Financial Crime Strategy Manager

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Business Unit: COO, Financial Crime
Salary Range: £58,400 – £73,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location : UK Hybrid – Glasgow, Gosforth, London
Contract Type: Permanent

Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

It’s an exciting time for us as we develop our Economic Crime team who have a critical role to play, keeping us and our customers safe. They are our first line of defence function and responsible for day-to-day financial crime risk identification, ownership, management and control. The Strategy team are critical in driving the function in the right direction at the right time helping the bank to effectively manage financial crime risk and protect its customers.

What you’ll be doing

1. Lead and run the evolution of the Strategic Roadmap, ensuring we are ahead of industry and competitors in fighting FC.
2. Lead the advancement and implementation of the Target Operating Model.
3. Design, progress and generate clear framework documents and product papers to formalise our controls.
4. Review and challenge commentary provided by Senior Managers in Operations Service Delivery Management, Risk Operations and Financial Crime Analytics to ensure the quality of papers.
5. Define and maintain appropriate governance and procedural documentation pertaining to relevant Strategic initiatives to ensure they are suitably updated to reflect progress/change and alignment to other teams.
6. Ensure an efficient flow of information across the organisation and across EC teams.
7. Manage internal information requests from stakeholders including the business and the second line of defence.
8. Coordinate and draft inputs for standing EC and business risk committees and forums with the audience including the Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Senior Managers with responsibilities in economic crime.

We need you to have

1. Proven experience of working within Economic Crime Strategy and/or Risk function.
2. Experience of designing and implementing successful TOMs within Financial Crime, including project management of these activities.
3. Experience in designing Strategic plans, framework documents and strategic product papers.
4. Significant experience of successfully dealing with business/strategy management within a Financial Crime environment.
5. Experience of preparing reports and papers to influence senior stakeholders, including the ability to communicate implementation ideas, risks and issues.
6. Strong leadership skills with a passion for inspiring, coaching and stretching others.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

1. Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
2. Demonstrated experience of innovation and disruptive change.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We’re customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we’re able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team at

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.

Advertised: 03 Mar 2025 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 14 Mar 2025 GMT Standard Time

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