Grow with UTB

This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office (City of London location) and 2 days working from home. 

Role Purpose:

• To represent the Financial Crime team in projects that impact the Bank’s exposure to financial crime
• To assist the Head of Financial Crime in the selection of any third-party providers used within the Bank’s Financial Crime Control environment. By leveraging technical skills and analytical capabilities, this role controls the development and maintenance of systems that detect and prevent financial crimes, ultimately supporting the integrity of the banking system

Responsibilities:

• Managing and owning the Lexis Nexis RiskNarrative (LNRN) project from a financial crime compliance perspective
• Working with other business units, to identify LNRN project deliverables and timelines
• Support LNRN project plan and monitor closely to ensure successful delivery
• Deliver assigned financial crime compliance deliverables for LNRN project to agreed timelines, scope, and quality
• Identify LNRN project risks and issues and escalate these as appropriate with mitigation plans
• Ensure the LNRN project is delivered to required quality with evidenced testing to support this
• Complete on-going testing to ensure LNRN and other third-party solutions are operating in line with requirements and the Bank’s risk appetite
• Create and maintain appropriate MI to evidence the effectiveness of the controls
• Make recommendations to the Head of Financial Crime on control environment changes to further enhance the Bank’s control environment
• Responsible for acting as the Financial Crime key stakeholder in Bank-wide projects
• Establish good working relationships with relevant project stakeholders for efficient implementation
• Liaise with Lexis Nexis and other third parties to deliver on project components
• Providing regular status updates on progress of LNRN project to Head of Financial Crime and UTB Committees as required
• Support Head of Financial Crime with other ad hoc work and system projects as required

Skills and Experience Sought:

• Experience of compliance system implementations (i.e. LexisNexis Risk Narrative) and development lifecycles, the roles and responsibilities on large projects and the motivations of the various stakeholders involved
• Experience working in a regulated environment (FCA, PRA) and knowledge of the financial crime compliance requirements associated with this
• Experience in documenting requirements, validating functional specifications, drafting testing approach plans and user acceptance test cases
• Understanding of how projects are delivered, including project lifecycle. Ability to understand and document processes using data flow diagrams
• Strong ability to understand and use complex systems and take a logical and constructive approach to investigating and communicating system problems
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all areas of the firm and communicate effectively across all levels
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, high level VBA skills within Excel

UTB is a dynamic and expanding specialist bank that provides solutions to our customers and brokers, which help them achieve their ambitions. Recognised as being one of the most dependable and well-respected Specialist Banks in the UK, we were delighted to see our balance sheet exceed the £2bn mark in 2022.

Exceptional customer service and the ability to provide rewarding deposits accounts and flexible lending solutions have helped us to develop productive and enduring relationships with our customers. We understand that their success is our success and that the quality of our people and teams, is key to delivering special outcomes for them.

We also understand that the performance of our people is directly linked to the culture in which they work. There is a strong sense of community at UTB and as well as promoting a clear set of internal values, and providing a wealth of facilities for training, personal development, and team building, we run a busy and varied calendar of engagement and social activity. Typical recent examples include: Pizza Lunch Days and Coffee Catch-ups; London Marathon and Sahara Challenge Sponsorships; Success Sharing and Value Awards; and Awesome Autumn social events ranging from Theatre Trips, Cocktail Mixology, and Cookery Classes, to Go-karting, Mini Golf and Clay pigeon shooting.

• Competitive Salary and Bonus package
• 26 Days Holiday
• 2 Wellbeing Days
• Contributory Pension
• Life Insurance / Income Protection / Critical Illness cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Season Ticket Loans
• Excellent career development opportunities and where appropriate sponsorship of a relevant qualification

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