Manager Financial Crime Compliance (Non-Transactional)

The Division

Financial Crime Compliance (FCC).

The role sits within FCC, which forms one of the three Divisions within UKEF’s Legal, Environmental & Social and Compliance Group ("LEC").

FCC’s primary purpose is to assist the Department in identifying, understanding, managing and mitigating risks related to financial crime. FCC provides advice to the Department in respect of these risks and in support of UKEF achieving its commercial objectives.

About the Role

As a Financial Crime Compliance Manager, you will support the development, maintenance and embedding of UKEF’s Financial Crime Compliance framework. You will play a key role in ensuring that UKEF identifies, understands, and effectively mitigates its financial crime risks. This includes leading aspects of policy development, assurance, risk assessment, and capability building across UKEF.

You will work closely with colleagues across FCC, LEC, and the wider Department, as well as engaging with external stakeholders including other government bodies, industry representatives, and international partners.

The role post-holder will be expected to play a key role in the following:

• Ensuring that staff across FCC, across UKEF, and across key stakeholders have the appropriate skills and knowledge to understand, manage and mitigate UKEF’s financial crime risks.
• Ensuring that internal and external stakeholders are assured that these risks are understood and are being managed effectively.
• Ensuring that changes in the financial crime landscape that may impact on UKEF are anticipated, and to consider and formulate appropriate responses.
• Ensuring that the UKEF FCC framework is understood and embedded across UKEF. This includes ensuring that the strategy, policies and procedures are up to date and implemented. They will be expected to work closely with colleagues in FCC and across the Department to achieve this
• Supporting the delivery of the annual Financial Crime Risk Assessment conducted by FCC, as well as internal Assurance activity.
• Ensuring any financial crime reports made to the Division are considered appropriately.
• Working collaboratively across the team to ensure that the Division performs the full range of its activities both effectively and efficiently.

Main Activities

Policies, Processes and Procedures

• Contribute to the ongoing and periodic review of UKEF policies relating to Financial Crime, to ensure that they are fit for purpose, effectively operated, and consistent (as appropriate given UKEF’s role and remit) with best practice from across both Government and industry.
• Ensure that processes and procedures to support the implementation of UKEF policies and practice (including the FCC Manual and other internal documentation) are created as necessary, agreed by stakeholders, updated, and maintained to a high standard of clarity and consistency.
• Provide UKEF senior management with high quality written and oral analysis and advice in relation to policies, processes and procedures, and their application, taking into account the commercial deadlines to which UKEF operates.
• Play a role in the production and interpretation of Management Information / Key Risk Indicators, its reporting to stakeholders and the formulation of plans to address any issues arising from it.
• Play a role in the obtaining of external advice in line with Government procurement guidelines as may be required from time to time.
• Contribute to ensuring UKEF compliance with the GovS013 Counter Fraud Functional Standard.

Transactions

• Develop an understanding of UKEF’s approach to transactional due diligence and its relevance to policy, risk, and assurance workstreams.
• Provide support if needed to colleagues working on transactional cases where issues relate to policy matters, ensuring consistency between transactional and non‑transactional aspects of FCC.

Training

• Play a role in formulating and delivering UKEF’s internal training programme in respect of Financial Crime Compliance.
• Take an active role in ensuring that training resources both within FCC and for other areas of UKEF are developed and maintained to a high standard, reflecting the financial crime risks that UKEF is subject to.
• Seek feedback on the training provided and make recommendations for improvements as needed.
• Encourage and facilitate a culture of continuous professional development in FCC, seeking and promoting relevant learning opportunities.

Risk assessment and assurance

• Prepare documentation for, and assist in the review of, UKEF’s Financial Crime Risk Assessment. Making proposals for any necessary amendments to UKEF policies, etc, which result from that Assessment, and ensure their effective implementation.
• Contribute to internal assurance activity by FCC, to ensure that policies and procedures are followed across the Department.

Financial crime reports

• Contribute to the review and consideration of reports made through UKEF's Financial Crime Reporting Framework or via the Department's Whistleblowing and Raising a Concern Framework where such reports relate to financial crime compliance matters.

Stakeholder engagement and external representation

• Engage with stakeholders across UKEF to support the understanding and embedding of the FCC framework.
• Where appropriate, represent UKEF and FCC in engagement with: other government departments and public bodies
• industry, including exporters and financial institutions
• other Export Credit Agencies
• Contribute to FCC’s transition to an “intelligence‑led” operating model.

The list of main activities is not exhaustive; you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business need.

• Relevant qualification (International Compliance Association or equivalent) (A)
• Evidence of continuing professional development (A)

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

The application must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Please ensure that you read through the Candidate Information Pack attached to this advert, before applying.

All applications will be sifted against our essential criteria outlined in the personal specification.

• Qualification: Relevant qualification (International Compliance Association or equivalent) (A)
• Evidence of continuing professional development (A)
• Statement of suitability - you should fully articulate in 750 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack.

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

• Experience - Application and Statement of Suitability

In the event of a high volume of applications, an initial sift will be carried out on the following essential criteria:

• A full understanding of the areas of Financial Crime of most concern to UKEF, and ways to mitigate the risks to UKEF (A,T,I)
• Technical knowledge of good practice in the area of Financial Crime (A, T, I)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders, including the ability to draft concise written recommendations (A,I,T)

If you are successful following the sift stage, you will be invited to complete a technical exercise, this will be in an essay style format, the details will be provided to the relevant candidates, and this will be a topic agreed by UKEF.

If you are successful following the technical exercise, you will be invited to an interview, to be held onsite at 1 Horse Guards Road, this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours / Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all four behaviours highlighted in Appendix 1.
• Technical - you will be assessed across your technical expertise and acumen, in relation to the essential criteria Technical Questions

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

TimetablePlease note that the interview dates are indicative.

Closing date for applications

Sunday 06 September 2026 @ 23:55

Notification of outcome of application

w/c 07 September 2026

Completion of Technical Exercise

w/c 14 September 2026

Interviews in Westminster, London or via MS Teams

w/c 12 October 2026

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.