Financial Crime Analyst - Connells Group HQ : Job Details

Job DescriptionConnells Group have an exciting opportunity working as a Financial Crime Analyst in our office in Milton Keynes. This is a new and exciting role to support the Group Head of Financial Crime Prevention in the delivery of an effective framework/oversight of all aspects of the Group’s standards and controls to prevent the Group being used to further financial crime.Your Main responsibilities will include:

• Act as subject matter expert and provide technical and practical advice and guidance on general matters relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence (within Estate Agency, Lettings and Mortgage Services functions).
• Work alongside other business areas to support the implementation of Group AML procedures.
• Support Group functions with on-boarding and due diligence checks for various customer/transaction types (including Corporate, Power of Attorney, Trusts, Charities).
• Carry out research to establish whether PEP and Sanction Matches are genuine and determine whether escalation to senior management is required.
• Maintenance of Group HMRC (AML Supervision) Registrations ensuring that these remain up to date and that appropriate fees are paid on time.
• Identify and escalate at the earliest opportunity any regulatory issues to the CDD/Technical Managers in a clear and accurate manner.
• Assist with the preparation and review of internal procedures.
• Where required by Financial Crime Technical Manager, preparation and processing of Internal Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and reporting of SARs to the appropriate agencies in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
• Maintenance of the Group SAR Register in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
• Attend Committees as agreed with the Financial Crime CDD Manager.
• Ad hoc support as directed by the Financial Crime CDD Manager.

ExperienceDesirable:

• Relevant experience within Estate Agency, Financial Services or Lettings, or with particular knowledge of AML/KYC.
• Knowledge of Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and JMLSG Guidance.
• Understanding or experience of taking a Risk Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence

Essential:

• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver high quality written work and reporting.
• Ability to assess the impact and relevance of issues and articulate them in a clear and precise manner.
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills and the credibility to work well with Senior Management and relevant external agencies.
• Ability to focus on a clear purpose and interpret key aspects of a dataset or task.
• Confidence to use own judgement and intuition, understanding when to escalate or seek guidance.
• Ability to build strong and effective working relationships with business areas.
• Articulate, confident communicator and presenter.
• Confident to provide appropriate and commercially aware challenge to business areas and management.
• Highly self-motivated with ability to prioritise time, to work unsupervised and to react to urgent situations.
• Relevant professional qualification or willingness to work toward this.

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