Financial Crime Optimisation Delivery Manager

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week or 40% of working time in the office; locations are Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh, UK.

Salary: £67,023–£74,470 per year.

Company

hirify.global is transforming its technologies, workplaces and services as a major UK financial services organisation.

What you will do

• Lead multiple concurrent Consumer Financial Crime change initiatives from mobilisation through implementation and transition into business as usual.
• Develop and manage project plans, milestones, dependencies, budgets, resources and integrated delivery roadmaps.
• Manage governance, stage gates, risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies in line with delivery frameworks and standards.
• Coordinate operational, business, platform, technology and delivery-partner teams, driving decisions and resolving issues.
• Lead project meetings, working groups and forums, providing status reporting and executive updates.
• Plan operational impacts, implementation readiness and go-live activities while tracking benefits and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading complex projects end to end, from initiation and planning through implementation and benefits realisation.
• Experience managing delivery plans, governance, stage gates, risks, issues and dependencies with a focus on successful outcomes.
• Experience building relationships, influencing at senior level and bringing cross-functional teams and delivery partners together.
• Experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, KYC, Sanctions, Economic Crime or Risk, with understanding of operational processes, controls and regulatory expectations.
• Ability to assess operational, customer, risk and control impacts, solve complex delivery challenges and make sound decisions.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, including balancing competing priorities and providing clear updates to senior audiences in a regulated environment.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering Financial Crime transformation across Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, Customer Due Diligence, Investigations or Fraud operations.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled change with platform, engineering or technology teams.
• Experience in operational readiness, implementation or business change.
• Experience in process improvement, optimisation or process consultancy, including Lean or Six Sigma approaches.
• Project or change management qualifications such as PRINCE2, APM PMQ or Agile Practitioner.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time permanent role with a 35-hour working week and hybrid working.
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, learning and development, and workplace adjustments.
• Pension contribution of up to 15%, annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Adaptable lifestyle benefits, including discounted shopping.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global careers portal; roles may close early due to high interest.
• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process, and eligible applicants may receive an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.