Post Office Ltd Hiring Near Me – Financial Crime Manager In Aberdeen

Overview

Position Title: Financial Crime Manager

Company: Post Office Ltd

Location: Aberdeen, UK

Job Description

Activities include undertaking risk assessments and making recommendations for improvements in processes and controls to minimise risks and non-compliance, supporting training and awareness initiatives, suspicious activity investigation and reporting and providing reporting to relevant management and governance bodies (including RCC & ARC).

Responsibilities:

• Support the Post Office 2025 strategy to remain number one in Travel Money by delivering robust and effective money laundering controls, transaction monitoring and reporting
• Accountable for providing financial crime advice, assessment and assurance to stakeholder groups across Post Office on the inherent risks of financial crime in products, services and processes, providing recommendations on appropriate controls to mitigate such risks through design and process improvements, and the design and deployment of appropriate internal and external fraud and financial crime risk prevention and detection methodologies
• Undertaking financial crime investigations; providing subject matter expertise for key product and service projects and contract tenders; assessing tender responses from suppliers relating to financial crime requirements
• Responsible for developing and maintaining effective working relationships with a variety of key stakeholders both inside and outside Post Office (including regulators and law enforcement), ensuring that an effective compliance culture is fostered and promote the Compliance function across key internal stakeholder groups
• Responsible for reviewing and assessing any regulatory and legislative changes impacting financial crime; external regulatory supervision orders and penalties to ensure that equivalent controls in Post Office are effective; National Crime Agency and JMLIT typology reports; industry financial crime data
• Delivering assurance activity against financial crime policies and providing input to governance reporting (including annual Gifts & Hospitality and MLRO reports) via the Risk & Compliance Committee, and the Audit & Risk Committee for both Post Office and Post Office Insurance (POMS)
• Working with stakeholders to deliver effective training and communication relating to all aspects of Financial Crime and ensuring effective deployment of solutions
• Maintaining and monitoring Financial Crime Compliance risks and working in collaboration with the Risk team to ensure that financial crime risks are properly assessed for each functional area of Post Office, Post Office Insurance and Payzone Bill Payments
• Undertaking industry horizon scanning/review of any ABC and AML/CTF regulatory penalties published and producing documented assessment of likely impacts for Post Office.

Requirements:

• Excellent influencing skills and the ability to interact with all levels of management, including senior management
• Sound written and verbal communications
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Working knowledge of financial crime risk management and assessment tools and techniques and the impact they have (or may have) on commercial profitability and customers
• Working knowledge of product and service design and delivery, and/or managing product, service or project delivery risks
• Able to produce high quality work and attention to detail
• Previous experience working in a financial crime area within a Financial Services company or a money laundering regulated environment is desirable
• Discretion dealing with sensitive and confidential work