Financial Crime Assurance Manager (Banking)

Financial Crime Assurance Manager

Location: Milton Keynes or Glasgow
Salary: -74,000 + -6,000 car allowance + up to 12.5% pension contribution
Permanent, Hybrid 3 days/week (12 office days/month flexi)

Are you an experienced Financial Crime Assurance professional ready to lead impactful reviews and shape the future of financial crime risk management for a large retail bank? Lorien is proud to be recruiting on behalf of a major UK banking group for two Financial Crime Assurance Managers to join a high-performing second-line defense team.

About the Role

You''ll play a key role in delivering the Financial Crime Assurance agenda, leading end-to-end reviews across a wide range of financial crime areas (excluding fraud). You''ll assess the design and effectiveness of controls, validate issue remediation, and provide clear, evidence-based insights to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and deliver assurance reviews from planning through to reporting.
- Evaluate financial crime controls across AML, Sanctions, ABC, CTF, and FoTE.
- Design bespoke test scripts based on risk and control understanding.
- Validate issue remediation and provide assurance on closure.
- Produce high-quality reports and present findings to senior stakeholders (Director level and above).
- Provide leadership and guidance to a team of consultants (no direct line management).

What We''re Looking For

- 3-5 years'' experience in a Financial Crime Assurance, Monitoring, or Internal Audit role.
- Strong understanding of financial crime risks, controls, and UK regulations (e.g. MLR, POCA, JMLSG, FCA Handbook).
- Experience designing and executing risk-based test scripts.
- Proven ability to lead reviews independently and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Experience with issue validations is essential.
- Ideally holds or is working towards ICA or ACAMS qualifications (support available to achieve this if don''t already hold).

Desirable

- Exposure to sanctions is a plus.
- Background in banking or financial services preferred.
- Experience mentoring or guiding junior team members.

Why Join?

- Work in a team known for internal progression and development.
- Access to an internal Economic Crime Academy with ICA-endorsed training.
- Support to gain professional qualifications (e.g. ICA, ACAMS).
- Competitive benefits including:
- -6,000 car allowance
- Up to 12.5% pension contribution
- 30 days'' holiday + bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Bonus potential

Interview Process

- Informal 30-minute coffee chat
- Competency interview with a short task (1.5 hours)
- Final informal coffee chat

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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