Financial Crime Due Diligence Manager

Job Description

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Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Financial Crime Due Diligence Manager

At Centrica, our purpose is to energise a greener, fairer future. Achieving this is made possible through our family of trusted brands and businesses.

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Financial Crime team as a Financial Crime Due Diligence Manager! As a Financial Crime Due Diligence Manager, you will be required to lead the Financial Crime team who have the sole responsibility for assessing the financial crime risks associated with the Group’s third-party relationships. You’ll also support the various Business Units across Centrica in meeting their regulatory and legal obligations, associated with external relationships.

About the Role:

• Inspire, resource, lead and supervise the Financial Crime Due Diligence Team in accordance with regulatory and legislative requirements.

• Provide ongoing assurance that:

  • reviews and monitoring of new and existing third-party relationships remain in governance;

  • the approval framework for high-risk relationships remains effective; and

  • Quality Checking levels within the team confirm adherence to due diligence procedures.

• Work with senior stakeholders across Centrica to ensure that onboarding and reviews are delivered within Service Level Agreements.

• Ensure that procedural and risk assessment documentation are in governance and reviewed annually, or in response to regulatory/legislative changes.

• Coordinate with the second line of defence Financial Crime and Compliance functions to adhere to Policy and Standards.

• MI reporting, as required, whether into Centrica, Business, Committees, etc., regarding the status of work in progress and key risks that need to be managed.

• Use your expertise and knowledge of financial crime laws and regulations, to determine what impact they may have on due diligence activities.

About You:

• Having previously operated in a senior management capacity, demonstrates significant evidence of running a Due Diligence team to standards expected by the FCA.

• Demonstrates significant management and leadership capabilities.

• Demonstrates an expert understanding of the regulatory and legal environment and is able to apply into day-to-day role.

• Demonstrates the required gravitas and influencing skills to support senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrates the ability to diplomatically challenge and/or stand the ground against challenge from senior stakeholders to outcomes of reviews.

• Demonstrates sound collaboration with peers, team members and internal stakeholders. Fosters good working relationships across Centrica Business Units.

• Articulately communicates practical information for onward distribution to business partners verbally or in the written form.

• Quickly identifies requirements and/or resources needed for relevant tasks and re-focuses them effectively when circumstances change.

• Facilitates team members own development of their knowledge, skills, and capabilities.

• An understanding of the energy sector will be an advantage.

What’s in it for you:

If this sounds like a good match for your skills, experience and what you’re looking for as a next step, we’d love to hear from you! In return, we will offer you:

• Competitive salary and bonus potential.

• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap.

• Pension scheme.

• Company Funded Healthcare Plan.

• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days.

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance.

• Colleague-led networks which aim to empower & support colleagues from underrepresented groups.

Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world, for everyone.

#MoreThanACareer

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.