Description:
The Financial Crime Screening team supports various aspects of the customer journey such as onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and event based review. We conduct due diligence on our customers making fair and proportionate risk based decisions on their behalf.
What You’ll Be Working On
You will report to a Financial Crime Team Manager as part of a team of 12 working on complex EDD processes alongside supporting escalations cross domain.
🔑 You’ll play a key role by...
- Reviewing high priority or complex tasks, such as enhanced due diligence (EDD), conducting open source investigations where required.
- Answering escalations from Investigators and other colleagues from across the business, and, if required, escalating these further to Ops Analysts.
- Coaching colleagues on our FinCrime Screening tasks including supporting our global partners.
- As a subject matter expert in the domain that you work you will proactively use your own experience to improve the knowledge, skills, behaviours or performance of others.
- Driving team morale by being positive and enthusiastic. Helping to motivate others and make the working atmosphere enjoyable and supportive.
💡 We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have solid experience in fighting financial crime, specifically around customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence.
- You have a basic understanding or PEP’s, Adverse Media and Sanctions screening.
- You are confident in using open source information to inform your reviews and investigations.
- You are a strong team player and able to work effectively with colleagues with a range of backgrounds and experience levels, providing actionable specific feedback to investigators and their managers.
- You are developing a solid understanding of UK legislation, regulations and industry guidance around economic crime and keep up to date with emerging risk and trends in financial crime.
- You have great time management skills, you are flexible, and you can work with limited supervision
You’ll Really Stand Out If
- You are able to articulate the financial crime threats facing fintechs and the banking sector.
- You have previous experience approving or signing-off customer due diligence reviews prepared by colleagues.
- You hold or are working towards an appropriate qualification in financial crime or a relevant subject e.g. ICA, ACAMS
- You have experience working in a regulated bank in financial crime screening and customer due diligence (CDD), specifically in payments or sanctions screening, high-risk customer enhanced due diligence (EDD), or politically exposed persons (PEPs).