LOCATION: LONDON, BRISTOL OR EDINBURGH

In this position, you’ll be based in any one of the above office locations for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

Other skills & experience include:

• Knowledge of technological solutions (e.g. Governance, Risk and Control systems, fraud prevention systems) would be an advantage.
• Up to date knowledge of current trends in fraud prevention and identification, e.g. insights and legislation.
• Excellent written skills and strong verbal skills.
• The confidence to exercise judgment based on best practice and previous experience.
• Leadership/Management experience is desirable. Remote management experience would be an advantage given that the team members will be spread around the globe

A ROLE YOU WILL LOVE

The Principal Financial Crime Officer reports into either the Global Head of Fraud Operations or the Global Head of Fraud Assurance and is accountable for ensuring the FCU respond to all escalated alerts/notifications.
Providing adequate incident response activities, such as promptly closing down fraudulent activity, commencing recovery of losses (where possible), communicating with stakeholders, and tracking incidents.
Being the Regional FCU liaison point for the business in support of the Head of Fraud Operations & Head of Fraud Assurance during live fraud incident investigations or active assurance reviews.
The post holder will be representing the Global Fraud leaders by ensuring relevant data is provided to the business to enable swift decision making in terms of managing client relationships during an incident or taking remedial action during an assurance review.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Identifying control absences and weakness, finding the root cause of fraudulent activity.
• Proposing short, medium and long term remediation recommendations agreed with the business.
• Documenting the outcomes of significant incidents, following the FCU’s global investigation procedures.

• Proposing and enabling second line detective controls.Train and mentor junior team members ensuring adequate knowledge and skills exchange occurs.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE ROLE?

This role requires great organisation skills and an excellent eye for detail to ensure a high level of accuracy in written documentation.
Experience of fraud/financial crime investigations and/or assurance in either a first or second line role in financial services, legal or law enforcement sectors, is required to understand the environment in which this role operates.
Negotiation and influencing skills are required to ensure that the business understand and respond to assurance activity. There may be occasions where the business has other priorities so the ability to deal with challenging situations is a must. There equally may be occasions where the business require support from the FCU with little advance warning. The ability to be flexible is essential as the role holder will need to communicate with colleagues around the world and may be required to attend meetings outside of the standard working hours.

Other skills & experience include:

• Knowledge of technological solutions (e.g. Governance, Risk and Control systems, fraud prevention systems) would be an advantage.
• Up to date knowledge of current trends in fraud prevention and identification, e.g. insights and legislation.
• Excellent written skills and strong verbal skills.
• The confidence to exercise judgment based on best practice and previous experience.
• Leadership/Management experience is desirable. Remote management experience would be an advantage given that the team members will be spread around the globe.

If you have the experience we are looking for and the flexibility to collaborate across our Global network we want to hear from you!