Enforcement and Illicit Finance Senior Manager

The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve. The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection. The IFR also has powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.

Responsibilities Include:

• Overseeing enforcement investigations into breaches of the Football Governance Act and our rules.
• Co-ordinating efforts to reduce the risk of illicit finance within the professional game.
• Developing the enforcement strategy, portfolio, policies and procedures.
• Overseeing investigations and leading on high profile case work.
• Establishing the IFR anti-illicit finance strategy, working with IFR supervisors and a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Building capability and operational processes and controls necessary for successful implementation within the new regulatory framework.
• Ensuring close working with data, policy, legal and supervision teams to support robust regulatory decisions.

Essential Requirements:

• Proven experience in overseeing regulatory, civil or criminal enforcement investigations.
• Experience or knowledge of illicit finance / financial crime supervision frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrating sound judgement and ability to reach evidence-based decisions.
• Strong delivery capability in a complex and high-risk project / programme environment.
• Ability to provide strong direction and persuasive future vision for the function.
• A collaborative approach and ability to think creatively about new issues.

Desirable Skills:

• Understanding of the football industry, including financial regulation and familiarity with the English football pyramid.
• Expertise in financial crime supervision / policy.

Terms and Conditions of Employment:

• Pension: 12% – An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.
• Flexible Benefit: 8% – Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension or take as cash (post tax).
• Reward: Performance-based reward programme.
• 31.5 days annual leave.
• Flexible and hybrid working – 40% in office attendance.
• Occupational sick pay.
• 9 months paid Maternity Leave and generous paternity and adoption leave.
• A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees.
• Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!

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