(Senior) Business Risk Manager, Financial Crime Center of Excellence, Nordea Finance

Taastrup, DK, 2630 Helsinki, FI, 500

Job ID: 23761

This is an opportunity for you to be part of a newly established Nordic team that focuses on Financial Crime risk management in Nordea Finance. At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on. Compliance and integrity goes hand in hand.

Our team is looking for new colleagues that can be physically present in Copenhagen or Helsinki. In Nordea we work with a hybrid setup that enables remote working up to two days per week Bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

About this opportunity
Nordea Finance Financial Crime Center of Excellence team adds value by securing that Nordea Finance is a safe and compliant financing company to do business with. Our unit’s responsibilities cover oversight, support and development duties in FinCrime area. In this role you will both support local units in Nordea Finance Denmark, but also contribute to Nordea Finance and Nordea Group level projects. Our team aims to further strengthen Nordea Finance processes and risk culture. What you’ll be doing:

• Primary task is to support the CEOs and 1st LoD AML responsibilities of Nordea Finance Denmark and Nordea Finance Finland
• Ensure proactive and professional risk reporting (MI reporting and regulatory reporting)
• Provide professional follow up of residual risk mitigation and performance of outsourced services
• Take active role in FinCrime area projects as key contributor and expert in your area of expertise
• Stakeholder management with risk management colleagues, business line representatives and leaders in Nordea Finance & Nordea Group
• Drive and contribute to projects on a local and Nordic level
• Design and implement controls to secure that processes remain compliant (development of Transaction Monitoring as an example)
• Support and training to Nordea Finance employees and stakeholders
• Facilitation of Financial Crime Risk Forum in the local Nordea Finance legal entity

The roles are based either in Copenhagen, Denmark (Hermes Hus, Høje Taastrup) or Helsinki, Finland (Vallila).

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us. To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have a sincere interest and in-depth competences in the financial crime risk area (KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions)
• Have structured way of working and skillset to escalate correct topics professionally
• Are able to move between the detail level challenges of customer facing teams to senior management discussions about risk management themes
• Have excellent communication skills and ability to engage people
• Are able to present complex matters in clear and professional management reporting
• Are familiar with usage of data as part of risk management work

Your experience and background:

• Minimum 3 years of experience working within Financial Crime area in a bank, financing company or as a consultant
• Strong hands on experience of FinCrime risk management (contributor and driver/project manager)
• Successful deliveries in projects and tasks that require usage of data
• Solid stakeholder management experience
• Track record of representing a risk area with success when interacting with colleagues from 2nd and 3rd LoD
• Fluent in Danish or Finnish, written and spoken
• Fluent in English, written and spoken

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps We are inviting for interviews on a ongoing basis, so please submit your application as soon as possible, no later than 15/05/2024.

For more information, you’re welcome to contact Toni-Mikael Ranta ([email protected]). At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are. Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.