About this role
Join CFC's Compliance team and play a pivotal role in safeguarding our business, customers and reputation from financial crime. We are seeking an experienced Group Financial Crime Manager (SM&CR Certified Function) to lead the ongoing development, enhancement and oversight of CFC's financial crime framework across the Group. Operating within a fast-paced, technology-driven insurance environment, you will help ensure that our approach to financial crime risk remains robust, effective and aligned with evolving regulatory expectations. As a key subject matter expert within the second-line Compliance function, you will provide pragmatic and commercially focused guidance to stakeholders across CFC Underwriting and other Group entities.
You will oversee the implementation and ongoing effectiveness of financial crime policies, procedures and controls, helping the business identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risks while supporting sustainable growth. Working closely with senior leaders, the wider Governance team and colleagues across the organisation, you will influence decision-making, drive best practice and help ensure compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to: Provide pragmatic, commercially minded financial crime advice to the business.
- Support the MLRO, including screening and analysis of internal SARs and advice on onward disclosures.
- Oversee the Group’s sanctions screening solution and approve escalations of screening alerts.
- Analyse complex sanctions cases across UK, EU, US, Canadian and Australian regimes.
- Support and oversee investigations into suspected financial crime incidents/breaches (including fraud), escalating findings and recommendations as needed.
- Review broker additional commission arrangements.
- Horizon scan for financial crime-related developments and communicate key changes at relevant governance forums.
- Develop, enhance and maintain financial crime policies, procedures, guidance and the wider framework, including completion of the annual Financial Crime Risk Assessment.
- Deliver internal/external reporting and strengthen MI, KPIs and KRIs (including monthly frozen funds reporting).
- Design and deliver tailored financial crime and sanctions training and communications; coach junior colleagues.
- Manage workload proactively and collaborate with UK and international Compliance colleagues as needed.