Senior Manager - Economic Crime Prevention

Economic Crime poses a threat to the safety and security of the Group, our customers, and our communities. We play a key part as one of the largest financial services providers in identifying and preventing Economic Crime (EC).

Against a backdrop of a changing threat environment, we must evolve our prevention, detection, and response to ensure that we're responding to the risks of today and the evolution of the threat of tomorrow.

We're the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) team with responsibility for managing EC risk (fraud, money laundering, bribery, sanctions) across our business banking, commercial, and corporate businesses.

Between them they have more than 1 million clients from sole traders through to global corporate firms. We've an important part to play help our business achieve their growth aspirations in a safe and sustainable way.

So, join us and be part of Helping Britain Prosper to advance our control framework and capabilities.

Core Purpose : This is an opportunity to lead a team of risk specialists responsible for assessing and investigating high risk factors and deciding whether to maintain or onboard clients.

This will include a level of enhanced due diligence as appropriate. You'll work with 2 other Senior Managers covering our risk specialisms, including : Sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons, Fraud, Adverse Media, Anti Money Laundering due diligence on high-risk clients;

Correspondent Banking due diligence; and in-depth investigations triggered by suspicious client activity.

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.

We encourage innovation, to focus on risks and streamline wasteful processes. You'll lead in delivering continuous improvement activities.

These are to ensure the team keeps abreast of regulatory changes and horizon risks, as well as eliminating non-value adding tasks or processes.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

Do you have demonstrable experience leading teams and ability to work effectively with partners across a variety of business functions?

You'll need to show a passion for developing new ways of working and knowledge of the ECP risk specialisms covered in this team.

Strong experience and technical knowledge in an ECP role.

Proven ability to manage teams.

Track record in coordinating work in order to achieve expectations and follow established timelines.

Partner management skills, to lead important client relationships with guidance from senior colleagues.

Knowledge of, or a passion to learn about, additional ECP risk areas.

And Any Experience Of These Would Be Really Useful

Coaching skills and track record of personal development.

Experience in the design and implementation of a compliance programme while ensuring adherence to regulatory and compliance standards.

Ability to identify shortcomings, then suggest and implement improvements to existing business practices.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.

We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.