Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager

Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager

Location: York, London, Bristol, Sheffield or Eastleigh (50% onsite)Duration: 6 MonthsStart Date: ASAP

The Opportunity

We’re supporting the search for an experienced Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager to join a high-performing 2nd Line Financial Crime team. This is an opportunity to operate at a senior level, providing oversight, advice and challenge across a complex Insurance, Wealth and Retirement environment.

This role would suit a strong financial crime professional with deep AML expertise who enjoys influencing stakeholders, solving complex risk issues and helping shape effective financial crime frameworks. You’ll work across business and risk functions, supporting a proactive financial crime culture and helping ensure robust systems and controls remain in place.

The Role

You will act as a subject matter expert across Financial Crime with a particular focus on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) and Facilitation of Tax Evasion.

Operating within the 2nd Line Financial Crime function, you’ll provide specialist oversight and support to business stakeholders, contribute to strategic change initiatives and support Deputy MLRO responsibilities within the UK business.

This is a broad role combining both business-as-usual oversight and project/change activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide 2nd line financial crime oversight, advice and challenge across the business

• Act as SME across AML/CTF and financial crime regulatory requirements

Support Deputy MLRO responsibilities and wider financial crime governance activities

Deliver financial crime risk assessments and provide input into key business initiatives

Interpret and advise on evolving AML regulations, industry guidance and emerging risks

Support regulatory engagement and internal governance forums

Contribute to financial crime training, awareness and stakeholder engagement

Provide meaningful management information and reporting to senior stakeholders

Support control enhancements, remediation activities and process improvements

Work closely with stakeholders across all three lines of defence

Essential

Proven experience operating within Financial Crime Risk, Compliance or Oversight functions

Strong AML expertise with experience applying regulations in complex environments

Demonstrated experience delivering financial crime initiatives through collaboration and influence

Experience providing oversight and challenge from a 2nd line perspective

Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Comfortable communicating technical concepts to both specialist and non-specialist audiences

Experience assessing and managing financial crime risks and controls

Ability to operate across both BAU activity and change programmes

Desirable

Experience operating at Deputy MLRO level or supporting MLRO responsibilities

Background within Insurance, Wealth, Banking or other regulated financial services environments

Exposure to Tax Evasion, Sanctions or broader Financial Crime disciplines

Relevant professional qualification (ICA Financial Crime, Compliance or equivalent)

What We Are Looking For

We’re looking for someone commercially minded, technically strong in AML and comfortable operating as an internal advisor and challenger. This is not a transactional KYC or operations role — we’re seeking someone who can bring strong judgement, influence stakeholders and help strengthen financial crime outcomes across the business.