Assistant Vice President responsible for executing audits in the Global Financial Crimes department at MUFG. Ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices in financial crime risk management.
About the role
- Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Capital.com, overseeing financial crime risk and compliance frameworks in a leading trading platform. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing operational capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous enhancement of the Group Financial Crime Framework, including policies, standards, governance structures, and risk appetite.
- Own and develop the annual enterprise-wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (FCRA), ensuring it drives meaningful risk insights and informs mitigation strategies and control evolution.
- Introduce, communicate, and enforce minimum financial crime compliance standards across regions and business units to ensure consistency of practice and regulatory alignment.
- Establish and drive strong financial crime risk management practices, embedding financial crime principles into enterprise risk frameworks.
- Design, stand up, and temporarily incubate new operational financial crime functions (e.g., new jurisdictional AML procedures, new product control requirements, onboarding/KYC models, sanctions processes) where required due to regulatory change, product launches, or organisational restructuring.
- Define the required processes, competencies, tooling, and KPIs for such functions to make them operationally effective.
- Oversee early-stage execution to validate design assumptions and ensure alignment with risk appetite and regulatory expectations.
- Manage the structured transition of these incubated functions into the First Line of Defence, ensuring they are fully capable and sustainably embedded.
- Develop and execute a group-wide 2LOD monitoring and assurance programme to test and challenge the effectiveness of 1LOD financial crime controls.
- Perform thematic reviews, deep dives, and targeted assessments to ensure operational adherence to minimum standards and regulatory obligations.
- Track, challenge, and report on remediation actions, escalating deficiencies to senior management where required.
- Provide expert 2LOD guidance and challenge to the First Line on new products, markets, technologies, and operational processes.
- Ensure that new business initiatives incorporate effective financial crime controls from the design stage through to deployment.
- Review and challenge risk assessments, model design, rule sets, and operational procedures to ensure they are robust, scalable, and compliant.
- Maintain awareness of emerging global AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, and ABC regulatory developments, and assess their impact on the group.
- Lead regulatory change projects within the financial crime domain, ensuring frameworks and standards are updated accordingly.
- Prepare and deliver clear MI, risk dashboards, and assurance reporting to the Executive, Board committees, and regulators.
- Partner with Product & Technology to ensure financial crime tooling aligns with regulatory expectations, risk appetite, and minimum standards.
- Collaborate with regional and functional leaders to embed strong financial crime governance and drive consistency across jurisdictions.
- Contribute to building a proactive risk culture, strengthening organisational awareness and accountability for financial crime risk.
- Build and lead a high-performing 2LOD financial crime compliance team, focused on oversight, assurance, advisory, and framework design.
- Provide coaching, training, and development to uplift financial crime expertise across both 2LOD and 1LOD teams.
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement, risk ownership, and regulatory excellence.
Requirements
- 7+ years’ experience in financial crime compliance, AML advisory, risk oversight, or similar roles within financial services or fintech.
- Proven experience designing risk management frameworks, conducting FCRAs, and establishing minimum standards.
- Experience setting up or remediating financial crime operational functions.
- Deep understanding of AML/CTF, sanctions, ABC, and fraud regulatory requirements.
- Strong knowledge of financial crime systems, model design, and data-driven control performance assessment.
- Ability to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into scalable frameworks and standards.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management, with a clear, structured approach to challenge.
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical capability and attention to detail.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving structure in high-growth or evolving environments.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
- Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid
- Annual Performance Bonus: Your hard work doesn’t go unnoticed! Celebrate your achievements with a well-deserved annual bonus tied to your performance.
- Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
- Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
- Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
- Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
- Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.
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