Financial Crime Systems Owner
The opportunity
We are looking for an experienced and Financial Crime Systems Owner to ensure the effective implementation, operation, and maintenance of systems and controls used to combat financial crime.
You will be responsible for configuring and optimising our systems to diligently combat financial crime, such as anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, and sanctions screening. You will oversee the software, data, and processes to identify, mitigate, and prevent criminal activities like money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud, aligning systems with regulatory requirements and the organisation's risk profile.
What you’ll be doing
- System Oversight: Managing the life cycle of financial crime systems, from selection and implementation to ongoing performance monitoring and upgrades.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that all systems and processes comply with relevant financial crime legislation and regulatory guidance, such as the FCA's Financial Crime Guide.
- Risk Management: Identifying and assessing risks associated with financial crime and developing strategies to manage these risks through system controls.
- Data Integrity: Ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and appropriate segmentation of data used within financial crime systems, such as transaction monitoring and KYC/KYB systems.
- Process Improvement: Continuously evaluating and enhancing the effectiveness of financial crime prevention and detection processes by leveraging system insights.
- Governance and Documentation: Produce and maintain system design documentation, configuration guidance, supporting models, and Risk & Control (RiskCo) artefacts to ensure robust governance, effective control operation, and audit/regulatory readiness.
- Stakeholder Management: Present regular updates to senior leadership on threat trends, control performance and roadmap delivery.
- Collaboration: Working with various stakeholders, including technology teams, compliance, and business areas, to integrate financial crime controls and foster a culture of compliance.
What we're looking for in you
- 5+ years in financial crime risk, AML, fraud operations, or related fields.
- Demonstrated success in systems ownership in a corporate or B2B environment
- Familiarity with APIs and system integration. Experience configuring Financial Crime platforms for one or more of the following: Sanctions screening, Transaction monitoring, KYC/KYB, CDD, Fraud detection.
- Strong understanding of financial crime typologies, AML regulatory expectations (e.g. FCA, JMLSG), and systems assurance principles.
- Demonstrated ability to translate compliance requirements into technical configurations and workflows.
- Excellent communication skills to work across Compliance, Technology, Product, and Operations with an ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment.
- Experience working with or leading cross-functional projects across compliance, technology, and operations.
Our Promise: Shieldpay is an equal opportunities employer. For Shieldpay building a fair and transparent workforce begins with the recruitment process that does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. We offer flexible working options, such as flexible hours and hybrid work, to support our employees' work-life balance
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