Senior Manager - Financial Crime - Bank

- Ensure implementation and compliance with Financial Crime frameworks in line with Regulatory and FirstRand Group requirements to ensure adequate identification, assessment, communication, control and monitoring of risks.

- To work proactively with the business to ensure activities are carried out in a compliant manner, while mitigating / preventing / controlling identified financial crime risks for London Branch Business Units ("BUs") within the Bank

- Ensure you are up to date with a strong understanding of UK Financial Crime matters, including regulatory requirements, forthcoming changes related thereto and understanding and reporting on their potential impact to Bank"s UK entities.

- Support planned growth of products and services offered across an increasing jurisdictional scope

- Monitoring and tracking Financial Crime regulatory changes, enforcements and communications to ensure all regulatory requirements are fulfilled. Prepare impact papers as necessary.

- Undertaking Financial Crime related monitoring reviews with full audit trail in line with the Compliance Monitoring framework, policies and procedures, Archer system requirements. Engage, discuss and agree monitoring requirements with key stakeholders. Track findings and advise on solutions and proactively review actions to ensure actions are completed on time, to the standards required.

- Completing and submitting all financial crime compliance related regulatory returns timeously.

- Providing Financial Crime related advice, guidance and support to all London Branch BU's and RMB EBS, as required.

- Providing oversight to counterparty onboarding and KYC reviews process including authorising amendments in counterparties' profiles on systems.

- Ensuring AML/ Financial Crime risk model for the Banks UK entities is kept up to date and providing approvals for any amendments therein.

- Reviewing risk forms and providing approvals, as appropriate.

- Acting as an escalation point for screening matters including customers, payments, employees and service providers.

- Providing quarterly PEP and suppliers' screening attestation to Group.

- Undertaking ad hoc financial crime relate requirements and project work as directed.

- Team support and providing cover for each other in the team.

- Demonstrate a high energy level and strong work ethic, as well as being organised and disciplined with a highly developed ability to get things done.

- Adhere to all related regulatory laws, rules and regulations to adequately and accurately reflect the standards of the Bank at all times.