Senior Financial Crime Prevention Manager -12 Month Fixed Term - (5918)

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You’ll be a subject matter expert in anti-money laundering, terrorist financing and financial crime prevention, and be responsible for managing and providing simple to complex advice and resolution to the business to ensure that it is able to meet its regulatory and legal obligations. To note the role is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract.

What You'll Be Doing

• Overseeing and taking responsibility for all aspects of the firm’s compliance with MLR 2017 and other financial crime requirements by ensuring that the firm has policies and procedures in place to protect it from becoming involved in money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions breaches.
• Providing technical supervision and a point of escalation for high risk approvals, including review of CDD requirements.
• Receiving disclosures from partners, employees and consultants regarding possible money laundering or terrorist financing activity and advising and deciding on whether a suspicious activity report (SAR) must be submitted to the National Crime Agency.
• Responding to requests for further information arising from SARs from the NCA and other law enforcement.
• Linking with the firm’s internal audit function and external auditors to ensure that the firm’s compliance with MLR 2017 is audited as required.
• Responding promptly to requests for information from the SRA and/or law enforcement (whilst ensuring that the firm complies with its professional conduct obligations at all times e.g. privilege);
• Undertaking Horizon scanning in FCP and AML areas and ensure appropriate action is taken in response to any new developments
• Educating and presents to the General Counsel Team (GCT) and wider business on FCP/AML matters.

You’ll be a qualified solicitor, and will hold significant and specialist knowledge on financial crime matters. Strong investigative experience and analysis in relation to Suspicious Activity Reporting Experience of successfully dealing with all levels of internal stakeholders. Ability to work in a pressurised environment and to tight schedules. Strong communication skills, ability to articulate and explain complex topics clearly and concisely to non-law professionals.

Benefits

• Excellent influencing skills, with the ability to identify and manage stakeholders.
• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
• We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.
• This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
• We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
• Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose.
• We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
• Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders. We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties. The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws. Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.