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Financial crime investigationAMLKYCCDDEDD
Requirements
Candidates must have 3-5 years of experience in financial crime, AML, or fraud-related roles within a regulated financial institution. A sound understanding of regulatory requirements and strong investigative, analytical, and communication skills are essential.
Job Description
- Review and investigate escalated sanctions, screening, transaction monitoring, and other financial crime alerts to assess potential financial crime risks and ensure appropriate outcomes.
- Conduct complex financial crime investigations, analysing customer activity, transactional behaviour, and relevant intelligence to identify potential money laundering, sanctions, fraud, or other financial crime concerns.
- Perform AML, KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews for new and existing customers, providing independent challenge and recommendations prior to approval.
- Undertake Politically Exposed Person (PEP), sanctions, and adverse media screening reviews, assessing findings and providing clear risk-based recommendations.
- Review and assess fraud-related matters, including payment and debit card fraud cases, providing oversight, challenge, and guidance to ensure risks are appropriately managed.
- Assess financial crime and fraud risks and determine whether internal escalation, suspicious activity reporting, or other regulatory reporting obligations should be considered.
- Review and respond to information requests from regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, correspondent banks, and other financial institutions.
- Support the ongoing development and enhancement of the Bank's financial crime framework, including policies, systems, controls, monitoring, and governance processes.
- Analyse financial crime data, trends, and management information to identify emerging risks, control weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare management information, reporting, and presentations for senior management, and executive committees.
- Assess the design and effectiveness of the Bank's financial crime controls and recommend enhancements where required.
- Provide advice, guidance, and subject matter expertise to business and operational teams on financial crime and fraud-related matters.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external parties to support the Bank's financial crime risk management framework.
- Support regulatory reporting and compliance submissions as required.
- Remain up to date with changes in AML, sanctions, fraud prevention, and wider financial crime regulations, ensuring regulatory developments are appropriately considered and implemented.
- 3-5 years' experience in a Financial Crime, AML, Compliance, or Fraud-related role within a regulated financial institution.
- Sound understanding of AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and fraud risk management.
- Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to make well-reasoned, risk-based decisions.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to influence and challenge constructively where appropriate.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 8 bank holidays
- Pension scheme, 4% employer contribution
- Private Medical Insurance
- 60-40 Hybrid working after successful probation period
- Free gym access in the building
Skills
Financial crime investigationAMLKYCCDDEDDSanctions screeningTransaction monitoringFraud risk managementRegulatory reportingRisk assessmentAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPoint