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Sanctions Compliance Lead

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Coventry Building Society

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81500.00 GBP / Year
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Job Description:

Our 2LOD Financial Crime team is pivotal in ensuring the Group complies with its sanctions obligations. The Sanctions Compliance Lead 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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Designing and implementing the Group’s sanctions oversight capabilities and approach
  • Ensuring the sanctions risk is consistently identified and mitigated
  • Owning and iterating the Group’s sanctions policies
  • Working with all business areas to ensure effective implementation of policies
  • Ensuring sanctions risk awareness across the Group through training and communications
  • Ensuring risk is considered in the design and ongoing operation of controls
  • Leading conversations with 1st line on emerging sanctions risks and appropriate responses

Requirements:

  • Extensive experience of all applicable sanction’s regimes including UK, EU and OFAC
  • Retail banking experience
  • 2LOD experience or within an escalations / complex case team
  • Demonstrable experience of dealing with complex sanctions cases, delivering appropriate guidance on next steps and evolutions to controls as required
  • 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
  • Strong communications and team working skills, working in conjunction with business areas to ensure appropriate sanctions risk awareness
What we offer:
  • 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)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 05, 2026

Expiration:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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