Business Unit: Group Risk
Salary Range: circa up to £56,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote – UK Flexible
Contract Type: Permanent

Live for the weekday. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team 

We’re looking for a Risk MI & Insights Senior Specialist to support us in our contribution to the Virgin Money purpose: to protect customers and stop bad people doing bad things through our firm.

Our team supports several key areas of 2LOD Economic Crime Risk, including the Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA), change management, regulatory reporting, monthly reporting and governance, insightful analysis and the many BAU aspects of running a team.

We are looking for a proactive MI and Insights Senior Specialist to lead the development and maintenance of 2LOD EC MI, support data quality improvement initiatives and provide insights on the EC risk profile of the bank. 

What you’ll be doing

Building MI & Insights Capability by: 

Managing the development and maintenance of Economic Crime (fraud, sanctions, anti-money laundering, etc) MI and dashboards using PowerBI/Query and Excel to support reporting by managers and senior leaders, ensuring issues are escalated as required. Responsible for developing and owning the 2LOD MI which provides insight to the 2LOD stakeholders and helps the bank to effectively manage economic crime risk (fraud, sanctions, anti-money laundering, etc) and protect its customers. Conducting regular reviews of metrics and thresholds, including Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) metrics, by engaging with stakeholders and escalating issues where appropriate through governance to ensure MI is kept relevant to changing risk requirements. Providing insight on changes to the EC risk profile of the bank by analysing MI and available data, engaging with stakeholders where gaps exist and cleansing data where required. Supporting the 1LOD Hub and change programmes with data quality improvement initiatives and ensuring that 2LOD requirements are considered.  Use own knowledge to provide subject matter advice, appropriate challenge and escalation where necessary. Ensuring appropriate governance documentation is in place and maintain this documentation as MI requirements change. Leading on the MI and data requirements for projects within the Governance and Insights team including owning the Model requirements for the BWRA, including data manipulation, ad hoc MI requests, support reporting requirements. Supporting wider team governance requirements such as the providing input to the monthly board reporting cycle.  Working closely with various teams/projects including the BWRA project, change projects, 1LOD Hubs, 2LOD teams to understand evolving MI requirements and data quality challenges. 

We need you to have

Demonstrable advanced PowerBI and excel experience and knowledge Proven experience leading the development of MI Previous experience working in a Financial Crime environment (i.e. sanctions management, AML, ABC) Expert in creating written reports using multiple sources to provide insightful commentary supported by MI The natural ability to professionally manage stakeholders and form effective relationships with stakeholders across the organisation. 

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

Experience working within financial services Hold a relevant professional and/or financial services qualification e.g. Chartered Banker or Diploma/Advanced Certificate in AML or equivalent financial crime prevention qualification.

Red Hot Rewards

Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more. Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.  20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.  Market-leading pension. Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance. Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. 

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants. 

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.