As a Group Financial Crime Manager, you will strengthen the financial crime framework, provide compliance advice, and oversee investigations and reporting processes.
Join CFC’s Compliance team and help protect our business and customers from financial crime. We’re hiring a Group Financial Crime Manager (SM&CR Certified Function) to shape and strengthen our financial crime framework across the Group, working closely with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced, technology-led insurance environment.
You’ll support the enhancement, delivery and implementation of CFC’s financial crime framework and controls across the Group.
As a key SME within the second line Compliance team, you’ll provide pragmatic, commercially minded advice to help prevent financial crime across CFC Underwriting and other Group entities, and ensure our policies, standards and approach meet legal and regulatory requirements.
You’ll work closely with the wider Governance team and senior stakeholders across the business.
About the role
Key responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Provide pragmatic, commercially minded financial crime advice to the business.
- Support the MLRO, including screening and analysis of internal SARs and advice on onward disclosures.
- Oversee the Group’s sanctions screening solution and approve escalations of screening alerts.
- Analyse complex sanctions cases across UK, EU, US, Canadian and Australian regimes.
- Support and oversee investigations into suspected financial crime incidents/breaches (including fraud), escalating findings and recommendations as needed.
- Review broker additional commission arrangements.
- Horizon scan for financial crime-related developments and communicate key changes at relevant governance forums.
- Develop, enhance and maintain financial crime policies, procedures, guidance and the wider framework, including completion of the annual Financial Crime Risk Assessment.
- Deliver internal/external reporting and strengthen MI, KPIs and KRIs (including monthly frozen funds reporting).
- Design and deliver tailored financial crime and sanctions training and communications; coach junior colleagues.
- Manage workload proactively and collaborate with UK and international Compliance colleagues as needed.
About you
To be considered for this opportunity you must have strong second line compliance experience (up to 8 years) in the UK insurance market (e.g Lloyd’s managing agent / Cover holder or UK company market insurer). Other experience needed:
- Extensive knowledge of international financial crime regulation and expectations for insurers (especially sanctions)
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working autonomously at pace, using sound judgement and discretion.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Experience working with delegated authorities, including understanding of binding authority agreements.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
About
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Austin, Madrid, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 1200 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.Feeling like you need to tick every box before applying? We see things differently. In a rapidly scaling company like ours, ambition and the drive to learn count for more than a 'perfect' checklist. We're building the future of insurance, and that requires diverse talent eager to grow with us. If this role excites you and you're ready to make a significant impact, bring your unique background and let's build something great together.
CFC London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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