1st Line Head Of Norway Financial Crime Risk Advisory

Danske Bank is devoted to becoming the most trusted financial partner in all markets and work against financial crime. To help direct this aspiring agenda in Norway, we are looking for someone to take on the role Head of 1st Line Financial Crime Risk Norway.

If you have sound technical understanding of fighting financial crime, are used to work with senior management and have a proven previous experience implementing on a strategic agenda and supervising people, you might be the person we are looking for. Working against financial crime, corruption, and terrorist financing in an ever-changing environment together with a highly competent and professional team - this is what we are offering you.

The role

You will become part of a team that provides input to the requirements, develops solutions, and owns the local Financial Crime management agenda; ensuring they are compliant with local regulation and contribute to high-quality customer experience. You will have a firm reporting line to the Leader of 1st Line Financial Crime Large Corporates & Institutions Risk Advisory (in Denmark) and a dotted line to the country leadership locally in Norway. Your role is of utmost importance in driving the global Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) and Sanctions as well as Anti-Bribery & Corruption (AB&C), Tax and Fraud change agenda and ensuring that local requirements across all financial crime matters are always accounted for and prioritised. The position is in Oslo and requires a minimum of 3 days working from the office.

Your principal areas of responsibilities will be the following:

• Ensure that Danske Bank’s global AML / CTF / Sanctions / AB&C / Tax / Fraud standards are implemented in accordance with the Group standard, Norway regulation and market practice.
• Responsible for the team that provides risk advisory services as per the mandate for Large Corporates & Institutional customers in Norway, Finland, and Sweden.
• Collaborate and engage with team members and stakeholders to work towards common goals.
• Partner with the business and 2LoD to ensure risk controls, projects and financial crime management tasks are supervised with the right risk priority, risk profile and within scheduled timetable.
• Consult directly with senior management of Danske Bank Norway and ensure well-informed decision-making and risk prioritisation, including presenting Financial Crime related matters to the Norway governance meetings.
• Function as sparring partner to the country leadership locally in Norway and report progress and issues of high complexity to senior management in a simple and understandable way.
• Engage in dialogues with the local FSA in conjunction with regulatory compliance and 2LoD Financial Crime Compliance and manage regulatory expectations and remediation efforts or action tasks assigned to the position.

About you

It is a pre-requisite that you understand the anti-financial crime area and have a passion for directing others and supporting others achieve goals. You have solid business understanding and collaborating with others comes natural to you. You are result-oriented while keeping focus on the details and the people involved. We value the ability to translate complex regulation into business language and making it understandable for everyone.

You have solid working experience in the financial service industry, working with the regulatory area or in a compliance function and hold a relevant academic degree.

Please submit your application in English.

Why join Danske Bank

You will become a part of a journey to build an even more collaborative, innovative, and engaging culture. A culture where we empower all to take ownership of how we work and how we develop. If you can see yourself thriving in a fun, business-aware and outcome-centric department - now is the time to join!

Join us in securing that, the bank delivers on our commitment to work against financial crime. Please note that we are processing applications on a continuous basis so please apply as soon as possible and no later than 31 December 2024.