Senior Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance

Senior Manager Financial Crime Compliance

London
Reporting to: Head of Financial Crime Europe & SMF17

About the Role

We are seeking a highly capable and strategically minded Senior Manager Financial Crime Compliance to play a pivotal role in safeguarding our European businesses against financial crime risks. This role sits within the AntiFinancial Crime function and carries significant responsibility for oversight framework development and crossfunctional influence.

You will own and maintain the AFC Framework for Europe ensuring that the region operates to a consistently high standard across Policy Governance Risk Assessment Testing and Monitoring. You will also act as a key deputy to the Head of Financial Crime Europe & SMF17 stepping in where relevant to provide continuity of leadership and decisionmaking.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced AFC professional to shape the direction of the Financial Crime programme across multiple jurisdictions and business lines.

Key Responsibilities

Ownership of the AFC Framework (Europe)

• Own maintain and continually enhance the Europe Financial Crime Compliance Framework ensuring it meets regulatory expectations and global standards.
• Lead the development drafting and maintenance of AFC policies standards procedures and guidance ensuring they are clear actionable and aligned to regulatory change.
• Oversee and coordinate the regions Financial Crime Governance including committee structures reporting escalation processes and decision documentation.
• Lead the Financial Crime Risk Assessment cycle for Europe including the BusinessWide Risk Assessment (BWRA) thematic reviews and ongoing risk identification.
• Oversee AFC testing monitoring and assurance activity ensuring effective identification of risks control gaps and opportunities for improvement.

Regulatory and Business Partnership

• Act as a subjectmatter expert for AML/CTF Sanctions ABAC and Anti-Tax Evasion requirements across European entities.
• Support the interpretation and operationalisation of regulatory change ensuring business teams receive clear practical guidance.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders in 1LoD and 2LoD promoting a riskaware culture and ensuring effective execution of AFC obligations.

Deputising for the Head of Financial Crime Europe & SMF17

• Represent AFC Europe in senior governance forums working groups and regulatory interactions when required.
• Provide leadership continuity during absence of the Head of Financial Crime Europe including decisionmaking briefing senior leaders and guiding the AFC strategy.
• Champion AFCs strategic priorities across the business maintaining alignment with global Financial Crime objectives.

Control Environment & Operational Excellence

• Provide oversight of key Financial Crime controls including screening Transaction Monitioring periodic reviews KYC/CDD suspicious activity reporting and customer risk rating.
• Partner with Operations and Technology to ensure policies and standards are embedded into practical workable business processes.
• Drive continuous improvement of MI dashboards data quality tooling and workflow efficiency.

Programme & Change Delivery

• Contribute to largescale Financial Crime remediation and enhancement programmes across Europe.
• Manage interdependencies across regulatory change systems upgrades resource planning and BAU operations.
• Ensure robust documentation tracking and governance of Financial Crime change initiatives.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Extensive seniorlevel experience in Financial Crime Compliance within the second-line in a regulated financial services environment.
• A proven track record of leading complex AFC activities across multiple risk domains (AML/CTF Sanctions Fraud ABAC Transaction Monitoring KYC/CDD).
• Strategic policy development expertise including drafting policies standards and frameworks and ensuring they are successfully operationalised across multiple business lines and jurisdictions.
• Strong leadership and judgment with experience making highimpact decisions advising executive committees and shaping firmwide Financial Crime risk appetite and strategy.
• Deep technical understanding of risk and control frameworks including BWRA RCSAs thematic reviews controls testing assurance methodologies and regulatory risk management.
• Experience engaging with regulators (e.g. FCA CBI other EU regulators) and representing AFC at senior governance forums.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills capable of advising senior executives coaching business leaders and translating complex regulatory expectations into actionable solutions.
• Proven ability to lead crossfunctional programmes including multiworkstream remediation framework enhancement and operational uplift across first and second line teams.
• Experience managing and developing highperforming teams including senior specialists SMEs and managers with the ability to drive culture capability and succession planning.

Desirable

• Experience operating across multiple European jurisdictions and/or global AFC structures.
• Recognised professional qualifications (ICA ACAMS Int. Dip AML or similar).
• Experience deputising for SMF functions or holding SMF17/MLRO responsibilities in previous roles.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.