Governance and Control Manager - Economic Crime

Our Economic Crime team have a key new role as we look to further understand and then enhance the outcome of our members and key stakeholders' interactions with our Economic Crime team and the broader Society. This is a 12 month opportunity.

The Governance and Control Manager role will look at all aspects of Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, and Bribery & Corruption through the application of a strong customer approach underpinned by the requirement to deliver fair outcomes and meet all of our regulatory requirements, including Payment Services Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act, Money Laundering Regulations, Bribery Act and Immigration Act. Through leading the governance assessment and testing within the area, this role will be key in influencing the ongoing enhancements to our economic crime journeys.

This role will be responsible for both the ongoing development of the program, which is part of the Society’s Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Frameworks, and being the face of Economic Crime to stakeholders outside of the area. It will have responsibility for important stakeholder management at all levels across the Society, including providing Secretariat duties for a range of Economic Crime Risk committees and Working Groups.

It will also provide ongoing support across the full range of activities carried out in the Economic Crime Risk & Control team. These include Education & Awareness, Management Information in addition to a range of Risk & Control activities.

As this is a new role a passion to influence the creation and ongoing continuous improvement of the governance and risk testing, and wider support activities will be vital.

For this role you’ll be able to demonstrate a passion for the delivery of customer centric economic crime decisions that also ensure compliance to our regulatory requirements as well as being an experienced risk practitioner from an economic crime environment. Having experience and understanding of the fraud and economic crime investigation process, policies and procedures including but are not limited to Education & Awareness, Provision of Management Information and Governance & Control activities.

You’ll be able to act as a subject matter expert on the policies, procedures and best practises used within Economic Crime 1st and 2nd Lines of Defence.

To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:

• Recent experience of operational risk framework
• Experience of leading others and be able to demonstrate proactive coaching and management.
• Evidence of working with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to persuade and influence upwards.
• Experience of secretariat duties and good attention to detail 
• An ability to interpret complex issues, good communication and strong decision making skills
• Integrity is a must: you’ll be reviewing activities from a wide cross section of departments and will need to show discretion and maintain total confidentiality at all times.

Desirable experience will be:

• Economic crime responsibilities, with practical experience of fraud investigations.
• Strong experience in both development and delivery of outcome testing would be beneficial
• Change and project management and process improvement experience

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)