Assurance - Transition and Enablement Manager in Manchester

Join us as an Assurance Transition and Enablement Manager. In this high-profile role, we'll look to you to make sure your unit is effectively planned, resourced and operating at its full potential. You'll bring specialist Quality Assurance and Economic Crime expertise to manage risks, support operational improvements and drive transformation initiatives. This is an opportunity to play a key role in protecting our customers and strengthening the bank's control environment. You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum of two days per week working from the office.

What you’ll do:

• Help shape and deliver the assurance strategy across the Economic Crime Hub, using insight and continuous improvement to enhance customer outcomes and operational effectiveness.
• Maintain key assurance processes, performance measures and management information (MI) to support decision-making.
• Support the Assurance & Enablement Lead in driving the evolution of the assurance operating model, helping align capabilities, resources and ways of working to the Economic Crime Hub strategy.
• Support the implementation of strategic platforms and transition states, including Real Time Assurance (RTA), Customer Monitoring and Sentinel.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across the Economic Crime Hub, Franchises, SLOD and Internal Audit to ensure quality assurance (QA) activities remain aligned to business and customer needs.
• Support the implementation of strategic tooling and the integration of assurance into key platforms, transformation initiatives and change programmes, including RTA, Onboarding AI and Risk-Based Sampling.
• Contribute to the design and implementation for Project Ivy, CURIC Investigations and Thematic Testing across Economic Crime Hub.
• Use resources effectively to improve productivity, manage costs and support delivery outcomes.
• Analyse data and MI to identify opportunities for improvement and support change initiatives.
• Lead and support local and global projects that support assurance transformation.
• Strengthen risk culture through a proactive approach to end-to-end risk management.

The skills you’ll need:

• Experience working within an Economic Crime environment, supported by a strong understanding of financial services.
• Proven people leadership skills, with the ability to coach, motivate and develop others while driving high performance.
• Strong collaboration skills, able to build effective relationships across the business and work closely with support functions to improve efficiency, capability and delivery.
• An understanding of the financial services industry and the needs of our customers.
• Knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Crime products, processes and banking systems.
• Experience of risk, compliance and legal requirements across different jurisdictions.
• An understanding of people processes, policies and workforce management practices.

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 30/07/2026

Ways of Working: Hybrid