Head of Financial Crime Monitoring

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We’re recruiting for a Head of Financial Crime Monitoring to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary, 12% car allowance and good benefits package.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading the Financial Crime Risk Monitoring and Risk Assessment programmes, creating and delivering a comprehensive, risk-based assurance and monitoring framework
• Overseeing the FCR Risk Assessment process, ensuring integration into monitoring programmes and policy frameworks
• Tracking all Financial Crime risk events and issues across L&G divisions, entities, and jurisdictions
• Acting as the Financial Crime subject matter expert, producing and delivering a risk-based Financial Crime oversight plan and framework
• Ensuring Legal & General’s consumer duty obligations are considered in financial crime controls to ensure fair treatment of customers
• Managing, motivating, and developing employees at all levels to maximise performance
• Collaborating with Policy & Advisory to integrate risk assessments into the policy framework
• Producing high-quality output in line with company strategy

Who we're looking for:

• Relevant commercial or professional qualifications with significant experience
• Good knowledge of Insurance & Assurance, Investment Management, and other Financial Services
• Sufficient commercial perspective and overall knowledge of business sectors in which L&G operates
• Strong understanding of financial crime policies and procedures, including Sanctions, AML/CTF, Fraud, ABC, CCO, Insider Dealing, and Market Abuse
• Significant experience in risk-based monitoring and assurance frameworks
• Proven experience in leading people and teams
• Experience in producing financial crime reports and management information for board-level stakeholders
• Ability to lead a team of AML experts

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.