Financial Crime Lawyer - Global Bank
- Recruiter
- Michael Page Legal
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 03 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 31 Aug 2017
- Ref
- 13848126/001
- Contact
- Charles Waples
- Job Title
- Lawyer
- Practice Area
- Banking, Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Provide timely, high quality and commercially focused legal and regulatory advice to the business and legal partners on Financial Crime.
Client Details
Global Banking Organisation
Description
- Provide timely, high quality and commercially focused legal and regulatory advice to the business and legal partners on complex anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), financial sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) matters.
- Provide expertise and leadership for significant investigations involving AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC.
- Lead policy efforts for significant AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC issues.
- Interact with key Government stakeholders on AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC issues.
Overall purpose of role
- To provide support on legal issues relating to financial crime, working with other functions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of financial crime risk management within the region and across the Bank, providing an effective oversight of and credible challenge on financial crime issues.
- To help deliver functionally excellent legal advice in relation to financial crime matters, with subject matter expertise in Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing and Sanctions.
- To collaborate with Financial Crime Compliance (Sanctions, ABC, AML, FIU and the MLROs), Compliance (including Regulatory Compliance), Legal (particularly Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement), Audit and the businesses to ensure the delivery of an improved risk management strategy and culture within the region, including supporting financial crime projects, policy revisions and implementation.
- To proactively seek to identify unmanaged risk and emerging trends and help deliver improved controls of sustainable value within the region and to the Bank globally.
- To provide legal support to the Business MLROs and financial crime compliance teams in the region.
- To collaborate with Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement and Financial Crime Compliance in the execution and management of investigations and enforcement actions relating to financial crime issues.
Profile
- Qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, Attorney or equivalent), with experience of two or more of the following:
- Bribery & Corruption laws including the UK Bribery Act and US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act;
- Legal and regulatory requirements in relation to anti-money laundering/terrorist financing and the proceeds of crime;
- Legal and regulatory requirements in relation to international economic sanctions and export controls generally;
- Fraud and other financial crime;
- Court orders;
- Internal financial crime investigations;
- Regulated financial institutions.
Job Offer
Competitive basic salary + benefits