Financial Crime Analyst

Financial Crime Analyst

Job Type: Fixed term until 31st March 2025

Location: Durham, North East England, DH1 1SL : Lytham St Anne's, North West England, FY8 4TS : Glasgow, Scotland, G2 8JX : City of Westminster, London (region), SW1P 3BT

Salary: £35,000 - £37,000 per annum

The Role

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 NS&I, and contribute to the reports produced by the team.

It is critical NS&I’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 NS&I customer are safeguarded, our reputation is protected and NS&I operates compliantly.

An important aspect of this role is the advisory support it provides to other NS&I 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 NS&I Operations to design a financial crime oversight plan ensuring adherence to relevant legislation, regulations and NS&I 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 NS&I 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 NS&I, ensuring timely support is provided when requested.

Skills and Qualifications

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.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Working Together

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible hybrid working options
• 9 day fortnight scheme
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Generous annual leave - starting at 25 days, increasing to 30 days
• Performance related variable pay bonus
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

To Apply

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