Financial Crime Compliance Analyst AVP - Pontoon : Job Details

Financial Crime Compliance Analyst (AVP)

London, Hybrid setting of 3 days a week in the office, 2 days WFH

6-month initial contract (Scope to extend)

£334 a day via Umbrella, inside ir35

My client is one of the largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan, with an established presence across all consumer and corporate banking businesses. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, they offer a diverse range of financial services, including commercial banking, leasing, securities, credit card, consumer finance and other services.

Job Role:

This role is based in the Financial Crime compliance team. The role holder must have an understanding of the Transaction Monitoring and anti-fraud tools used by our client (SAM/ ACTIMIZE). Experience in working on a busy financial crime team and undertaking investigations and providing advice to stakeholders at all levels is essential.

You will undertake second line of defence investigations work for core responsibilities such as the prevention of Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Fraud, and understanding of Sanctions and related financial crime risks.

Assignments:

• Responding to enquiries from the business in a timely manner.
• Analysing documentation, automated alerts, transactional data and conducting open-source research/screening. Identifying instances of fraud, trade-based and other forms of money laundering, PEP's, Anti-Bribery/Corruption, Counter Terrorist Financing, and potential sanctions matters.
• Providing advice and guidance to EMEA front office departments to mitigate Financial Crime risk associated with regards to current customers and proposed trades/transactions, supplier engagements and corporate hospitality.
• Provide support to, and conduct own investigations, including research in relation to internal staff investigations, money laundering, fraud, bribery & corruption, and other financial crime which impacts the Bank across the EMEA region.
• Detailing financial evidence into reports and statements tailored to target audiences.
• Produce and provide analysis of the various reports from other Compliance areas, both qualitative and quantitative, of customers under active investigation.
• Identify developing themes, assist in building control frameworks which proactively prevent or detect financial crime. Keep fully apprised of proposed changes to legislation, directives, and guidance, and ensure that key points are communicated to the senior stakeholders.
• Draft Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for submission.
• Provide support to senior stakeholders on an ad hoc basis in relation to Special Case work projects for the EMEA region.

Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of rules for Transaction Monitoring and anti-fraud systems.
• Good appreciation in controls, risk management and audit
• Good experience in documenting detail in business language and structured format
• Understanding and practical ability to apply the management of financial crime into rules.
• Inquisitive, motivated, and highly trustworthy with an ability to work with the minimum of direct supervision, experienced in dealing with highly confidential material.
• Strong written and verbal communicator, able to articulate and prepare detailed rationale.
• Strong understanding AML Transaction Monitoring Systems.
• Knowledge of Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and relevant fraud legislation
• Knowledge of the wider financial crime landscape - UK and global.

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