Financial Crime Policy Lead

A fantastic new opportunity has arisen for a Financial Crime Policy Lead to join our growing Financial Crime Team.

This is a high-impact role at the heart of our efforts to ensure strong regulatory compliance, effective risk management, and good customer outcomes. As a subject matter expert, you’ll be responsible for staying ahead of the evolving financial crime regulatory landscape and shaping how we respond to it.

🔎 What you’ll be doing:

• Interpret complex and emerging financial crime regulations (e.g. FCA, JMLSG, FATF) and assess their impact on the Society’s operations.
• Translate external requirements into actionable internal guidance and clear, practical advice for business areas.
• Contribute to policy development and ensure alignment across systems, controls and risk assessments.
• Engage proactively with stakeholders across the business to support and influence change projects and strategic initiatives.
• Provide oversight, challenge and assurance on key financial crimes risks and regulatory requirements.
• Escalate significant issues to the Head of Financial Crime where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain detection rules within the Jade transaction monitoring platform and other key financial crime systems.
• Optimise thresholds and scenarios to balance detection effectiveness and false positive rates.
• Collaborate with IT, operational teams and external clients to test implement changes.
• Support the production of board-level papers discussing complex regulatory issues.
• Ensure smooth handovers to the wider Financial Crime team for ongoing monitoring and support.

🧑‍💻 What we’re looking for:

• A skilled and credible financial crime professional with a deep knowledge of the UK regulatory environment.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and implementing complex financial crime legislation, guidance and best practices.
• Strong understanding of financial services products, including mortgages, savings and protection.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• A confident communicator, capable of providing clear advice and assurance at all levels.
• Strong proficiency in MS Word and Excel.
• A proactive, customer-focused mindset with a passion for doing the right thing.

✅ Desirable Competencies:

• Experience configuring and managing transaction monitoring, screening or fraud detection systems.
• Previous experience working with external clients and system owners to implement rules-based controls.
• familiarity with Jade or similar transaction monitoring platforms.

Ready to take the next step in your financial crime career?
Apply now and help us build a safer, stronger financial future.

If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team at -recruitment@principality.co.uk

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