Senior Specialist – Financial Crime Compliance

The Role

We are seeking a highly capable and strategically minded Senior Specialist 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 be responsible for supporting the development implementation and continuous enhancement of the organisations Financial Crime framework. This includes oversight of governance policy management regulatory and internal reporting enterprisewide risk assessments testing and monitoring activities. The role ensures the effective identification assessment and mitigation of financial crime risks across all business lines while maintaining alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practices.

In this role you will

Financial Crime Framework (Europe)

• Help evolve and strengthen our AFC Framework keeping it aligned with global standards and regulatory expectations

• Shape and refine our AFC policies standards procedures and guidance materials

• Keep our governance engine running smoothly from committee packs to escalation pathways and decisionmaking records

• Provide analytical muscle for enterprise and productlevel financial crime risk assessments including BWRA and thematic reviews

• Support oversight of ABAC and AntiTaxEvasion initiatives as we roll out a refreshed operating model

• Play a key role in AFC testing and assurance work: executing tests spotting control gaps and driving followup actions

Regulatory & Business Partnership

• Be a goto specialist for AML/CTF Sanctions ABAC and AntiTaxEvasion across our European footprint

• Help translate regulatory changes into practical businessready processes

• Deliver clear actionable guidance to stakeholders navigating Financial Crime requirements

• Build strong partnerships with 1LoD and 2LoD teams fostering transparency risk awareness and effective issue management

Control Environment & Operational Excellence

• Support ongoing AFC testing and monitoring to identify gaps emerging risks and opportunities for uplift

• Maintain accurate wellgoverned documentation across all AFC activities and reports

• Track remediation actions and validate completion to ensure longterm control improvement

• Work with precision and pace championing consistency quality and continuous improvement

Programme & Change Delivery

• Contribute to AFC change programmes ensuring deliverables meet regulatory and business expectations

• Join crossfunctional working groups to embed Financial Crime considerations into new products systems and processes

• Prepare materials for AFC forums board sessions audits and regulatory touchpoints

• Coordinate project milestones documentation and reporting to keep initiatives on track

What it takes

• Strong understanding of AML/CTF Sanctions ABAC AntiTaxEvasion and wider financial crime frameworks

• Experience in governance policy risk assessments testing or monitoring within Financial Crime or Compliance

• Ability to interpret regulation and translate it into practical business processes

• Sharp analytical skills with the ability to turn complexity into clear insights

• Confident communicator with proven stakeholder management experience across teams and geographies

• Highly organised detailfocused and comfortable juggling priorities in a fastmoving environment

Desirable

• Experience working across multiple European jurisdictions or global AFC structures

• Exposure to crossborder regulatory frameworks

• Familiarity with assurance audit or thematic review approaches

• Professional certifications (ICA ACAMS Int. Dip AML or similar)

• Experience supporting AFCrelated transformation technology or data initiatives

Special Factors

• Vanguard is not offering sponsorship for this position

• This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday)

This role encompasses activities that fall within the remit of UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to UK regulatory requirements in relation to conduct rules regulatory references and the assessment of fitness and propriety knowledge experience and competence. Where appropriate the role may also be subject to approval by the UK FCA.

Why Vanguard

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients.

This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost uncomplicated investments.

Its what we stand for: value to investors.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguards continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients crew (internally employees are referred to as crew) and communities is guided by one simple statement: Do the right thing.

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse inclusive and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguards core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified and we are united in delivering on Vanguards core purpose: to take a stand for all investors to treat them fairly and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to equal employment opportunity

Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race color national origin or ancestry religion gender sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability marital status veteran or military addition Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information as well as any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Vanguard. Please informif you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.

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.