BCB Group - Financial Crime QC Lead

• QC Governance and Oversight • Take responsibility for the end-to-end Financial Crime and Onboarding QC framework for BCB Group, including standards, calibration, and escalations. • Define and maintain the QC methodology (including sampling, scoring, and documentation) in line with Group policy, regulatory guidance, and internal risk appetite. • Provide challenge on identified shortcomings and financial crime risk issues, ensuring a timely remediation process and clear accountability. • Lead analysis of QC findings, drive corrective actions, and ensure BCB Group remains both audit and regulatory compliant. • Quality Control and Review • Perform detailed quality reviews of Fraud/TM/KYC processes across a range of risk levels. • Assess accuracy and consistency against the QC checklist and scoring criteria, as well as internal policies and regulatory requirements. • Ensure all casework meets internal and external standards and support challenging conversations on findings. • Coaching & Improvement • Work with the Financial Crime team to ensure timely completion of reviews and processes and support prioritisation of workloads to meet team objectives. • Provide constructive feedback and coaching to team members. • Identify recurring issues and themes, escalation trends, and recommend solutions at operational and technological levels. • Support the development of quality standards, guidance, and training. • Stakeholder Management • Engage with the Onboarding and Financial Crime Teams, including investigators, managers, and executives. • Clearly articulate and justify QC decisions, particularly when challenged. • Build strong working relationships to support a collaborative culture. • Process Change • Contribute to process enhancements and efficiency initiatives across the team. • Understand developments in UK and EU Law to support changes in the function. • Provide input into process improvements, policy updates, control frameworks, and system improvements. • Support implementation of regulatory or internal change initiatives. • Experience managing a QC function in a FinTech or start-up environment. • Experience as a financial crime investigator or analyst. • Proficiency handling wide sets of data and presenting key findings. • Confidence in communicating to key stakeholders. • Desired: Experience working with Chain Analysis.