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Head of Economic Crime Prevention
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Edinburgh • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Lead the Insurance, Pensions and Investments Risk Economic Crime Prevention team to ensure positive customer outcomes.
- The Head of Economic Crime Prevention Oversight (and our MLRO for our Insurance, Pensions, and Investments entities) is a key role within Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I), providing leadership and strategic direction in the management of risks across our business.
- The MLRO is accountable to the IP&I Chief Risk Officer and IP&I Chief Executive, and to the Group Director of Financial Crime Prevention as the IP&I Head of ECP Oversight.
- They will apply an extensive understanding of current and emerging fraud and crime risks ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, regulation, and guidance through the deployment of appropriate anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud and anti-bribery policies, controls, and procedures.
- They’ll acquire and disseminate practical guidance on Economic Crime Prevention matters and use detailed risk assessments and other intelligence to manage risks in accordance with appetite.
- Set the strategic direction for Economic Crime policy and oversee its effective execution across the legal entity.
- Oversee first line of defence activity in relation to fraud and financial crime, ensuring it is compliant and within risk appetite.
- Lead and manage a high-performing team, overseeing diverse activities and ensuring regulatory compliance through close collaboration with internal risk stakeholders.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of MLRO reporting for IP&I and the FCA, ensuring timely, high-quality submissions and attestations.
- Build and maintain an effective external (the regulator etc) and internal network to identify industry standard process, facilitate deep dive risk reviews - and ensure, legal, regulatory, and professional compliance.
- Modelling behaviours to demonstrate the Group's values and making sure that management of risk is the responsibility of every colleague. A key leadership role within both our IPI and Risk Divisions.
Requirements
- Highly experienced and seasoned Economic Crime Prevention professional with deep knowledge of current and emerging regulatory requirements for Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery and Corruption matters including relevant legislation and guidance (particularly that contained in the prevailing JMLSG Guidance)
- Experience in automating and digitising control environments, integrating innovative tools and platforms to enhance economic crime detection and prevention capabilities in a rapidly changing threat environment.
- Proven leadership skills, including the ability to drive transformation and communicate effectively at senior levels, both internally and externally.
- A strong track record of using data to drive oversight, generate actionable insights, and support strategic decision-making.
- Understanding of Risk Management Frameworks within a financial services organisation.
- Experience of providing constructive challenge and support to 1st Line, and in a Shared Services environment to mitigate risks.
- Proven in navigating ambiguity and adapting with pace to a rapidly changing environment.
- Experience in leading successful teams
- Ability to navigate complexity, think strategically, analysing and synthesizing complex information to make informed decisions.
- Experience of working within financial services and ideally knowledge of Insurance, Pensions, and Investment businesses.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Economic Crime PreventionFraud detectionAnti-Money LaunderingSanctions complianceAnti-Bribery and CorruptionRisk Management FrameworksData analysisControl environment automationRegulatory complianceRisk assessments
Soft skills
LeadershipStrategic thinkingEffective communicationTransformation drivingTeam managementAdaptabilityAnalytical thinkingDecision-makingCollaborationConstructive challenge