Senior Manager, Financial Crime Business Optimisation

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chester, Belfast, Manchester or Leeds, UK.

Salary: £85,493–£100,580 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a UK banking group focused on finance and supporting customers, colleagues and communities.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of Financial Crime and change specialists, setting priorities and allocating resources according to risk.
• Represent Financial Crime across business-led change, defining requirements and translating policy, regulation and risk appetite into practical solutions.
• Lead Financial Crime change across business and platform roadmaps, resolving barriers and influencing priorities and delivery.
• Provide expert advice and constructive challenge on complex financial crime, risk, control and change matters.
• Lead change governance, ensuring material change is visible, appropriately prioritised and escalated when leadership intervention is needed.
• Use data and insight to improve controls, simplify processes, strengthen operational resilience and support decision-making, including the controlled adoption of technology and AI.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of financial crime risk and controls, including interpreting policy and regulatory requirements and converting them into practical change requirements.
• Experience managing complex business or regulatory change from impact assessment and requirements definition through governance, delivery and embedding.
• Strong risk judgement and critical-thinking skills, with confidence making or recommending decisions in complex, uncertain or contested situations.
• Experience building effective relationships across business, operations, risk, change and technology teams.
• Ability to manage a broad portfolio, prioritise resources according to risk and value, and maintain delivery focus across competing demands.
• Ability to turn complex information into clear recommendations, governance updates and executive-level narratives.
• Demonstrated people leadership, including defining goals, mentoring peers, developing skills and fostering an inclusive, responsible team environment.
• Confidence working with data and management information to identify patterns and clarify delivery, operational and control impacts.
• Customer-focused approach that considers customer outcomes alongside risk, control, regulatory and operational requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with agile delivery methods or change-management tools.
• Experience developing or applying AI-enabled or emerging technology within a controlled business environment.
• Experience designing or improving change governance, portfolio reporting or impact-assessment processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, with an environment focused on learning and development.
• Reasonable workplace adjustments, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.
• Pension contribution of up to 15%, annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• Adaptable lifestyle benefits, including discounted shopping.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Hiring process

• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.
• Applicants meeting the minimum criteria who have a disability, long-term health condition or are neurodivergent may be guaranteed an interview through the Disability Confident Scheme.