Financial Crime Executive

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Implement financial crime prevention systems and controls throughout the organization and its offerings.

• Collaborate with colleagues and engage with various clients to provide proportionate, precise, and effective financial crime services.

• Assist in customer onboarding, ensuring that CDD, KYC, fraud, and EDD requirements are accurately fulfilled according to regulatory and internal guidelines.

• Oversee transactions, high-risk payments, sanctions alerts, PEP hits, and adverse media.

• Investigate alerts from transaction monitoring, document findings, and maintain records and audit trails.

• Evaluate customer risk, authenticate identity, and review sources of funds.

• Conduct phone interviews to collect source-of-funds information.

• Address fraud allegations and other financial crime issues.

• Cultivate relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Generate and analyze management information.

• Promote financial crime awareness and foster a compliant financial crime culture.

• Identify emerging risks related to financial crime and propose controls or enhancements.

• Organize workloads according to risk assessments and contractual SLAs.

• Undertake additional projects and workstreams with assistance from the Financial Crime Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Flexible, adaptable, and a genuine team player.

• Analytical, curious, and proficient at problem-solving.

• Calm, confident, and reassuring during phone interactions.

• Ethical, thorough, and detail-oriented.

• Capable of managing your workload and adhering to tight deadlines.

• Proficient in presenting information in a clear and concise manner.

• Ideally, experience in a financial services regulatory context.

• Ideally, familiarity with customer onboarding processes, including CDD, KYC, fraud risk management, and EDD.

• Ideally, experience in transaction monitoring reviews, identifying unusual or suspicious activities, and escalating concerns appropriately.

• Ideally, understanding of suspicious activity reports, customer due diligence, and financial crime prevention procedures.

• Prior experience in a financial crime prevention role is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• 30 days of holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (from day one).

• Defined Pension Contribution Scheme (employer matched up to 6%). Additionally, the option to contribute through Salary Exchange (also known as Salary Sacrifice).

• Employee Discount Scheme, with access to discounts and offers from hundreds of leading retailers, plus cashback on purchases.

• Company-paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind).

• Group Life Assurance.

• Group Income Protection.

• Discretionary Annual Pay Review.

• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme.

• Loyal Service Scheme, rewarding commitment with financial recognition, additional holidays, and matched pension contributions of up to 10% at key service milestones.

• Free flu vaccinations, eye tests, and employer contributions towards glasses.

• Recognition Scheme.

• Free mortgage advice and support.

• Wisdom Wellbeing, your go-to for wellbeing resources and solutions, including an Employee Assistance Program.

• Everest Funeral Concierge.

• Free bereavement and probate advice and support.

• Access to a GP 24/7, 365 days a year through GP24.

• Paid eye tests and employer contributions towards spectacles specifically for VDU use.

• Enhanced parental leave.

• Technology Buying Scheme.

• Discounted gym memberships.

• Taste Card / Coffee Club Membership.

• Charitable payroll giving.

• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).

• Training, peer coaching, and regular one-on-ones.

• Access to supportive colleagues and development resources.

• My Recognition portal.

• Open access to leadership.