Senior Manager – Financial Crime Screening Strategy & Capability (Financial Crime)

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week or 40% of working time at office sites in Birmingham or Glasgow, UK

Salary: £85,493–£100,580 per year

Company

hirify.global is a major UK banking group focused on helping Britain prosper and shaping the future of financial services.

What you will do

• Define the future end-to-end financial crime screening strategy and capability roadmap across people, processes, controls, data, technology, and operations.
• Prepare screening capabilities for digital finance, instant payments, and shorter screening and decision-making timescales.
• Set the strategic direction for analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation to strengthen controls and improve decision-making and operational performance.
• Define future controls, capability standards, and the Target Operating Model for screening.
• Align senior stakeholders across payments, technology, risk, and operations on priorities, investment needs, and change sequencing.
• Translate strategy into delivery-ready briefs with clear outcomes and measures, while using industry and technology-provider insights to inform future direction.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in financial crime screening, including sanctions and screening politically exposed persons.
• Strong understanding of evolving industry expectations and the complete end-to-end screening process, including operational delivery.
• Proven experience shaping strategy and future capability through roadmaps, innovation, and organisational responses to industry change.
• Strong strategic leadership and influencing skills, including bringing senior stakeholders together across business, technology, risk, and operations to drive decisions.
• Ability to translate external developments and strategic direction into capability requirements, investment priorities, target outcomes, and delivery briefs.

Nice to have

• Experience defining future financial crime controls, capability standards, or operating models at scale.
• Experience developing strategies for artificial intelligence, automation, or advanced analytics to improve controls, decision-making, or operational performance.
• Experience with digital finance, instant payments, or other emerging payment technologies.
• Experience building relationships through industry forums, peer organisations, or technology providers and applying those insights to strategy.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on diversity, belonging, and reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
• Pension contribution of up to 15% and an annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Discounted shopping, 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and parental leave policies.
• Permanent, full-time employment with hybrid working.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global careers portal.
• Confidential or sensitive information is requested only after a formal interview invitation or verbal offer, when background checks are conducted.