Manager
Santander Consumer Finance · Redhill, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Lead a team designing and testing financial crime controls and assurance across customer and third party journeys.
Worth knowing: A recognised Financial Crime qualification is essential
SCUK Risk & Controls Manager (Financial Crime) Country: United Kingdom This is an exciting opportunity to lead a specialist Financial Crime Risk & Controls team at the forefront of protecting Santander Consumer Finance from financial crime, fraud and conduct risks. You'll play a critical role in designing and delivering quality control and assurance frameworks that support regulatory compliance, strong customer outcomes and effective risk management across the organisation. As a recognised financial crime subject matter expert, you'll have oversight of key customer and third-party due diligence journeys, including dealers, brokers, manufacturers and joint ventures. You'll influence business-wide improvements, shape risk-based control frameworks and drive assurance activities across AML, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, terrorist financing and Consumer Duty risks. This role offers the opportunity to lead a high-performing team, work with senior stakeholders across the business and continuously enhance financial crime controls through innovation, data-driven insight and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions. Please note this role is a hybrid role with at least 3 days a week in the Redhill office. Remote workers will not be considered. Please note the closing date for this role will be, end of day, Monday 5th October 2026 Responsibilities will include: Leading a team responsible for delivering Financial Crime quality control, assurance and oversight activities across customer and third-party journeys. Designing and implementing risk-based quality controls covering customer onboarding, ongoing due diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) processes. Providing oversight of financial crime controls including customer risk assessments, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention controls and anti-bribery & corruption controls. Conducting thematic reviews, targeted assurance activity, gap analysis and control testing to assess the effectiveness of financial crime frameworks. Supporting calibration and optimisation of Financial Crime models, including transaction monitoring, screening and customer risk assessment tools. Identifying, escalating and overseeing remediation of financial crime risks, issues, breaches and control weaknesses.
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