Location: Milton Keynes or Glasgow Salary: £competitive+ £6,000 car allowance + up to 12.5% pension contribution Permanent, Hybrid 3 days/week (12 office days/month flexi) Are you an experienced Financial Crime Assurance professional ready to lead impactful reviews and shape the future of financial crime risk management for a large retail bank? Lorien is proud to be recruiting on behalf of a major UK banking group for two Financial Crime Assurance Managers to join a high-performing second-line defense team.

You'll play a key role in delivering the Financial Crime Assurance agenda, leading end-to-end reviews across a wide range of financial crime areas (excluding fraud). You'll assess the design and effectiveness of controls, validate issue remediation, and provide clear, evidence-based insights to senior stakeholders.

· Lead and deliver assurance reviews from planning through to reporting.
· Evaluate financial crime controls across AML, Sanctions, ABC, CTF, and FoTE.
· Design bespoke test scripts based on risk and control understanding.
· Validate issue remediation and provide assurance on closure.
· Produce high-quality reports and present findings to senior stakeholders (Director level and above).
· Provide leadership and guidance to a team of consultants (no direct line management).

· 3-5 years' experience in a Financial Crime Assurance role (2nd line).
· Strong understanding of financial crime risks, controls, and UK regulations (e.g. MLR, POCA, JMLSG, FCA Handbook).
· Experience designing and executing risk-based test scripts.
· Proven ability to lead reviews independently and manage stakeholder relationships.
· Experience with issue validations is essential.
· Ideally holds or is working towards ICA or ACAMS qualifications (support available to achieve this if don't already hold).

· Exposure to sanctions is a plus.
· Background in banking or financial services preferred.
· Experience mentoring or guiding junior team members.

· Work in a team known for internal progression and development.
· Access to an internal Economic Crime Academy with ICA-endorsed training.
· Support to gain professional qualifications (e.g. ICA, ACAMS).
· Competitive benefits including:
· £6,000 car allowance
· Up to 12.5% pension contribution
· 30 days' holiday + bank holidays
· Private medical insurance
· Bonus potential

· Informal 30-minute coffee chat
· Competency interview with a short task (1.5 hours)
· Final informal coffee chat

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.