Jobs in Southampton, england

About the Business Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK’s best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £116.2 billion in customer investments (as of 30 September 2024). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments : Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us! About the Role

Level : 6

Department : Financial Crime

Location : Southampton / London

Contract Type : Permanent

Non-Regulated

This is a key role within the Financial Crime team, where you will be responsible for bringing change and a different approach in how we protect our Quilter businesses, from being used to facilitate financial crime. In a world where technology, data and automated services continue to grow exponentially, we recognise the need to evolve our financial crime framework, so it continues to be aligned to the risks and opportunities presented. We equally wish to maximise the use of technology, data, and automated services, as key components of our financial crime framework.

If you have experience of designing financial crime frameworks, and have implemented technology solutions to support these frameworks, then this role will be of interest to you.

Key elements of the role

In summary you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and monitoring of financial crime prevention and detection frameworks across all relevant Quilter legal entities.

You will identify opportunities to utilise the most effective and efficient technology solutions as part of the framework, managing third party relationships and ensuring robust and timely delivery of solutions.

Own the relationship with third party technology providers of financial crime detection and prevention solutions, ensuring systems are performing to Quilter expectations and in line with contractual and regulatory / legal requirements.

Represent the Financial Crime team, in providing guidance to the business on financial crime prevention and detection solutions, for new and / or changing strategic business activities.

Lead the Senior Financial Crime Managers and support them with the ongoing updating and maintenance of the Financial Crime policies for the group, in line with all relevant financial crime legislation and obligations.

You will be responsible for the Groups Financial Crime Risk Appetite statements, setting appetite in alignment with business and legal requirements.

Design and carry out Annual Business Unit Risk Assessments that will enable the creation of one overall Quilter Financial Crime Risk Assessment and take ownership for leading / oversight of any actions to address gaps.

Conducting oversight of financial crime legal and regulatory change, identified through horizon scanning and market awareness, and identifying their impact and changes needed to the Quilter businesses. Taking responsibility for ensuring the Quilter financial crime framework is updated in line with external driven factors.

Lead the creation and relevant delivery of financial crime training content on all applicable regulations and legislations to ensure the interests of Quilter and its clients are protected.

Design and provide oversight monitoring of first line businesses, relevant to Financial Crime prevention and detection activities, testing the delivery of financial crime policies and their operational controls and outputs.

Use in-depth knowledge and experience to support colleagues, promoting a climate of continuous improvement and ensuring best practice is applied across the function.

Provide support and mentoring to colleagues, sharing learnings and experience to assist with their professional development.

Risk Leadership

Supporting the “One Quilter Group Risk Function” culture and approach, fostering positive relationships and providing consistent second line challenge and co-ordinating an effective second line function across the Group.

Identifies and nurtures talent to ensure appropriate succession planning within the team, creating an internal pipeline of high potential employees to ensure the delivery of the function’s goals and continuity.

Uses in-depth knowledge and experience to support employees, promoting a culture of curiosity and continuous improvement and ensuring best practice is applied across the function.

This role will lead their team to provide an effective, pragmatic, commercially focused and valued service to the business, recognised for delivering high quality advice, guidance, assessment, challenge and insight. It drives improvements to the engagement, and engagement scores of the team, including by identifying and addressing issues.

About You

You will have :

Proven experience as a Financial Crime Senior leader, at Head of level or MLRO or SMF level, within a regulated financial services firm, preferably in a wealth management business.

Experience of managing, motivating, developing and leading employees in a financial crime prevention function.

Extensive SME knowledge of and the ability to interpret Financial Crime legislation.

Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), with strong stakeholder management & relationship building skills.

A relevant Financial Crime qualification.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

Do the right thing : We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.

Always curious : We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.

Embrace challenge : We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.

Stronger together : Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

Holiday : 182 hours (26 days)

Quilter Incentive Scheme : All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.

Pension Scheme : A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.

Private Medical Insurance : Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.

Life Assurance : 4x your salary.

Income Protection : 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.

Healthcare Cash Plan : Jersey employees only.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.

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