Financial Crime Product Manager

Excited by the opportunity to build innovative digital retail banking products and services in a start-up environment, backed by one of the leading financial service providers worldwide? As a Financial Crime Product Manager, you will be responsible for leading the development and management of innovative solutions to combat financial crime. Your role will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, compliance, and data analytics, to design and implement products that effectively detect and prevent fraudulent activities. You will conduct market research to identify emerging trends and regulatory requirements, ensuring our products remain competitive and compliant. Additionally, you will engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve product offerings. Your expertise in financial crime prevention and product management will be crucial in driving the success of our financial crime solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive an end to end digital financial crime strategy through implementation of a financial crime program that optimizes client experiences and delivers a best in class framework to prevent and detect financial crime.
• Define financial crime product requirements for all products, channels, customer types and geographies.
• Prioritize the financial crime business requirements, driving delivery of technical solutions by engineering squads.
• Support the completion of compliance monitoring and testing activities, audit reviews and regulatory exams.
• Collaborate with the operational teams on a day-to-day basis by responding to the escalation of operational queries, building controls and processes to support them in their operational tasks as well as empowering them with knowledge, experience and capability.
• Provide expert financial crime advice when working with a wide group of stakeholders within the business to ensure key partners are aware of a potential financial crime risk exposure and considerations.
• Deliver platform stability and create dashboards and key visualization views to drive enhanced reporting and monitoring of risk and control performance indicators which supports us in monitoring platform performance effectively.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Fluent English and German skills.
• Recognized professional qualification in AML/CTF.
• Experience in first or second line financial crime related role, in product, strategy or advisory.
• Background in banking or financial services.
• Experience of delivering in an agile environment.
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills with solid critical thinking, attention to detail and analysis in technical scenarios.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Jira/Confluence experience.
• Excellent written and communication skills with an ability to influence business leaders in a meaningful and actionable manner.
• Strong MI and visualization skills – drive effective reporting and monitoring of financial crime key risk indicators and control performance indicators.
• Able to work autonomously to effect change – flexible, adaptable to shifting priorities; manages competing priorities to achieve the most effective result and able to work in a fast-paced result-driven environment.