Financial Crime Manager

Eila Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Financial Crime Manager to join their FinTech client team. This role focuses on supporting the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) in managing Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF), sanctions, fraud, and a broad spectrum of financial crime risks across the organization. The ideal candidate will have over eight years of relevant experience, with strong expertise in financial crime systems, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation within the financial services sector. This position requires a proactive approach to identifying, assessing, and addressing financial crime risks by working closely with cross-functional teams and regulatory bodies to ensure the organization's compliance posture remains robust and responsive to evolving threats. In this role, you will contribute to continuous improvements of the company's financial crime prevention framework, oversee investigations and risk assessments, monitor transaction and sanctions screening systems, and prepare detailed reports for senior leadership. Although this position does not include team management responsibilities, the role demands strong stakeholder engagement, effective project management capabilities, and expert communication to collaborate across departments such as Compliance, Operations, and Technology. The Financial Crime Manager will take ownership of vendor relationships, financial crime system implementations, and upgrades, ensuring that technologies and controls align with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
Responsibilities

Support the development, implementation, and enhancement of AML, CTF, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime policies and procedures.
Identify, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks related to products, operations, and markets to protect the organization from regulatory and reputational harm.
Monitor ongoing regulatory changes and provide timely guidance to internal teams to ensure full compliance with financial crime legislation.
Assist the MLRO by preparing and submitting Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and other mandatory regulatory filings.
Lead and manage thorough financial crime investigations, driving them to timely conclusions while maintaining compliance with legal standards.
Oversee transaction monitoring systems, sanctions screening tools, fraud detection mechanisms, and other relevant financial crime technology implementations to ensure effectiveness.
Prepare and present management reports, risk assessments, and performance updates on financial crime controls and incidents to senior leadership and relevant committees.
Coordinate and support internal and external financial crime audits, regulatory examinations, and compliance reviews to address identified gaps promptly.
Collaborate closely with Compliance, Operations, Technology, and other internal stakeholders to remediate compliance deficiencies and strengthen control environments.
Manage vendor relationships related to financial crime system providers, including overseeing system implementations, upgrades, and ongoing enhancements to meet operational needs.
Conduct regular risk assessments to gauge the effectiveness of existing financial crime controls and recommend strategic improvements.