Financial Crime Policy Manager

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Job overview

LocationLocation:
Coventry, Manchester
Working HoursHours:
35 - Full Time
Closing DateClosing Date:
17 Nov 2025
Advertising Salary:Salary Details:
£46,870 - £70,310

Summary

About the role

To ensure that the Group complies with its legal and regulatory obligations and continues to mitigate Financial Crime risk, we are looking for an experienced Policy & Advisory Manager, with a background in drafting policies and standards within a retail banking environment to help shape the Group’s control framework. i.e. to help shape and maintain our control framework.

This newly created role offers the opportunity to shape and innovate the Group’s financial crime control framework. You’ll focus on the design, implementation, and maintenance of policies and standards, ensuring they reflect legal and regulatory requirements and are practical for the business. You’ll also be accountable for providing business areas with advice and guidance, on policy requirements and where complex cases are escalated to 2nd line. You will work with business areas to ensure that policies are effectively implemented and to ensure that requirements are built into new propositions and products as the Group continues to grow. You’ll monitor industry, regulatory and legislative developments to ensure that the Group’s framework remains effective and compliant.

Location: Coventry or Manchester. Team-led hybrid working arrangements apply.

 

About you

To be successful in this role we require the following skills:

Essential:

  • You’ll have extensive experience of all applicable Financial Crime regulation, legislation and peer practice within a retail banking environment, within 2nd line.
  • You’ll be comfortable with how this guidance applies across both personal and business customer types.
  •  You’ll have policy drafting experience, translating legislation and regulation into policies and standards, whilst taking into consideration broader industry practice.
  • You’ll have demonstrable experience of dealing with customer and policy escalations, delivering appropriate guidance on next steps and proposing evolutions to controls as required
  • You’ll have strong communications and team working skills, working in conjunction with business areas to ensure appropriate Financial Crime risk awareness and ensuring policy requirements are considered in new products and propositions.

About us

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us. 

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters
 
We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

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