Financial Crime, Sanctions and Export Control Compliance Lead

1 Month ago • All levels • Financial Analysis

Job Summary

Job Description

Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance Limited (RRPF) is seeking a Financial Crime, Sanctions, and Export Control Compliance Lead. This full-time, hybrid role based in London involves overseeing financial crime, anti-money laundering (AML), export control, and sanctions compliance for the company. The Lead will be responsible for developing and maintaining policies, managing systems, and shaping compliance strategy to ensure adherence to laws and regulations. Key duties include conducting risk assessments, overseeing daily operations like due diligence and transaction monitoring, investigating suspicious activities, and reporting to stakeholders and the Board. The role requires extensive experience in AML, export control, and sanctions compliance, preferably within financial services, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with relevant systems.
Must have:
  • Excellent knowledge of UK/EU financial crime, AML, export control, and sanctions regulations.
  • Extensive experience in AML, export control, and sanctions compliance.
  • Strong knowledge of risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
  • Technical understanding of risks in asset finance and leasing.
  • Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
  • Familiarity with screening, fraud, and transaction monitoring systems.
  • Strong teamwork, communication, and attention to detail.
Good to have:
  • Relevant certifications like CAMS or ICA.
  • Experience or interest in leasing and aviation industries.
Perks:
  • Excellent development opportunities
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Employee support assistance
  • Employee discounts

Job Details

Job Description

Financial Crime, Sanctions and Export Control Compliance Lead

Full-time

London/Hybrid (3 days on-site per week at Buckingham Green)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Financial Crime, Sanctions and Export Control Compliance Lead to join Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance Limited (RRPF), a joint venture company between Rolls-Royce PLC and GATX Corporation comprising of 19 joint venture entities in the UK, 18 entities in the US, 2 in Malaysia, 1 in China and 1 in India.

In this role, you will oversee our financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance activities and export control and sanctions compliance. RRPF is a jet engine leasing company with the largest global portfolio of Rolls-Royce aero engines, providing medium and long-term spare engine leasing and bespoke financial solutions to airlines, aircraft lessors and OEMs. We support over 50 customers worldwide with a portfolio of over 500 jet engines.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We deliver the best jet engines in the world and every great product needs a great business behind it. We’re proud to be part of the pathway to net zero as we power society for generations to come.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

This interesting and challenging role will allow you to use and further develop your knowledge and experience in anti-money laundering, export control and sanctions compliance while working in a world-class engineering and manufacturing environment.

What we offer:

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

In this interesting role you will be responsible for:

  • Compliance Oversight: Fulfil statutory obligations as Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for RRPF under UK legislation

  • Compliance Oversight: Development and maintain financial crime and anti-money laundering policies and controls for RRPF and Rolls-Royce plc.

  • Framework Management: Ensure our financial crime and anti-money laundering, export control and sanctions systems evolve in line with regulatory changes and business risk profiles.

  • Strategic Compliance Leadership: Shape and lead the firm’s financial crime and export control and sanctions compliance strategy to ensure adherence to all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies. 

  • Risk Assessment: Conduct and maintain an enterprise-wide risk assessment to identify key risks and develop strategies for mitigation.

  • Daily Operations: Oversee financial crime, export control and sanctions frameworks, including risk-based due diligence, transaction monitoring, and suspicious activity reporting (SAR).

  • Due Diligence: Manage enhanced due diligence for high-risk customers and engage with senior stakeholders as needed.

  • Investigation and Reporting: Act as the designated officer for investigating and reporting suspicious activities to the National Crime Agency (NCA).

  • Governance Updates: Prepare and present financial crime, export control and sanctions updates to internal governance structures and complete the annual MLRO report for the Board.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. And for this role, key qualifications/experience include:

Essential:

  • Excellent knowledge of the UK and EU financial crime, anti-money laundering, export control and sanctions regulations.

  • Extensive experience in anti-money laundering, export control and sanctions compliance,      preferably within financial services.

  • Strong knowledge of financial crime, export control and sanctions risk assessment and     

  • mitigation strategies.

  • Technical understanding of risks associated with asset finance and leasing.

  • Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to present reports to stakeholders.

  • Familiarity with systems for screening, fraud monitoring, and transaction monitoring.

  • Strong teamwork, communication skills, attention to detail, and a positive attitude.

Desirable:

  • Relevant certifications such as CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or ICA (International Compliance Association).

  • Experience or interest in the leasing and aviation industries is a plus.

  

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Job Category

Finance

Posting Date

23 Jul 2025; 00:07

Posting End Date

31 Jul 2025

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