Financial Crime Operations Senior Specialist

This role is responsible for strengthening the Financial Crime control framework, ensuring controls are effective, operating as intended, and aligned with regulatory expectations. Acting as a subject matter expert, the role partners with the wider business, and external vendors to provide specialist advice, support training and capability-building, and oversee the monitoring and escalation of potentially suspicious activity. The position also ensures ongoing compliance with evolving regulatory requirements and supports the business in maintaining a robust and effective internal control environment.

What You'll Do:

Lead & Manage Complex Control Projects

• Manage control initiatives of broad scope and complexity across divisions.
• Develop and implement internal control frameworks, including control identification, design, implementation, and testing.
• Identify control gaps and recommend actions to strengthen effectiveness.

• Act as a subject-matter expert on complex control-related issues, offering analytical support and guidance.
• Provide advanced level consulting to the business on internal and external audit activities and results as well as risk mitigation initiatives in response to audit findings.

• Produce and distribute management reporting and KPI-driven insights.
• Maintain documentation of findings, lead investigations arising from exception reporting, and escalate issues where appropriate.

• Build strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Share best practices and communicate effective control solutions across teams.

• Provide education and influence around audit and control matters to promote awareness and compliance across the organisation.

• Keep up to date with risk and control trends across the industry and within the organisation.
• Assess the applicability of emerging practices to improve operational resilience.

• Participate in special projects and support broader operational initiatives as required.

• Significant experience in anti-money laundering (AML) controls, financial crime compliance, or internal controls management.
• Bachelor's degree (B.Com/BBA/LLB) in Commerce, Finance, Business Administration, or Law - or a Master's degree/diploma in Compliance, Risk Management, or Finance.
• Professional certification such as ICA Advanced Certificate, CAMS, or equivalent (preferred).
• Strong capabilities in risk analysis, financial crime risk assessment, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, reporting, and training delivery.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position