Financial Crime Analyst TEMP

Financial Crime Analyst
Offering between £30,000 - £35,000 per annum
Located in Lytham, Durham or Glasgow
Temporary contract until March 31st 2025
Hybrid working (2/3 days in office)

About the role in the organisation

As Financial Crime analyst your main responsibility is to support the Financial Crime Manager in the design and completion of the financial crime oversight plan. You will support change initiatives, providing SME input as required. You will also support financial crime training and awareness initiatives across the company, and contribute to the reports produced by the team. It is critical that the company's outsourced providers are adhering to the relevant financial crime related legislation, regulations and internal policies and this role plays a significant part in ensuring the company's customers are safeguarded, their reputation is protected and the business operates compliantly. An important aspect of this role is the advisory support it provides to other teams and to the outsourced provider both in terms of BAU activity and across the change programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Financial Crime Manager and the outsourced providers delivering Operations to design a financial crime oversight plan ensuring adherence to relevant legislation, regulations and policy.
• Lead on the delivery of the oversight plan, ensuring appropriate records are kept, and key stakeholders are kept informed of progress and performance.
• Support the Financial Crime Manager on the development of a communications plan to ensure staff are kept aware and up to date on financial crime matters and the obligations that apply to them. This includes horizon scanning, contributing to the creation of financial crime bulletins and training material.
• Contribute to the production of reports for key governance groups including the Risk Management Committee, Board Audit and Risk Committee and the Executive Committee.
• Provide SME input and guidance on a range of change initiatives
• Provide an advisory role on financial crime matters to internal stakeholders across the company, ensuring timely support is provided when requested.

Specification

Essential technical knowledge

• Good financial crime risk management experience in a regulated financial services environment.
• To include as a minimum experience in fraud, AML and sanctions compliance.
• Good knowledge of UK's financial crime regulatory regime

Essential skills and experience

• Experience performing first line oversight and monitoring
• Good problem solving and analytical abilities

Desirable qualifications, experience and technical knowledge

• Degree educated or professional qualification (ICA or equivalent)
• Experience producing and delivering financial crime training material, plus reports for senior stakeholders.

In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.