GFCC Corporate Functions (Policy and Standards Advisory)

Join M&G, a leading international savings and investment business. As a key member of the Group Financial Crime Function, you will provide expert financial crime oversight and advisory support across the Group Financial Crime Framework, with a focus on Corporate Functions. You will work closely with stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, and Corporate Functions to develop and enhance financial crime governance, risk appetite, training, and regulatory obligations frameworks. This role offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional development.

• Act as the primary Financial Crime adviser to Corporate Functions, building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and providing advice, guidance and challenge on the interpretation and practical application of Group and UK Financial Crime requirements.
• Support Corporate Functions in identifying, assessing and managing financial crime risks, providing appropriate challenge and oversight to ensure risks are understood, mitigated and managed within appetite.
• Provide Financial Crime advisory support and challenge to Corporate Functions initiatives, projects and transformation activities, ensuring financial crime risks are identified and addressed appropriately throughout the change lifecycle.
• Extensive subject matter expertise across AML, CTF, ABC, TEF, sanctions, fraud prevention and wider financial crime regulatory requirements and industry expectations. (Essential)
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders in Corporate Functions, providing credible advice, challenge and influence on risk, regulatory and control-related matters. (Essential)
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and judgement capabilities, with the ability to assess complex financial crime risks and provide practical, risk-based recommendations and solutions. (Essential)
• Strong experience supporting the design, implementation and embedding of financial crime frameworks, including policies, standards, governance arrangements, training programmes, escalation processes and management information (KPIs, KRIs, data and analytics). (Essential)
• Significant financial crime experience, with a strong understanding of financial crime risks, control frameworks and regulatory expectations within the asset management and/or insurance sectors. (Essential)
• Demonstrable experience coordinating complex programmes of work, managing competing priorities and supporting the delivery of key initiatives within a Risk, Compliance or Financial Crime environment. (Essential)
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence outcomes across Corporate Functions while maintaining effective independent oversight and challenge
• Proven experience operating within a Group Financial Crime, Compliance or Risk function, including governance, policy implementation, risk oversight and stakeholder engagement. (Essential)
• Experience coaching and developing colleagues within a risk, compliance or financial crime environment
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging effectively across Compliance, Risk, Operations, Technology, Corporate Functions and business stakeholders
• Experience providing leadership, coaching and oversight within a specialist function, including supporting senior management in the delivery of team objectives and priorities. (Essential)
• The ability to operate effectively in a complex organisation, balancing strategic priorities with detailed technical and regulatory considerations
• Demonstrable experience in developing, maintaining or enhancing financial crime risk and control frameworks and associated methodologies
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex regulatory and risk matters clearly and concisely to senior management, committees and Boards. (Essential)