Senior Financial Crime Strategy Manager

We're looking for a Senior Financial Crime Strategy Manager to play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving our financial crime framework. Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime, you'll act as a trusted deputy, leading major strategic initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping build the next generation of financial crime controls across the bank.

This isn't a traditional oversight role. You'll work at the heart of the business, partnering with Product, Engineering, Data and Operations teams to design smarter controls, improve customer outcomes and enable safe, sustainable growth.

A day in the life:

• Deputise for the Head of Financial Crime across leadership, product and governance forums.
• Lead major financial crime initiatives from concept to delivery, including transaction monitoring, screening, customer risk assessment and control optimisation.
• Act as a senior decision-maker for complex financial crime matters within delegated authority.
• Design and enhance financial crime controls across KYC, screening, monitoring, SARs and customer risk assessment.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to embed effective controls into new products and customer journeys.
• Use data, insight and emerging technologies to improve effectiveness, efficiency and customer experience.
• Represent the 1st Line position with credibility and influence, working closely with Risk, Compliance and senior stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop colleagues, helping build capability across the wider financial crime function.

About you:

• Significant experience leading financial crime strategy, controls or operations within banking, fintech, payments or a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong expertise across key financial crime disciplines, including transaction monitoring, KYC/CDD, screening, customer risk assessment and SARs.
• Experience operating as a senior decision-maker and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
• A product-minded approach, with the ability to balance risk management, customer outcomes and commercial objectives.
• Strong understanding of the UK financial crime regulatory landscape.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to simplify complex topics for diverse audiences.