Senior Financial Crime Executive

• Review and investigate escalated sanctions, screening, transaction monitoring, and other financial crime alerts to assess potential financial crime risks and ensure appropriate outcomes.
• Conduct complex financial crime investigations, analysing customer activity, transactional behaviour, and relevant intelligence to identify potential money laundering, sanctions, fraud, or other financial crime concerns.
• Perform AML, KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews for new and existing customers, providing independent challenge and recommendations prior to approval.
• Undertake Politically Exposed Person (PEP), sanctions, and adverse media screening reviews, assessing findings and providing clear risk-based recommendations.
• Review and assess fraud-related matters, including payment and debit card fraud cases, providing oversight, challenge, and guidance to ensure risks are appropriately managed.
• Assess financial crime and fraud risks and determine whether internal escalation, suspicious activity reporting, or other regulatory reporting obligations should be considered.
• Review and respond to information requests from regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, correspondent banks, and other financial institutions.
• Support the ongoing development and enhancement of the Bank's financial crime framework, including policies, systems, controls, monitoring, and governance processes.
• Analyse financial crime data, trends, and management information to identify emerging risks, control weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare management information, reporting, and presentations for senior management, and executive committees.
• Assess the design and effectiveness of the Bank's financial crime controls and recommend enhancements where required.
• Provide advice, guidance, and subject matter expertise to business and operational teams on financial crime and fraud-related matters.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external parties to support the Bank's financial crime risk management framework.
• Support regulatory reporting and compliance submissions as required.
• Remain up to date with changes in AML, sanctions, fraud prevention, and wider financial crime regulations, ensuring regulatory developments are appropriately considered and implemented.

Requirements

• 3-5 years' experience in a Financial Crime, AML, Compliance, or Fraud-related role within a regulated financial institution.
• Sound understanding of AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and fraud risk management.
• Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to make well-reasoned, risk-based decisions.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively where appropriate.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 8 bank holidays
• Pension scheme, 4% employer contribution
• Private Medical Insurance
• 60-40 Hybrid working after successful probation period
• Free gym access in the building