Be Head of Financial Crime Execution

Date live:
**08/26/2025**

Business Area:
**CIB & Regional Management**

Area of Expertise:
**Compliance**

Contract:
**Permanent**

Reference Code:
**JR-0000069154**

Join us as a EU Head of Financial Crime Investment Bank (1LOD)
- Take on a specialist leadership role, leading a team who provides holistic advice on the interpretation and impact of financial crime policy and standards on the business
- You’ll be building out financial crime advisory and programme management capability to deliver multidisciplined advice across the Investment Bank, addressing gaps in service proposition with fit for purpose solutions
- This is an opportunity to build relationships across the financial crime industry both with peer banks and service providers and regulatory authorities to understand trends, risks, issues, control failures across the industry

**What you'll do**

As the EU Head, you’ll be building and leading relevant specialist to deliver credible and realistic functions to interpret and embed Financial Crime standards and guidance in line with business risk appetite.

You’ll be accountable for the leadership of EU Team support to all parts of the FinCrime Hub and franchises on the interpretation of FinCrime policy, standards and risk appetite decisions including jurisdictional considerations.

You’ll also be:

- Working closely with key stakeholders in franchises and the lines of defence to identify new and emerging opportunities to strengthen and diversify capability
- Leading EU FinCrime Team, including support for standards, technology and transformation teams implementing strategic financial crime systems spanning all disciplines
- Partnering with colleagues across Operations, Compliance and Controls to provide specialist support to identify and address capability, process or risk gaps
- Coordinating with the second line of defence for major policy framework changes and realignment to ensure impact assessment and alignment across the first line of defence
- Partnering with the lines of defence to act as the primary contact for FinCrime regulatory engagements and requests, working closely with the FinCrime Hub and franchise teams to manage and coordinate responses to regulatory requests
- Acting as the primary first line of defence point of contact for FinCrime related audits, legal cases working closely with the second and third lines of defence, and providing specialist knowledge and support with confidential sensitive FinCrime investigations

**The skills you'll need**

In addition, you’ll need:

- Experience of building and leading functions of financial crime teams, reacting to policy and strategic change to build fit for purpose and relevant advisory capability
- Demonstrable stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence at senior management levels and collaborate across the organisation
- Experience of working with and delivering across the three lines of defence.
- Proven leadership skills, building and nurturing diverse teams who provide support across a global operational footprint
- The ability to analyse and evaluate multiple sources of information, alternatives and associated consequences
- Product knowledge across International Corporate Bank, Banking ad Markets.

Join us as EU Head of Financial Crime Investment Bank (1LOD)
- Take on a specialist leadership role, leading a team who provides holistic advice on the interpretation and impact of financial crime policy and standards on the business
- You’ll be building out financial crime advisory and programme management capability to deliver multidisciplined advice across the Investment Bank, addressing gaps in service proposition with fit for purpose solutions
- This is an opportunity to build relationships across the financial crime industry both with peer banks and service providers and regulatory authorities to understand trends, risks, issues, control failures across the industry

**What you'll do**

As the EU Head, you’ll be building and leading relevant specialist to deliver credible and realistic functions to interpret and embed Financial Crime standards and guidance in line with business risk appetite.

You’ll be accountable for the leadership of EU Team support to all parts of the FinCrime Hub and franchises on the interpretation of FinCrime policy, standards and risk appetite decisions including jurisdictional considerations.

You’ll also be:

- Working closely with key stakeholders in franchises and the lines of defence to identify new and emerging opportunities to strengthen and diversify capability
- Leading EU FinCrime Team, including support for standards, technology and transformation teams implementing strategic financial crime systems spanning all disciplines
- Partnering with colleagues across Operations, Compliance and Controls to provide specialist support to identify and address capability, process or risk gaps
- Coordinating with the second line of defence for major policy framework changes and realign