Sarah Anderson-Large
Solihull,UK
Summary
A highly motivated professional with proven leadership and coaching capabilities, supported by excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrates strong organisation and time management, with advanced proficiency in performance testing and data analysis using tools such as Hawkin Dynamics, GymAware, and Catapult GPS. Possesses solid IT proficiency across Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and is certified in Lubas Medical First Aid for Sport & Exercise (September 2023).
Combines a strong academic foundation in sports science and physical training with practical experience assisting athletes in achieving performance goals. Well-versed in exercise programming, injury prevention, and motivational techniques to optimise athletic performance and long-term development.
Currently seeking a role as a Sport Scientist or Strength and Physical Performance Coach, where I can apply my technical expertise, analytical approach, and passion for athlete development within a high-performance sporting environment.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Economic Crime Advisory Senior Manager
Nationwide Building Society
2023.02 - 2026.03
- Senior Economic Crime Advisory Leader specialising in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Terrorist Financing (TF) and Proliferation Financing (PF) advice and risk management. I lead a team of four Advisory Managers supporting seven retail business areas across customer-facing, digital and back-office channels. I provide advice, oversight and challenge on the design and operation of key AML/TF/PF controls, ensuring risks, issues and non-compliance are identified, escalated and effectively mitigated.
- In recognition of my leadership impact, I received four separate annual award nominations and was shortlisted by the risk function in the Growth Champion category.
- Delivered major ID&V and CDD remediation outcomes
- Led and influenced key remediation deliverables including testing and multiple governance submissions ensuring successful progression through senior approval forums.
- Drove strategic alignment across multiple product changes and VM Integration
- Challenged the lack of 1LoD engagement, highlighted SIRA workaround risks and clarified data and customer impact issues, shaping clearer ownership, sequencing and cross-functional governance pathways.
- Strengthened advisory quality and governance standards
- Developed and implemented QA frameworks, peer review expectations. Enhanced advisory Procedures and shared-drive governance, improving traceability and elevating the overall quality and consistency of advisory output.
- Improved organisational risk culture through clear, pragmatic challenge
- Provided decisive escalation on MiTek gaps, FSCS reporting issues, ID&V ownership gaps and breach management delays, enabling quicker, more informed decisions by senior leaders and reducing blind spots across the business.
- Demonstrated excellent people leadership, coaching and capability uplift
- Delegated meaningful ownership of key workstreams including ID&V and CDD transition to BAU, mentored team members and played a central role in recognition and Team champion engagement initiatives, contributing to my shortlisting in the NBS Annual Awards.
- Delivered consistently high-quality outputs across a large, complex portfolio
- Completed all BWRA reviews, governance submissions, DWB updates, strategic papers and remediation deliverables to deadline and to a high standard, frequently deputising for my Senior Leader and ensuring continuity through high-pressure periods.
Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager – Consumer Advisory
Secure Trust Bank
2021.11 - 2023.02
- Function as the subject matter expert to provide advice on financial crime related issues across the consumer businesses. This includes savings, retail and motor lending and debt management services. Responsible for ensuring the formulation, implementation and execution of financial crime policies and standards to ensure the business adheres to regulatory requirements and its internal risk appetite. Function as a delegated MLRO & Nominated Officer for approval of complex SAR investigations, PEPs, Sanction payments and high-risk customers.
- Delegated MLRO and Nominated Officer responsibilities, including performing financial crime and fraud related investigations and providing appropriate 2LOD feedback, advice and approval where required.
- Lead the financial crime transformation program for 2LOD advisory, including overseeing the implementation of customer risk assessment and transaction monitoring technologies and methodologies.
- Responsible for ensuring AML and other financial crime policies and standards are implemented across consumer business units, supporting a robust financial crime framework across the group.
- Accountable liaison point between consumer businesses and MLRO, providing financial crime risk advice and guidance on current and emerging risks and threats.
- Own and conduct AML and financial crime threat assessments and gap analyses against FCA enforcement notices and other significant guidance to ensure fraud and financial crime gaps were understood and any remedial actions were tracked through correct governance forums.
