Financial Crime Systems Manager

We are working with a national financial service firm who are looking for a strong Financial Crime Systems & Strategy Manager to join the team on a 6 month FTC. This role will require 2 days on site in Bradford. Responsibilities Own and optimise financial crime systems, controls and technologies across Fraud, AML, Sanctions and Customer Screening. Lead the ongoing tuning, testing and effectiveness monitoring of transaction monitoring and screening systems. Drive financial crime strategy through data-led insights, analytics, threat intelligence and risk assessments. Identify control gaps, emerging threats and opportunities for system enhancements, implementing mitigating solutions where required. Oversee quality assurance, control testing and governance frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance and operational effectiveness. Produce and present meaningful MI, reporting and recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance committees. Partner with Financial Crime, Risk, Operations, Technology and Change teams to deliver improvements and transformation initiatives. Act as the subject matter expert for financial crime systems, controls and data integrity. Provide leadership, coaching and support to colleagues across the wider Financial Crime function. Essential Strong Financial Crime knowledge and system experience within Financial Services. Subject matter expertise across AML, KYC, Sanctions and Fraud. Experience managing or optimising transaction monitoring, customer screening or other financial crime systems. Strong analytical capability with experience interpreting large and complex datasets. Knowledge of financial crime technologies such as Actimize, SAS, SQL, Business Objects, Tableau or similar platforms.