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Financial Crime Advisory – Global Payments London (4 days in the office) Up to £90,000 + excellent benefits + discretionary bonus

This Financial Crime Advisory role is with a global payments firm operating in a fast-paced environment, supporting a broad mix of corporate and institutional clients. This is a financial crime opportunity for a confident Financial Crime professional with excellent stakeholder management skills who can hit the ground running.

The role will involve working closely with the first line of defence to identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risk but you will sit in the second line. This includes acting as the main point of contact for financial crime queries, supporting new business initiatives and client migrations, reviewing client activity to ensure onboarding and monitoring are consistent, and helping design and implement new systems and controls. You will also provide financial crime advice, training and best practice guidance across the business.

We are looking for someone with a solid track record in financial crime within the payments sector, able to operate in an advisory capacity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime
• At least 2 years in a 2nd line financial crime advisory capacity
• Strong knowledge and proven ability to conduct risk assessments
• 4+ years’ experience across at least two regulated payments firms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence in a fast-paced environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a financial crime professional who enjoys both the technical and advisory aspects of the role and wants to make an impact in a global payments environment.

Team Description

The Financial Crime team (Regulation) forms part of the Firm's second line of defence and oversees all aspects of financial crime management, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Sanctions and Fraud for the bank

The team's primary responsibilities include:

• Establishing a robust framework to prevent, detect, investigate, and report financial crime risks.
• Ensuring comprehensive financial crime policies and procedures are maintained and embedded within the business, in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the business in implementing effective systems and controls to manage financial crime risks.
• Ensuring all relevant staff receive appropriate financial crime training.
• Providing financial crime-related management information to Senior Management, highlighting relevant risks as needed.
• Positioning the team as a trusted control function dedicated to protecting the Firm from financial crime risks.

Description of role and key responsibilities

To be part of a team that ensures the Financial Crime responsibilities comply with all relevant regulations. In particular to assist in:

Policy

• Develop, maintain and implement effective fraud risk management policies and standards covering internal and external fraud, APP fraud, cyber-enabled fraud, mule accounts, and identity theft.
• Ensure fraud-related regulatory and legislative developments (e.g., FCA expectations on fraud prevention, APP fraud guidance, UK Finance best practice) are identified and policies updated promptly.
• Benchmark fraud policies and frameworks against industry peers to ensure best practice alignment.

Risk Assessments

• Maintaining effective risk assessments of AML, CTF, ABC, Sanctions, Tax Evasion, and Fraud in conjunction with the business and Operational Risk to enable a risk-based approach to the management of Financial Crime risk within the firm
• Where appropriate attend relevant fora/committees to enable timely identification of potential risks to the Financial Crime system of controls.
• Maintain the Fraud Risk Assessment framework, ensuring all key fraud typologies and scenarios are considered across business lines, client lifecycle stages, and digital channels.
• Coordinate Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) for fraud, ensuring risks are accurately identified, controls documented, and effectiveness tested.
• Partner with business units to embed ownership of fraud risks and controls within the first line of defence.
• Ensure assessment outputs are used to inform risk appetite, policy development, monitoring, and resource prioritisation.
• Present findings and control gaps to senior committees, recommending enhancements and tracking remediation actions.

Training

• Develop and deliver effective training programmes and content for Fraud, including the roll out of ace to face training to ensure staff have an adequate awareness of Financial Crime risks.
• Provide practical case studies and guidance to ensure staff can recognise and respond to fraud threats.
• Providing advice when required on Fraud related regulation and the firms related policies.

Projects

• Where appropriate, participate in or lead financial crime work streams/projects, including but not limited to AML, ABC, Sanctions and Fraud.
• Maintain a financial crime development roadmap to ensure processes and technology evolve in line with regulatory expectations, emerging risks and financial crime trends, including fraud detection, prevention, and response strategies.

General

• Build strong working relationships with other fraud and financial crime resources across the bank
• Encouraging a culture of openness, accountability, and fraud awareness across the business.
• Participation as part of the wider Financial Crime team to ensure that the whole team's objectives are achieved.

Team Description

The Financial Crime team (Regulation) forms part of the Firm's second line of defence and oversees all aspects of financial crime management, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Sanctions and Fraud for the bank

The team's primary responsibilities include:

• Establishing a robust framework to prevent, detect, investigate, and report financial crime risks.
• Ensuring comprehensive financial crime policies and procedures are maintained and embedded within the business, in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the business in implementing effective systems and controls to manage financial crime risks.
• Ensuring all relevant staff receive appropriate financial crime training.
• Providing financial crime-related management information to Senior Management, highlighting relevant risks as needed.
• Positioning the team as a trusted control function dedicated to protecting the Firm from financial crime risks.

Description of role and key responsibilities

To be part of a team that ensures the Financial Crime responsibilities comply with all relevant regulations. In particular to assist in:

Policy

• Develop, maintain and implement effective fraud risk management policies and standards covering internal and external fraud, APP fraud, cyber-enabled fraud, mule accounts, and identity theft.
• Ensure fraud-related regulatory and legislative developments (e.g., FCA expectations on fraud prevention, APP fraud guidance, UK Finance best practice) are identified and policies updated promptly.
• Benchmark fraud policies and frameworks against industry peers to ensure best practice alignment.

Risk Assessments

• Maintaining effective risk assessments of AML, CTF, ABC, Sanctions, Tax Evasion, and Fraud in conjunction with the business and Operational Risk to enable a risk-based approach to the management of Financial Crime risk within the firm
• Where appropriate attend relevant fora/committees to enable timely identification of potential risks to the Financial Crime system of controls.
• Maintain the Fraud Risk Assessment framework, ensuring all key fraud typologies and scenarios are considered across business lines, client lifecycle stages, and digital channels.
• Coordinate Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) for fraud, ensuring risks are accurately identified, controls documented, and effectiveness tested.
• Partner with business units to embed ownership of fraud risks and controls within the first line of defence.
• Ensure assessment outputs are used to inform risk appetite, policy development, monitoring, and resource prioritisation.
• Present findings and control gaps to senior committees, recommending enhancements and tracking remediation actions.

Training

• Develop and deliver effective training programmes and content for Fraud, including the roll out of ace to face training to ensure staff have an adequate awareness of Financial Crime risks.
• Provide practical case studies and guidance to ensure staff can recognise and respond to fraud threats.
• Providing advice when required on Fraud related regulation and the firms related policies.

Projects

• Where appropriate, participate in or lead financial crime work streams/projects, including but not limited to AML, ABC, Sanctions and Fraud.
• Maintain a financial crime development roadmap to ensure processes and technology evolve in line with regulatory expectations, emerging risks and financial crime trends, including fraud detection, prevention, and response strategies.

General

• Build strong working relationships with other fraud and financial crime resources across the bank
• Encouraging a culture of openness, accountability, and fraud awareness across the business.
• Participation as part of the wider Financial Crime team to ensure that the whole team's objectives are achieved.