At Secure Trust Bank, we’re on a mission to become the most trusted specialist lender in Britain—and that means keeping our customers, colleagues, and communities safe. We’re looking for a passionate and technically skilled Risk & Control Manager to lead the way in financial crime assurance and help shape a safer financial future.
About the Role
As our Risk & Control Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in testing and monitoring the execution of our Financial Crime Policy and Standards. You’ll be the go-to expert for second-line assurance of financial crime screening and monitoring systems, working closely with the MLRO and risk owners to ensure our controls are robust, effective, and aligned with regulatory expectations.
This is a high-impact role where your insights will directly influence how we manage risks across Retail Finance, Deposits, and Business Finance products. You will have broad experience across a range of specialist systems and the technical skills required to test rules and support system changes.
What You’ll Be Doing
Overseeing first-line operations for Transaction Monitoring and Customer Screening systems
Assessing risk typologies and refining rule sets and parameters
Collaborating with AML and Financial Crime teams across the business
Designing and executing assurance plans to monitor economic crime risks
Conducting thematic reviews and producing clear, actionable reports
Supporting system change assessments and advising on risk implications
Ensuring action plans address root causes and drive continuous improvement
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong interpersonal skills. You’ll thrive in a collaborative environment and be confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels.
Essential Experience & Skills:
Proven experience in financial crime systems and oversight
In-depth knowledge of UK AML, CTF, and Sanctions regulations
Hands-on experience with screening tools, ideally ComplyAdvantage, Bridger, Trans Union and Sira
Familiarity with SQL or SAS databases and analytics
Strong communication skills—able to translate complexity into clarity
A team player who leads by example and champions high standards
How you will be rewarded
Along with your salary, you will also get;
At Secure Trust Bank you will not be a small cog in a big wheel, you will have the autonomy to use your skills and experience to drive our business forward and have a tangible effect on our success.
As a business we celebrate achievement and have a range of generous recognition schemes that reward both individual and team successes. We offer excellent in house training and development schemes and a range of external qualifications to enable your progression and career development. Every single member of our team has a personal development plan to help them achieve their goals, whatever their career ambitions.
How we work
We are a hybrid working business and we recognise that teams need time together to work collaboratively and to inspire creativity but sometimes deep work requires a different environment therefore office attendance is purpose led. this role has the flexibility to be based in either our Solihull, Cardiff, Manchester or London offices, some travel will be required to our Solihull Head Office.
Everyone is different. Everyone is valued
As part of our vision to become the most trusted specialist lender in the UK, we’ve been helping customers and businesses fulfil their ambitions since 1952. In that time, we’ve learned that we’re more than the sum of our parts. We’re a strong Group because of our people and our strengths; specialist, expert, ambitious and also diverse. All of our people are different and this is something we celebrate.
Every one of our employees brings unique talent, ability and perspective to their role.
That’s why Secure Trust Bank Group nurtures differences. We understand that we perform better because we’re not cast from the same mould. We actively embrace and support diversity, work with leading industry bodies and promote initiatives that reinforce our philosophy of giving you the freedom to be who you are.
We’re an award-winning bank providing savings accounts and lending services to over one million customers. We’re Secure Trust Bank Group. We embrace difference.
V12 Retail Finance Technology is constantly transforming the retail sector and we’ve been at the cutting edge of retail finance from the start offering pioneering, multi-channel access and functionality. We don’t believe in standing still and we’re always looking for new ways that our smart technology can work even smarter to delight your customers. Part of the Secure Trust Bank family, we also have the financial backing to make our pricing, products and services work for you. And, our customer first culture means we understand what will make your customers keep coming back time and again.
Secure Trust Bank is the only UK bank awarded a Customer Service Excellence accreditation. We arrange and administer retail finance loans on behalf of Secure Trust Bank PLC, who is the lender. Secure Trust Bank PLC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
