Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to lead FCC oversight for our Iraq Branch. The role will be responsible for managing financial crime risks across AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and Fraud, while ensuring strong governance, regulatory alignment, and effective implementation of Group FCC policies and standards.

The successful candidate will provide advisory support to senior stakeholders, oversee risk assessments, investigations, remediation actions and regulatory reporting. 
This role requires strong knowledge of FCC frameworks, regulatory expectations, client screening, transaction monitoring, CDD, and case management

• Lead and oversee FCC for Iraq, ensuring appropriate controls, governance, policies, processes, and regulatory alignment are in place.
• Provide FCC advisory support across AML, Sanctions, ABC and Fraud, including interpretation of regulatory requirements and escalation of key issues where needed.
• Manage financial crime risk through risk assessments, surveillance, investigations oversight, case quality, remediation tracking, and reporting to senior management/regulators.
• Act as Lead for Iraq, overseeing implementation of Group Policy, training, risk assessment, MI review, audit findings and treatment plans.
• Support regulatory engagement, governance forums, FCC reporting, control improvements, and change/project initiatives related to FCC objectives.

• Strong analytical and investigative skills.
• Stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Ability to collaborate, make sound decisions, manage ambiguity, give clarity, and operate with a strategic mindset.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Professional FCC certification such as ICA, CAMS or CFCS.
• Bilingual Arabic and English capability.
• Strong knowledge of FCC risk .
• 30 years old and above (CB requirement)
• 75 hours of training completed.

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.