Financial Crime Screening Manager

Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes.  It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We are currently hiring a Financial Crime Screening Manager to join our team.

In this role, you will lead, coach and develop a small team, whose role is to review screening alerts to identify business relationships with a Sanctioned Individual, individuals convicted of a Financial Crime, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) or residing in Restricted/High Risk Jurisdictions.

What you'll be doing

• Overseeing and managing the members and processes of the Central Screening Function, ensuring that all processes adhere to the requirements set by the Group Financial Crime policy, including the configuration of the screening tool.
• Managing the relationship with the supplier Lexis Nexis, covering all services offered by Lexis Nexis utilised by Legal & General, completing activities required by Group Policies and Procedures for all key suppliers.  Developing and overseeing a framework of performance managers across the Divisions within Legal & General.
• Where required, reviewing Sanction, Terrorism, PEP and Enforcement generated alerts to identify and apply a risk rating to confirmed matches. 
• Reviewing Legal & General systems, available data and investigative tools to assist Financial Crime Consultants with their investigations into Internal Referrals of suspicion and Law Enforcement enquiries.
• Producing clear and to-the-point management information for various groups, committees and team meetings. 
• Treating Customers Fairly: taking responsibility to ensure that the needs of our customers internally and externally are met and are in line with Legal and General’s Customer Experience and Treating Customer’s Fairly Policy.
• Managing, motivating and developing employees at all levels, in a manner that is consistent with the Company’s policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement, to maximize the performance of the area.

What we're looking for

• Sufficient commercial perspective and overall knowledge of business sectors in which Legal & General operates and the Legal & General entities involved.
• Awareness of appropriate regulatory requirements in relation to supplier management
• Strong Understanding of Sanction and PEP requirements for UK entities.
• Understanding and experience of UK criminal law and its application to Financial Crime
• Demonstrate ability to maintain effective relationships with management and external parties, such as suppliers and outsourcers, to enable the delivery of practical solutions to problems or the implementation of improved systems, processes or controls.
• Ability to demonstrate a proactive approach while contributing to the development and implementation of a comprehensive screening framework.
• Ability to analyse data within Excel using pivot tables and Vlookup.  Demonstrates the ability to interrogate systems and extract data for the compilation of investigation reports
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure high quality delivery of management information and presentations in meetings and other forums
• Managing supplier relationships and contract management
• Experience of setting up/onboarding and developing supplier contracts and demonstrating continuous improvement
• Ability to engage with and influence internal and external key stakeholders and peers.

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.