OakNorthManager, Financial Crime
OakNorth is hiring a Manager, Financial Crime for a remote role open to applicants in United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on OakNorth.
Level's read on this job
- Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions financial crime, aml and compliance among its tools and skills.
- OakNorth has 23 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
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Manager of Financial Crime at OakNorth to provide second-line advisory and help identify and implement AI use cases for risk management.
ABOUT US
At OakNorth, we're on a mission to empower the UK's most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we've lent over $21 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing bank known for challenging the status quo. We're not looking for just another cog in the wheel — we want bold thinkers and proactive self-starters who are eager to shape their own careers while supporting the UK's most driven business leaders.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Financial Crime team sits within the second line of defence at OakNorth Bank, operating across all areas of the UK and US business. We're a lean, high-accountability function that covers the full spectrum of financial crime risk and we work closely with the business to make sure OakNorth grows in a safe and sustainable way. The team advises, challenges, and enables — not just polices. We're also at an exciting inflection point, actively building out our use of AI to modernise how second-line risk management works in practice.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Manager, Financial Crime is a mid-senior advisory role reporting to the MLRO. This is a great opportunity for someone with solid financial crime foundations who is ready to take on broader scope, build meaningful stakeholder relationships, and grow their impact across a dynamic, regulated environment.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Provide advisory on financial crime escalations to second line. This will include CDD, high risk situations, PEPs, gifts and entertainment, sponsorships and more — exercising sound judgement on complex matters and escalating appropriately.
Bringing commercial and balanced mindset to everything you do, enabling safe scale and growth
Supporting and/or leading the delivery of BAU delivery items – policy, risk assessment, training, MI: the good stuff!
Identify and help deliver AI use cases that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of second-line financial crime risk management. Help take us to the next level of AI-nativeness!
YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU HAVE…
Around 5 years' experience in financial crime within a regulated banking or financial services environment
A solid grounding across AML, ABC, fraud, and sanction (and the regs that underpins them), with the confidence to advise on complex cases across multiple themes
Understanding of commercial lending, retail savings and business banking product sets.
Great stakeholder skills — you're comfortable engaging with the business and operations and building relationships across teams
A genuine interest in and working knowledge of AI tools and how they can improve risk management in practice
WHAT WE OFFER
25 days holiday plus personalised benefits — opt in to what matters to you
Subsidised private medical insurance with Bupa
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Wellbeing and social events, plus in-house Barista Bar in the London office
Volunteering time off to support causes that matter to you
Salary sacrifice schemes — cycle to work, nursery, gym, and electric car scheme
How we rate this
Manager, Financial Crime at OakNorth rates 50 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where financial crime was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where aml was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where compliance was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where risk management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where stakeholder management was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Financial Crime, Aml, Compliance, Risk Management, and Stakeholder Management. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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