilient controls in a high‑risk space.

What you’ll be doing

• Set strategic direction for ECP oversight of Digital Assets, aligning to Group risk appetite, policy and regulatory expectations.
• Lead and coach a specialist team, setting priorities, delivery plans and clear accountability across product, change and BAU activity.
• Own delivery of the ECP control framework for Digital Assets (e.g., digital wallets, tokenised deposits, stablecoins), from design through implementation and embedment.
• Partner with product, engineering, operations and the Digital Assets Lab to translate economic crime risks into practical requirements.
• Define and oversee financial crime risk assessments across the customer/product lifecycle (AML, sanctions, fraud), including inherent risk, control design and residual risk.
• Drive requirements and adoption of monitoring and detection capabilities for blockchain activity, wallet flows and tokenised transactions.
• Lead engagement with 2LOD ECP, Compliance and other assurance functions to secure challenge, sign‑off and evidence of control effectiveness.
• Ensure policy, standards and methodologies are updated for Digital Assets and implemented consistently across impacted areas.
• Oversee regulatory submissions and responses, ensuring accurate documentation and robust control evidence.
• Represent the business at governance forums and committees, providing clear actions on issues and risks.
• Manage key partner relationships and act as ECP business partner for senior leaders, advising on control outcomes and residual risks.
• Build ECP capability across Digital Finance through training, playbooks and knowledge sharing.

Why join us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform the Group and shape finance for good, investing in technologies, workplaces and people to create a great environment for everyone.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years’ experience as a senior Economic Crime Prevention leader in complex, high‑risk financial services environments.
• Deep expertise in Economic Crime Prevention, advisory, product or framework‑led roles at scale.
• Proven senior partnering and influencing across product, engineering, operations and risk.
• Experience designing, implementing and evidencing controls and leading end‑to‑end economic crime risk assessments.
• Strong understanding of AML, sanctions and regulatory expectations across the customer and product lifecycle.
• Ability to work in agile, change environments, translating policy into practical requirements.
• A proven people leader with experience developing teams and navigating them through growth or change.
• Strong sense of ownership, judgement and appetite to protect the Group, its customers and communities.
• Knowledge of the evolving Digital Assets space, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies and tokenisation, is advantageous.

Additional Qualifications

• An understanding of Commercial and particularly Markets products.
• Experience and understanding in payments, settlement and PSO frameworks.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion and we’re committed to an environment where everyone can thrive. We offer reasonable adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility and a Disability Confident Scheme guarantee.

Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday