Sanctions Manager

About the roleOur 2nd line of defence Financial Crime team is pivotal in ensuring the Group complies with its sanctions obligations.The Sanctions Manager will have a critical role in designing and implementing the Group's sanctions oversight capabilities and approach, ensuring the sanctions risk is consistently identified and mitigated.The role holder will be accountable for owning and iterating the Group's sanctions policies and working with all business areas to ensure its effective implementation. Equally, the focus will be on ensuring sanctions risk awareness across the Group, through training and communications and ensuring that the risk is considered in the design and ongoing operation of our controls. It will also involve leading conversations with 1st line on emerging sanctions risks and appropriate responses.Location: Coventry or Manchester. Team-led hybrid working arrangements apply.Hours: 35 per week, flexible times across 5 daysOur benefits include:• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme• Annual discretionary bonus scheme• Personal pension with matched contributions• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)About youTo be successful in this role we require the following requirements:Essential:

• You'll have extensive experience of all applicable sanction's regimes including UK, EU and OFAC, within a retail banking environment, within 2nd line or within an escalations / complex case team
• You'll have demonstrable experience of dealing with complex sanctions cases, delivering appropriate guidance on next steps and evolutions to controls as required
• You'll have a strong track record of applying your sanctions experience - evolving policies, responding to horizon scanning, identifying sanctions trends and providing advice and guidance on effective and appropriate controls
• You'll have strong communications and team working skills, working in conjunction with business areas to ensure appropriate sanctions risk awareness.

About usWe're one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.We're officially recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.We're serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you'll build more than just a career with us. All together, better.Flexibility and why it mattersWe understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we'll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role. Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed EmployerWe're proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.