
Senior Financial Crime Officer
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
- All pillars of financial crime (Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/ Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Fraud, Market Abuse and Anti-Tax Evasion Facilitation) and,
- TMHCCI’s Licensing compliance, as necessary.
- Develop and lead a team to deliver a robust Financial Crime and, as necessary, Licensing Governance control framework including identifying and implementing enhancements as necessary.
- Ensure senior management and relevant Committee visibility of key risks and the appropriate escalation and resolution of financial crime and regulatory matters.
- Deliver the annual risk assessment exercise, ensuring the mapping of each division’s exposure to and control over financial crime, evaluation of controls, forming recommendations, and the follow-up of any remediation activities.
- Annual review of all financial crime related policies, procedures, and guidance (including the Financial Crime Framework, Sanctions, ABC, AML, Anti-Fraud and, where required Tax Evasion, Policies)
- Review and maintenance of the High-Risk Business Approval List.
- Delivery of key financial crime related MI and Committee reports.
- Manage the delivery of key financial crime controls including the quarterly Segregation of Duty reviews and Gifts & Entertainment registers.
- Promote a culture of compliance through ongoing horizon scanning across relevant financial crime and licensing developments and acquiring and sharing knowledge to support compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Perform impact assessments on financial crime regulatory changes, as necessary.
- Deliver communications to the business to ensure awareness of contemporary financial crime and licensing issues, trends or risks.
- Oversee and deliver annual and bespoke training, ensuring modules remain current and provide specialist training to staff as required.
- Manage, coach and develop team members including ensuring comprehensive understanding of all financial crime pillars, and where required, TMHCC’s licensing authorisations and permissions.
- Support the Financial Crime team on other matters such as regulatory returns; regulatory relationships; business queries; financial crime projects and other workstreams of the broader International Compliance team.
- Participate in all departmental activities (training, controls, maintenance and reporting) as required.
- Senior Financial Crime Officer with 6+ years experience in financial crime in the (re)insurance industry.
- Demonstrable experience leading and managing a team.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing financial crime compliance programs, leading and conducting risk assessments, and delivering training.
- Knowledge and experience of the application of UK, EU, US and UN sanctions in the (re)insurance sector.
- Demonstrate a high level of analytical and problem-solving capability and the ability to resolve issues.
- An instinct to be proactive, identifying improvements to the department’s ways of working, reporting and communications.
- Demonstrate a risk-based methodology in work methods and reporting.
- Ability to manage own workload and that of direct reports, prioritising tasks appropriately and ensuring that agreed delivery dates are achieved.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Good written communication skills and proven track record of delivering clear and fit-for-purpose documents including procedures and guidance.