Manager, Financial Crime

Overview

In this role you will advise on financial crime risks for OakNorth across second-line functions, helping scale safe growth. You’ll work closely with MLRO and cross-functional teams to assess complex cases and shape risk policy. The role combines advisory duties with opportunities to implement AI-driven risk management improvements. This is a pivotal position in a fast-growing bank that values proactive problem-solving and practical risk leadership.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• private medical insurance
• enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• wellbeing and social events
• volunteering time off
• salary sacrifice schemes

Responsibilities

• Provide advisory on financial crime escalations to second line, including CDD, high-risk cases, PEPs, gifts and entertainment, and sponsorships.
• Apply commercial judgment to enable safe scale and growth.
• Deliver or support BAU items: policy, risk assessment, training, MI.
• Identify and help deliver AI use cases to enhance second-line financial crime risk management.

Key requirements

• Around 5 years’ experience in financial crime within regulated banking or financial services
• Solid grounding across AML, ABC, fraud, and sanctions with ability to advise on complex cases
• Understanding of commercial lending, retail savings and business banking products
• Strong stakeholder skills and ability to build cross-team relationships
• Genuine interest and working knowledge of AI tools for risk management

• stakeholder management
• commercial mindset
• communication
• AML
• ABC
• fraud

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