Senior Sanctions Adviser (Governance)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Sanctions Adviser which sits within the International Group of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation Team (OFSI).

We are a diverse and friendly team of over 100 people, and we are growing, with multiple roles available across a number of our specialist branches. We offer an outstanding environment to broaden your experience and develop new skills, whilst working on some of the highest profile international issues the UK faces. We support a good work-life balance and flexible working is encouraged.

About the Job
In this role, your key responsibilities are:

• Arranging quarterly governance boards. Planning board attendance and timeframes, commissioning, collating, drafting and distributing papers to the board, producing board minutes and follow up actions.


• Managing quarterly risk return. Coordinating and managing our internal risk register for the senior management team, ensuring it is effectively updated. Further developing risk management processes and procedures to support ongoing operations.


• Managing one range C, whose role will focus on project managing the development of management information, aligning it with our strategy roadmap and ensuring quarterly data dashboards are commissioned, produced, and included with governance board packs.


• Facilitating ongoing updates to our strategy roadmap and maintain delivery planning. Supporting colleagues in considering future direction of the team, strategic planning and feeding into spending reviews.We have a strong team ethos that encourages working collaboratively with each other. There will be opportunities to design and lead on projects which help to shape the future orientation of sanctions regimes.
  
  This is an exciting, fast paced, diverse role, that will provide you with opportunities to work on high profile financial sanctions issues.


This role will suit candidates with an interest in risk and governance or associated fields. Experience of working on financial sanctions is preferable, however, this experience is not essential. We are keen to receive an application from you if you have the right set of skills for the role and have the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the complexities and sensitivities of this area.


• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month


• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)


• Generous parental and adoption leave packages


• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%


• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances