Internal Audit Financial Crime & Conduct Manager
RemoteUnited Kingdom or Ireland
Job Summary
Lead audits across financial crime compliance, including AML/CFT, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption, while evaluating control design and operating effectiveness across multiple jurisdictions. Perform risk assessments to prioritize coverage, design control testing for market integrity and conduct risks, and shape multi-year audit plans aligned to Payward's risk profile. Manage concurrent engagements end-to-end, document findings with root cause analysis, and track remediation while applying AI-enabled auditing to expand testing coverage. Partner with Compliance, Legal, and Business teams to present findings to senior management and the Audit Committee, supporting regulatory examinations and monitoring evolving financial crime typologies.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in internal audit, or a combination of audit and financial crimes compliance roles, within financial services
- Direct experience assessing or auditing financial crime compliance programs, including AML/CFT frameworks
- Multi-jurisdiction experience - auditing or assessing compliance programs across more than one regulatory regime, ideally with globally distributed teams
- Strong understanding of financial crime risks, including AML, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption
- Understanding of conduct and market integrity risk, including market abuse, personal account dealing, and consumer protection
- Proven experience executing audits end-to-end - planning, fieldwork, and reporting
- Ability to assess control design and operating effectiveness within complex organizations
- Experience communicating findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Leadership experience, including managing audit workstreams and engagement teams
- Comfortable operating across multiple time zones, partnering with globally distributed compliance, risk, and audit teams
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality
Desired Qualifications
- Relevant certifications: CAMS, CIA, CFE, or equivalent
- Familiarity with crypto, fintech, or digital asset financial crime typologies
- Familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard or Workiva
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