- Provided financial crime risk advice on a number of concurrent projects including digital savings experience, customer risk assessment implementation and buy now pay later v12 solution ensuring both internal and regulatory compliance.
Assistant Director – Risk Management
EY (Ernst & Young)
2020.07 - 2021.11
- Manage the Board Risk Profile team responsible for maintaining and further developing the EY UK risk solutions and technology infrastructure, including monitoring and reporting of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. A risk specialist, covering a range of topics including financial crime, commercial risk, information loss, regulatory compliance, and other principal risk areas.
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting the Board Risk Profile including the Risks, Risk Drivers, Controls, Key Risk Indicators, Impacts and Risk Appetite metrics.
- Accountable liaisons point between client serving teams and EY UK’s board risk management strategy, providing insight to the client serving / opportunity teams on how EY manages risks at the board level, how EY UK’s RM supporting systems are used and how EY UK RM systems could be reused / enhanced / ported to support client opportunities.
- Created successful business cases including gaining approval for a c£50k infrastructure spend and £42K uplift in resource to enhance the BRP resilience capabilities.
- Using analytics, review risks and data, advising on sourcing of additional data to support and enhance the BRP, challenging risk appetite ratings and impact scores where appropriate.
- Interpretation and communication of Board and Business requests into technical requirements for the wider team to action.
Vice President – Financial Crime Advisory
Barclays Bank
1998.08 - 2020.03
- Delegated MLRO, responsible for leading and managing a team of five in all areas of financial crime investigations, compliance advisory, oversight, and assurance across Barclays UK.
- Provided second line financial crime advice and guidance to senior executives and annually to FCA providing evidence of regulatory adherence.
- As delegated MLRO approved new or amended products and processes, PEP’s, policy dispensations, waivers, and breaches.
- Assessed implications of new, existing, and emerging regulatory requirements relating to Compliance, Anti Money Laundering, Anti Bribery and Corruption and Sanctions. Ensuring development of communication, training strategies and implementation of projects to close gaps.
- Created and implemented financial crime oversight MI for digital innovation and mobile payment product areas including an inhouse challenger brand within Barclays. Ensured regulatory compliance whilst also being able to understand potential threats due to product changes.
- Project managed multiple remediation and regulatory changes including implementation of mobile payments risk-based framework, middle name remediation & implementing high-risk models to ensure compliance and avoid regulatory impacts.
- Received significant positive feedback on the creation of a robust governance model ensuring that any issues, were formally tracked through the correct internal governance frameworks. Ensured both internal and regulatory compliance.
Assistant Vice President – Information Risk Management
Barclays Bank
2015.01 - 2017.01
- Accountable for the implementation and delivery of both tactical and strategic annual record destruction and disposal/hold agendas.
- Embedded policy adherence and key changes throughout the UK Bank (c30,000 staff) through training, presentations, communication, and senior stakeholder management and functioned as project management lead for information risk area.
- Successfully delivered multiple projects simultaneously leading to £206k per annum cost savings by driving paper destruction plan whilst ensuring adherence to current records management policy and standards.
Assistant Vice President – Continuous Improvement & Automation Team
Barclays Bank
2013.01 - 2015.01
- Managed a team of 5 Continuous Improvement Analysts, to design and deliver client-driven automation and robotics opportunities. Consulted with third party vendors including IBM and Blue Prism to deliver innovative technical solutions to reduce the burden of resource heavy processes. Reducing headcount costs by delivering on robust project plans incorporated impact assessments and benefit predictions.
Fraud and Financial Crime Operations Training Manager
Barclays Bank
2009.01 - 2013.01
- Managed a team of up to twenty training facilitators. Defined policy and threat-based training strategies within AML, Sanctions and Fraud Operations. Designed and delivered technical training for onshore and offshore staff based in Noida (India), supporting the banks relocation strategies to benefit cost reductions and increase profitability.
