Job Description

This senior position involves taking a leadership role across a broad range of Financial Crime matters, including:

• Being a recognized leader for your team, forging strong relationships with partners in the business, taking opportunities to address meetings and departments; and establishing a reputation for empowering and supporting the firm, whilst maintaining appropriate compliance and control
• Overseeing the firm’s Client Due Diligence (CDD) policies and procedures, and acting as an escalation point for complex acceptance decisions;
• Managing a growing team of Financial Crime professionals, currently a team of 6.
• Enhancing the team’s capability and supporting your team’s career development;
• Creating, maintaining, and improving Financial Crime policies and procedures for use within the firm, including responding to changes in regulation;
• Ensuring FCC team review of client acceptance cases is performed punctually, in a risk focused and value-added manner;
• Advise Partners and teams on existing and new sanctions compliance matters impacting the Firm, legally and in the context of PII cover;
• Receipt of internal Suspicious Activity reports from colleagues, determining if an onwards report to the National Crime Agency (NCA) is required, and if so drafting that report;
• Supporting, and in part leading, a current improvement programme which will enhance the use of technology and central resources to improve efficiency whilst maintaining compliance with relevant regulations;
• Proactively identifying areas of risk where further mitigation may be needed and acting to address them;
• Taking a leading role in all other Financial Crime requirements, such as training, monitoring, and;

Benefits

• A 35-hour working week with flexibility around the core hours of 10am-4pm
• Agile working policy giving you the option to work from home for up to 3 days per week.
• 25 days annual leave. After 5 years’ service, the entitlement will be increased by 1 day.
• In addition, employees are entitled to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Contributory pension scheme (The firm will contribute 5% of salary on a matched basis with employee from their date of joining)
• Life assurance cover of 4 x annual salary,
• Working from home allowance of £25 a month
• Car allowance of £5,000 (if joining at Senior Manager grade)
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan that runs from October to September each year. The scheme enables staff to share in the profits of the firm. Payment is usually c£1,000. Paid in December.
• Employee referral scheme. Assistant Manager level and below, including support staff, will attract a referral reward of £5,000, Manager level or above, will attract a referral reward of £10,000.
• New client referral scheme. Members of staff introducing a new client to the firm, have the potential to receive a referral payment of up to 10% of the first year’s total fees.
• Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme. This is based on both individual performance and firm performance.
• Private Medical – entitled to join on successful completion of probationary period

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The successful candidate will have experience of working within an accountancy firm or a law firm and have extensive Financial Crime knowledge / experience.
The key skills / experience the successful candidate must have include:

• Extensive Financial Crime knowledge, to include the Money Laundering Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act, and related guidance for the Accounting Sector;
• Experience of overseeing compliance with Financial Crime regulations, including having had oversight of CDD procedures;
• The ability to assess risk and form opinions of the acceptability of a client, considering both AML risk and broader risk to the firm;
• A thorough understanding of the services offered by our firm;
• Experience of regularly working with partners / senior leadership and a confidence to work with such stakeholders in a collaborative way, including experience of getting buy-in from senior leadership;
• A proven ability to balance the need for compliance with all appropriate regulations, with an ability to work in a commercial and pragmatic way; and
• An experienced team leader who is focused on helping others to develop.