Financial Crime Compliance Controls Manager

Job title: Financial Crime Compliance Controls Manager

About the Role The Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function forms part of Marex's Second Line of Defence and provides oversight of First Line of Defence’s financial crime risk management. The Financial Crime Compliance Controls Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the ongoing effectiveness of the firm’s global financial crime control framework, as well as leading the integration of financial crime controls for acquisitions and other relevant business change initiatives. This role sits within Marex’s Global FCC team, supporting a breadth of product and geographical activity across a 40+ office global footprint.

What You'll Do

• Design, maintain, and embed core Financial Crime controls across the Group, including for newly acquired entities and during post acquisition integration
• Payments
• Transaction monitoring
• Sanctions screening
• Fraud detection and prevention
• Crypto monitoring
• Customer and jurisdictional risk assessment methodologies
• Other controls as agreed within Financial Crime Compliance
• Provide robust second line oversight and challenge across control design and effectiveness, including assessing the impact of acquisitions and material business change, advising on remediation priorities, and escalating material risks and issues to senior Financial Crime Compliance management as appropriate
• Own and drive the remediation of Audit, Assurance, and integration-related actions relating to the Financial Crime Compliance control environment, ensuring delivery in line with agreed timelines
• Reporting to the Head of Financial Crime Controls and the Financial Crime Compliance Management team, provide clear and timely status updates on business change and acquisition integration activities, key risks, issues, and relevant management information, including contributions to external reporting
• Engage Technology and other key stakeholders to implement, integrate, and optimise financial crime systems and controls, including during acquisitions, system migrations, and platform rationalisation, ensuring vendor-managed solutions remain aligned to control objectives and regulatory expectations
• Work closely with the first line, including onboarding / KYC and operational teams, to embed financial crime controls during business growth, acquisition integration, and operating model changes, ensuring clear ownership and effective second line oversight and challenge
• Oversee all Financial Crime Compliance considerations arising from business change, including new acquisitions, new products, geographies, delivery channels, and customer types, providing structured risk assessment and control guidance
• Lead and manage Financial Crime Compliance integration for acquisitions and strategic business change programmes, including:
• Project managing and executing post acquisition Financial Crime controls integration
• Conducting structured control and framework reviews, including AML and sanctions assessments, policy and procedure alignment, systems assessments, training requirements, and local regulatory considerations
• Proactive stakeholder engagement (internal and external) to ensure integration requirements are clearly understood and risks are identified and escalated appropriately
• Representing Financial Crime Compliance, where delegated, at governance and integration forums
• Streamlining, harmonising, and embedding Financial Crime controls post acquisition to drive consistency, efficiency, and control effectiveness
• Manage vendor and third party relationships, including those inherited from acquired businesses, ensuring appropriate oversight and delivery of cost efficiencies where applicable
• Assess emerging technologies and tools to support scalable Financial Crime control integration and future business growth

What We're Looking For

• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly when assessing control design, and post-acquisition integration activities
• Exceptional written skills: able to articulate issues and risk precisely
• Organised and methodical, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent acquisition and business change initiatives
• Stakeholder management: has the skills and desire to build relationships with colleagues across the organisation; we are looking for individuals that people enjoy working with