Senior Manager - Economic Crime Prevention, Strategy and Controls

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager - Economic Crime Prevention, Strategy and Controls

LOCATIONS: Birmingham / Bristol / Edinburgh / Glasgow / Leeds / Manchester

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
 

About This Opportunity

Do you have an intellectual curiosity and a passion for preventing Economic Crime, through design, application and utilisation of appropriate controls to protect the bank and our customers?

As a Senior Manager in the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Strategy and Controls team, you’ll play a pivotal role in crafting and improving the Group’s control environment to prevent financial crime across Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery (AB), and Fraud. You’ll lead a team of risk specialists to design, assess, and embed effective controls across client onboarding, transaction monitoring, and ongoing due diligence, while guiding strategic enhancements to the ECP framework and supporting senior manager accountability.

Working closely with partners across our Business & Commercial / Corporate & Institutional Banking divisions and Group functions, you’ll ensure controls are aligned with regulatory expectations and tailored to business needs. Your remit includes horizon scanning, threat assessments, and developing risk reduction pathways that inform strategic investment decisions. Using data and insight, you’ll drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of proactive risk management and collaboration - helping protect the Group and its customers while supporting our purpose to Help Britain Prosper.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the design and implementation of risk-sensitive controls across AML, Sanctions, AB, and Fraud domains.

• Driving strategic enhancements to the ECP control framework, aligned to the Group’s North Star ECP Strategy

• Supervising the governance and reporting of control effectiveness, including MI dashboards and committee escalations.

• Supporting the appointment and development of Accountable and Nominated Senior Managers (ASM/NSM), ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.

• Championing a culture of proactive risk management and continuous improvement, with a focus on colleague development and cross-functional collaboration

What You'll Need

• Strong leadership and partner management skills, with experience guiding large teams through change.

• Deep technical knowledge across ECP subject areas, particularly AML, Sanctions, and Fraud.

• A strategic approach with the ability to translate complex risk landscapes into actionable control improvements.

• Proven ability to influence across business areas and regulatory interfaces, ensuring alignment and accountability.

We're highly collaborative and help all colleagues to become rounded risk professionals by developing a broad range of skills. You'll be helping colleagues in their development. As a subject matter expert, you'll keep abreast of industry developments and regulation, sharing information across appropriate teams.

About Working For Us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey. 🚀