Senior Project Manager (Financial Crime) – 12 month FTC – 85k-95k
A leading UK financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a critical Financial Crime transformation programme within its Risk & Compliance function.
This role is focused on business change and operational transformation, ensuring Financial Crime controls are effectively designed and embedded into day-to-day operations across a complex, high-volume customer environment.
The role
- Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex Financial Crime transformation programme
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical, operational change across people, process and systems
- Drive adoption and embed new ways of working across frontline and operational teams
- Work cross-functionally across Operations, Risk, Compliance and Technology
- Establish clear governance, reporting and stakeholder alignment to ensure delivery and outcomes
About you
- Proven experience delivering large-scale business change programmes within UK Financial Services
- Strong track record of embedding change into operations, not just designing solutions
- Experience working in regulated environments, ideally with exposure to Financial Crime, Risk or Compliance programmes
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable operating up to senior leadership level
- Ability to lead in complex, matrix organisations and drive change without direct authority
Why this role
This is a high-impact opportunity to play a key role in shaping and embedding a critical control environment, ensuring regulatory requirements translate into real, sustainable operational change.
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A leading UK financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a critical Financial Crime transformation programme within its Risk & Compliance function.
This role is focused on business change and operational transformation, ensuring Financial Crime controls are effectively designed and embedded into day-to-day operations across a complex, high-volume customer environment.
The role
- Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex Financial Crime transformation programme
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical, operational change across people, process and systems
- Drive adoption and embed new ways of working across frontline and operational teams
- Work cross-functionally across Operations, Risk, Compliance and Technology
- Establish clear governance, reporting and stakeholder alignment to ensure delivery and outcomes
About you
- Proven experience delivering large-scale business change programmes within UK Financial Services
- Strong track record of embedding change into operations, not just designing solutions
- Experience working in regulated environments, ideally with exposure to Financial Crime, Risk or Compliance programmes
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, comfortable operating up to senior leadership level
- Ability to lead in complex, matrix organisations and drive change without direct authority
Why this role
This is a high-impact opportunity to play a key role in shaping and embedding a critical control environment, ensuring regulatory requirements translate into real, sustainable operational change.
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