Education
Degree Equivalent NVQ Level 5 - Business Management and Leadership
Skills
- AML regulations expertise
- Advanced analytical thinking
- Communication skills
- Leadership
- Inclusive decision making
Certification
- Advanced Certificate in Managing Sanctions Risk – ICA Completion March 2023
- Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention – International Compliance Association
- Diploma in Anti Money Laundering– International Compliance Association
- ICA Specialist Certificate in Money Laundering Risk in New Technology
- ICA Certificate in Compliance - International Compliance Association
- Prince2 Project Management Foundation & Practitioner
Accomplishments
- Created a financial crime consumer advisory lead role that provided demonstratable benefits across business units, and within 2LOD financial crime team. Benefits included the implementation of a robust 2LOD governance framework, enhanced 1LOD oversight & communications, providing consistent updates and horizon scanning into financial crime forums. Risk orientated reviews to ensure regulatory adherence whilst managing burdensome operational transaction monitoring volumes. Implementation of customer risk assessment methodology as part of a financial crime transformation project. Provided greater visibility to MLRO across all Consumer FLOD financial crime metrics.
- Managed the team responsible for implementing the EY UK Board risk profile reporting strategy to better understand current and emerging risk landscape enabling risk-based decisions at the highest level.
- Combatted key financial crime threats including, illegal lotteries and money mules through targeted MI, risk analysis and implementation of strong controls. This resulted in reduced fraud losses and enhanced transaction monitoring rules.
- Created and implemented risk, compliance and financial crime Key and Lead Risk Indicators (KRI’s & LRI’s), providing product specific financial crime oversight for the first time. Resulting in regulatory compliance and data to inform key fraud and financial crime threats.
- Project managed regulatory change and remediation projects, including implementation of payments risk-based framework & methods of identifying high-risk propensity of customers ensuring regulatory requirements met on time and budget.
- Achieved £206k per annum cost savings via determining balance between cost of record retention and regulatory record disposal hold requirements.
Sarah Anderson Testimonials
- Sarah is an extremely knowledgeable professional. She has a huge wealth of knowledge, AML, and regulatory experience. Sarah is an exceptional stakeholder manager supporting the business with development of new innovations. Her responsibilities include MLRO sign offs providing regulatory advice and guidance. Sarah is highly motivated, and self-delivers to a high standard. Overall, Sarah is an excellent team player and has excellent leadership skills.
- Sarah is unbelievably knowledgeable in all things Fin Crime. She is so supportive/ patient to all members of the team. She puts the customer first (whether that is internal or external customer). It is a pleasure to have Sarah as a stakeholder and I cannot recommend her enough for any future roles/ business.
- Sarah assisted me greatly in offshoring activity into India, spending six weeks training there in the process to make sure that the end product was superb. Sarah has an innate way of achieving results in the right way, with the right blend of humor, humility and assertiveness, Whichever firm manages to acquire Sarah is a seriously lucky one.
- I really enjoy working with Sarah. I believe Sarah to be a highly valuable & highly motivated colleague that has excellent knowledge and understanding of the financial crime risks on the business activities we work on together.
- Sarah is a font of knowledge when it comes to anything to which she is assigned. She looks at all situations from a customer, colleague, and risk perspective prior to making decisions/suggestions for change and is a fantastic stakeholder to work alongside.
- Sarah is a motivated, forward thinking, and intelligent individual who has exceptional expertise in understanding what is best for both the customer and the organisation. She was an inspiring person with a positive attitude, it was a pleasure to work with her! I would not hesitate in recommending Sarah for a variety of roles!
- Sarah is brilliant. A highly talented individual who passionately cares about her work, delivering consistently to great effect
Timeline
Economic Crime Advisory Senior Manager
Nationwide Building Society
2023.02 - 2026.03
Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager – Consumer Advisory
Secure Trust Bank
2021.11 - 2023.02
Assistant Director – Risk Management
EY (Ernst & Young)
2020.07 - 2021.11
Assistant Vice President – Information Risk Management
Barclays Bank
2015.01 - 2017.01
Assistant Vice President – Continuous Improvement & Automation Team
Barclays Bank
2013.01 - 2015.01
Fraud and Financial Crime Operations Training Manager
Barclays Bank
2009.01 - 2013.01
Vice President – Financial Crime Advisory
Barclays Bank
1998.08 - 2020.03