Remote Financial Crime Analyst - AML / SARS - Leading Banking App

Job Description

Excellent opportunity to join one the UKs fastest growing fintechs and leading digital banks. If you have a passion for great customer experience and have experience in working within a financial crime / suspicious activity monitoring / anti money launderingteam in the financial services sector wed love to chat.The hiring brand looks after its people and pays industry leading rates along with a perks package youll love. Oh and you can also work from home, forever!Role Info:Remote Financial Crime Analyst (Financial Crime Specialist)Work from Home (Apple MacBook provided)Up to £28,000 (Regularly reviewed)Plus Awesome Perks & BenefitsCulture: Open, collaborative, inclusive working environment.About the brand:Were hiring for a leading digital bank that lives on your phone and thats on a mission to make money work for everyone.Since launching in 2015 with initial crowdfunding, in which the brand raised £1m in a record-breaking 96 seconds, they have gone on to disrupt the industry by delivering banking exclusively via their App, yet offering customers the same secure experienceand FSCS deposit protection that you get on the highstreet.They are building the best bank in the world and want you to join them!Where you come in:With a mission to make money work for everyone, this fast-scaling brand needs your expertise. They are looking to hire a number of super passionate Financial Crime Analysts, who have gained exposure doing fraud or money laundering investigations, to join theirdedicated team and help the fight against financial crime.We are looking to connect with experienced financial crime / anti-money laundering investigators with a love for complex investigations who subscribe to the mission, making money work for everyone.Every day, youll spend your time on things like:+ Making decisions about the action to take on customer accounts or sign ups across a variety of real-time queues, including transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and enhanced due diligence reviews.+ Conducting second-stage reviews of transaction monitoring tasks, and collecting additional information about account activity.+ Writing and reviewing suspicious activity reports.+ Engaging with other banks and financial institutions about reports of fraudulent behaviour.+ Supporting more junior investigators through coaching and knowledge-sharing.You should apply if:+ You have experience working in operational financial crime teams focused on retail or business banking.+ You have a good understanding of current anti-money laundering trends and typologies.+ You have experience using anti-money laundering tools to identify and document suspicious activity.+ You have experience in one or more of the following:++ writing or reviewing suspicious activity reports (SARS).++ completing second-stage reviews of completed transaction monitoring tasks.++ closing and defunding customer accounts++ providing information to law enforcement to assist with ongoing investigations+ You are comfortable independently making judgement-based decisions with significant potential impact on the bank and customers+ You are very comfortable using a laptop+ Youre great at explaining things to people, and have flawless written English.+ Youre excited by our mission of making money work for everyone.What you get in return:// Compensation+ Regular salary reviews+ Proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities// Working from home+ If youre employed as a distributed worker you will be full equipped with everything you need to do your job// Holiday+ 24 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays - please use them all!+ Or, you can opt out of bank holidays and take 32 days holiday whenever you like (Customer Operations staff get 32 days and are scheduled to work bank holidays, but can still request annual leave if youd like)+ An extra 1 months unpaid leave every year// Health & Wellbeing+ Paid sick leave for both physical & mental health+ Health insurance via AXA+ Additional health insurance through Medicash+ Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line for health, legal & bereavement support (and loads more)+ Discounted subscription to the meditation app Headspace (£15 a year)+ Fresh fruit in the office (biscuits, quality coffee, tea and soft drinks too)// Learning+ Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences+ Regular knowledge-sharing sessions with your squad, collective and discipline+ A library of industry-related books that you can borrow at any time// Pension+ Automatic enrollment into pension scheme with Aviva+ 4% employer contribution (100% of your salary paid, then 4% extra into the pension)+ Youll need to pay 4% too, and you can opt to pay more for the tax benefits!+ You can opt out if youd prefer not to have a pension at all// Family+ Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if youve been employed for at least 13 weeks+ 52 weeks of primary caregiver leave (13 weeks at 100% pay, 13 weeks at 50% pay, 13 weeks at Statutory Maternity Pay)+ 6 weeks of secondary caregiver leave at 100% pay+ Life insuranceSound like a good matchYour Experience / Background / Previous Roles May Include:Fraud Banking Advisor, Financial Crime Investigator, Money Laundering, Retail Banking, Business Banking, AML Analyst, Suspicious Activity Monitoring.Application notice We take your privacy seriously. When you apply, we shall process your details and pass your application to our client for review for this vacancy only. As you might expect we may contact you by email, text or telephone. Your data is processedon the basis of our legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to our Data Privacy Policy & Notice on our website for further details.If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR