Job Description

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Are you an experienced financial crime compliance professional ready to take on a senior leadership role?
Our client, a leading financial services organisation headquartered in London, is seeking an MLRO to oversee and strengthen its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing framework.
The successful candidate will combine strategic oversight with hands-on delivery, acting as the key point of contact with regulators, driving best practice across the business, and embedding a strong compliance culture.
Essential Skills/Experience:

• Extensive experience in regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering framework oversight, including AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC/EDD, and transaction monitoring.
• Prior exposure to managing Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) and oversight of regulatory filings.
• Strong understanding of relevant UK/EU regulatory landscape (e.g. FCA, AML regulations) and experience implementing / interpreting regulation into policy and process.
• Proven leadership ability - able to influence cross-functional teams (legal, operations, reporting, audit etc).
• Excellent communicator - able to articulate complex issues clearly to senior stakeholders and the board.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, attention to detail and capacity to work under pressure.

Core Responsibilities:

• Leading the design, implementation and continuous improvement of the AML/financial crime control framework: policies, processes, monitoring & reporting.
• Overseeing investigations of potential financial crime, managing SARs, and ensuring timely, accurate regulatory reporting.
• Acting as the key liaison with regulatory bodies and external auditors on matters of financial crime compliance.
• Providing expert advice and training to internal stakeholders to ensure compliance awareness and ownership across the organisation.
• Ensuring oversight of customer due diligence (CDD/KYC/EDD) and transaction monitoring, with robust processes for on boarding as well as ongoing reviews.
• Preparing and delivering regular reports to senior management / board with insight, risk assessments, metrics, emerging themes.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 16234
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