Assurance and Special Projects - 12 Month FTC

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

Assurance and special projects:

• Acts as point of reference for relating to Assurance and demonstrate a good all-round technical knowledge on FCC programmes ensuring CABs programmes are aligned with changes and highest standards observed in the marketplace.
• Use understanding/knowledge to provide new ideas and solutions to current challenges relating to Assurance and proactively identify new tasks/methods that will add value.
• Engage confidently with others in the FCC Team and the Business and adjust personal style to further the Assurance agenda at CAB.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of the firms' products, activities and regulatory reporting obligations by staying abreast of regulatory changes and industry trends by attending relevant industry forums to proactively consider and assess the impact on our regulatory framework
• Support the development of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) annual risk-based assurance monitoring plan ensuring continues feedback through governance of the output of monitoring and assurance activity.
• Conducting assurance of 1st line Operations, IT, Sales and Trading teams by undertaking assurance to ensure that financial crime policies and procedures are understood and applied as expected in line with regulatory expectations.
• Drafting and communicating issues and actions to Senior Management on the outcome of assurance activity.
• Identifying relevant action owners and engaging with them to ensure issues and actions are well understood agreed and documented to facilitate easy resolution.
• Use the assurance programme as an opportunity to identify and recommend continuous development of improved financial crime risk and control solutions, procedures and cultures within CAB.
• Collaborating with colleagues in Governance, Financial Intelligence, Systems, Risk and Client Selection to identify gaps in CAB’s FCC Compliance programme that require attention.
• Enhance the quality of the CAB FCC governance processes by providing insights from Assurance activity that can adequately influence discussions and presentations made to attendees of governance committees.
• Use Assurance as an opportunity to challenge stakeholders on the design and effectiveness of financial crime controls.
• Maintaining strong stakeholder relationships across Front Office, Risk and Operations

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hub