Financial Crime Strategy Manager
Core
Shaping and evolving the financial crime framework by designing smarter controls, influencing senior stakeholders, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to enable safe, sustainable growth.
Role type
Senior IC financial crime strategy manager
Builds
Financial crime controls (transaction monitoring, screening, KYC, SARs) embedded into new products and customer journeys
Domain
Banking / Fintech / Financial Crime
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Financial crime strategy, transaction monitoring, KYC/CDD, screening, customer risk assessment, SARs, stakeholder influence, product-minded risk management, UK regulatory landscape knowledge
Preferred skills
Data insight utilization, emerging technologies adoption, mentoring capability
Technologies
Transaction monitoring systems, screening platforms, KYC tools, data analytics platforms
Responsibilities
Deputise for the Head of Financial Crime in leadership and governance forums; Lead major financial crime initiatives from concept to delivery; Act as a senior decision-maker for complex financial crime matters; Design and enhance financial crime controls across KYC, screening, monitoring, and SARs; Partner with Product and Engineering to embed controls into new products; Use data and emerging technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency; Mentor colleagues to build capability across the financial crime function