Financial Crime Risk Officer

Are you an experienced financial crime risk/compliance professional with high integrity, energy, eagerness to learn, and passion for preventing financial crime? Are you ready to be an active contributor in making financial crime related issues a visible and integrated part of the business and customer journey? If yes, this position could be your next career step!

We are looking for an experienced Financial Crime Risk Specialists to join our team in 1st Line Financial Crime Risk to work on ensuring integrity across the Danske Bank’s participation in financial markets and in society. In this role, you will contribute to meet the financial crime related regulatory requirements and the bank’s ambitious goals to comply with the relevant laws and regulations with your experience and knowledge. The position is located in Oslo or Trondheim.

Some of the key responsibilities for the positions will include:

• Contributing to the development of financial crime related requirements, controls, and assuring compliance with regulatory requirements
• Ensure and further develop appropriate governance structures and oversight of the financial crime risk area in the Norwegian Branch
• Ensure internal reporting (such as financial crime risks, Group Financial Crime Plan, quarterly AML/CTF reports), compliance and internal audit observations, and participation in relevant steering groups 
• Identify, assess and minimize financial crime related risks
• Oversight of AML and Fraud transaction monitoring, scenarios, rules, and systems
• Contributing in the annual risk assessment process
• Building and carrying out awareness training in the area of financial crime
• Ongoing regulatory reporting to the NFSA

As part of our unit, other financial crime related risk-mitigating tasks are a part of your responsibilities as well. These may vary depending on your interests and experience.

Your toolkit for the role

Collaboration. The job requires collaboration in Financial Crime Risk unit locally and globally but also with local business units, branches, legal entities and compliance. Good collaborative stakeholder management skills are necessary.

Communication. Since many stakeholders are involved and dependent on our high quality advice, it is important to communicate openly and clearly.

Content knowledge. The tasks require having expert level knowledge and understanding of different local Norwegian laws and regulations related to financial crime. With this in mind, a relevant degree and previous experience of financial sector and financial crime is required.

Integrity and determination. The guidance and instructions provided by the unit can potentially have great impact on the business but also for the overall risk exposure. It is important to make sure that the results are correct and risks and controls are well assessed.

Readiness to learn. We operate in a fast pace and in a constantly changing regulatory environment. Willingness to stay up-to-date with the latest regulatory changes, industry best practice, and readiness to learn are highly required. Capability to work independently and proactively with the ability to search and find new information, assess and evaluate it and put it into practice is vital in this role.

Language skills. Fluency in English and Norwegian – both spoken and written – is necessary in this role.

Thrive and develop in a dynamic workplace

You will become a part of a journey to build an even more collaborative, strong, innovative and engaging culture in Danske Bank. A culture where we encourage each other to take ownership of how we work and how we develop to enable both professional and personal growth. We also offer you high-quality employee benefits such as lunch, sports and cultural benefits, as well as many other benefits from our partners. If you can see yourself thriving in a fun, ambitious, business-aware, and outcome-centric department now is the time to join!

Find out more about Danske Bank as an employer and career opportunities from Danske Bank at https://danskebank.com/careers 

Is this your future position?

Great, we look forward to hearing from you! Send your CV and application by 28 February 2023.

For additional information about the position, please contact Carl Olsson, Head of 1st Line Financial Crime Risk Norway, either by phone +47 40346009.