Senior Financial Crime Investigator – Business Banking

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

📋 Description

• Execute the most intricate financial crime business banking responsibilities, including Enhanced Due Diligence for high-risk enterprises, complex customer evaluations, and multi-jurisdictional money muling investigations.

• Draft, assess, and submit high-caliber Suspicious Activity Reports to the National Crime Agency.

• Maintain a consistent schedule for core investigative tasks to uphold competency and service level agreements.

• Mentor Investigators on complex financial crime typologies, best practices, and strategies for performance enhancement.

• Collaborate with Operations Analysts to identify emerging trends and update as well as implement operational guidance.

• Conduct onboarding and ongoing compliance assessments, investigations, reporting, and account closures to reduce financial crime risk.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive expertise in KYB and AML.

• Significant experience in executing end-to-end business due diligence (KYB/EDD) and complex investigations within a regulated financial environment.

• Proficient researcher capable of utilizing open-source intelligence and analysis to validate customer profiles and transactional activities.

• Strong understanding of UK and international financial crime trends impacting business accounts and the UK SAR regime.

• Adaptability to changing priorities, new guidelines, and process modifications with minimal notice.

• Leadership and improvement capabilities; experience mentoring colleagues or proposing process enhancements is preferred.

• Relevant qualifications such as ICA or ACAMS are considered ideal.

• Availability to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, from 9:00am to 5:30pm, plus one full weekend every four weeks.

• No time off permitted during the first six weeks of employment due to training commitments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based Incentive Awards.

• Guaranteed time off on your birthday if it falls on a scheduled workday (excluding the training period).

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Annual budget of £1,000 for books, training courses, and conferences.

• Provision of a MacBook.

• Additional support for enhancing the work-from-home environment for fully remote employees.

• Two designated days in lieu for working the weekend shift.