Compliance & Financial Crime Manager

As the Compliance & Financial Crime Manager at Davies, your role will involve ensuring the company meets all legislative, regulatory, and best practice requirements. You will work closely with business stakeholders and management to design, strengthen, and implement governance controls, policies, and procedures related to regulatory compliance and financial crime. **Key Responsibilities:** **Financial Crime:** - Lead the embedding, strengthening, and maintenance of the Financial Crime Framework (AML, ABC, Counter-Fraud, PEP/Sanctions), including KPIs, metrics, reporting, and escalation processes. - Lead Group-wide Financial Crime risk assessments covering areas such as Anti Bribery & Corruption, AML & Sanctions, ECCTA, etc. - Support, strengthen, and embed financial crime prevention policies and procedures across Davies. - Implement a conduct risk assessment to identify potential financial crime risks. - Refresh ECCTA & Corporate Criminal Offences risk assessments across the Group and support Divisional Compliance Teams with action plans. - Perform financial crime and sanctions checks as required across business and compliance activities. - Support the Group Governance Compliance & Monitoring Plan with inspections and deep-dive reviews. - Work with Divisional Compliance Teams to support investigations into suspected financial crimes. - Stay updated on AML, Sanctions, Fraud, CTF, and related legislation and provide guidance to Divisional Compliance Teams. - Provide concise updates on new requirements issued by regulatory bodies and translate them into practical applications with governance controls. **General Compliance:** - Assist in implementing compliance policies across the Group and engage with senior management to develop new policies. - Ensure policy frameworks and documentation are maintained with complete audit trails. - Support regulatory compliance across various requirements such as FCA, SRA Code of Conduct, Financial Crime, and Tax Evasion. - Collaborate with Compliance Managers to develop and deploy policies and processes. - Build strong stakeholder relationships to promote a compliance culture and deliver high-level advice. - Contribute to compliance training content and ensure effective rollout. - Provide input into regular and ad-hoc governance reporting. - Support compliance-related projects and assist in enhancing the Compliance Framework. **Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:** - Strong knowledge and experience in financial crime compliance within financial services. - Relevant higher education and/or industry qualifications. - Experience delivering global financial crime risk assessments and related projects. - Strong team player with a proactive, hands-on approach and ability to manage risk effectively. - Ability to work independently while contributing to wider projects. - Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills in a fast-paced environment. - Experience working across multiple global jurisdictions with an understanding of associated compliance challenges. - Flexible, solution-oriented mindset with strong planning and organizational skills. - Ability to meet tight deadlines and produce high-quality materials. - Ability to compose and present high-level analytical reporting. - Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. *About Davies:* Davies is a specialist professional services and technology firm partnering with leading insurance, highly regulated, and global businesses. With a global team of more than 8,000 professionals operating across ten countries, including the UK & the U.S., Davies has experienced substantial growth over the past decade. The company focuses on delivering professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, aiming to help clients manage risk, transform, and grow effectively. As the Compliance & Financial Crime Manager at Davies, your role will involve ensuring the company meets all legislative, regulatory, and best practice requirements. You will work closely with business stakeholders and management to design, strengthen, and implement governance controls, policies, and procedures related to regulatory compliance and financial crime. **Key Responsibilities:** **Financial Crime:** - Lead the embedding, strengthening, and maintenance of the Financial Crime Framework (AML, ABC, Counter-Fraud, PEP/Sanctions), including KPIs, metrics, reporting, and escalation processes. - Lead Group-wide Financial Crime risk assessments covering areas such as Anti Bribery & Corruption, AML & Sanctions, ECCTA, etc. - Support, strengthen, and embed financial crime prevention policies and procedures across Davies. - Implement a conduct risk assessment to identify potential financial crime risks. - Refresh ECCTA & Corporate Criminal Offences risk assessments across the Group and support Divisional Compliance Teams with action plans. - Perform financial crime and sanctions checks as required across business and compliance a