Financial Crime Systems Analyst

Job Description

Business Unit: Group Risk, Financial CrimeSalary: from £27,200 - up to circa £40,000 depending on experienceWere pretty busy here at Virgin Money, transforming our team to help us disrupt the status quo but weve lot more to do, if we are to grow as a digital first bank and that includes accelerating our digital agenda in a truly agile. We also said Hello to A Life More Virgin, our exciting new proposition offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose.Heres what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)
• Five extra paid well-being days per year
• A 35 hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And, you get these Red Hot Rewards from day one!Youll be working alongside the Financial Crime Systems Managers to optimise the performance of our Financial Crime systems that perform payment and customer screening, achieved through configuration, tuning, data analytics and performance monitoring.Youll also be key in ensuring that effective assurance controls and governance are in place to strengthen our financial crime controls.Day to day youll: Generating, developing and analysing MI from a range of systems and data sources to inform systems & process development, and risk appetite setting Supporting the Financial Crime Systems Managers in configuring and fine tuning the Banks sanctions payment & customer screening systems by proposing, developing, testing and implementing rules and configuration changes to increase the effectiveness and efficiencyof the systems Conducting monitoring & analysis of the performance of the systems Analysis of system assurance test packs executed on financial crime risk systems and communicating the outcomes to internal stakeholders as well as raising support cases with the suppliers as required Managing the regulatory watchlists and other input file updates and data files, ensuring these are applied in line with Bank policy Creating governance forum meeting packs, compiling reports in relation to rules performance, attending project meetings and governance forums Being directed by, and working with, the Financial Crime Policy & Advisory team to ensure that the systems are configured to align to risk appetite and internal & external policy requirements Supporting change initiatives that impact on Financial Crime systems within the Bank, including but not limited to requirements elicitation, test script creation / execution and implementation support. Carrying out regular documentation reviews for systems owned by Financial Crime Risk, ensuring these are up to date Continuous improvement in financial crime prevention processes within the bank spanning all Financial Crime owned systems.To be successful youll need to bring: Experience with one or more of the following tools: SAS, Oracle/SQL Server databases, Amazon EMR, R Studio, VBA (or similar) Experience working in a data analytics role Knowledge of financial crime systems in a retail banking environment Knowledge of financial crime legislation and regulations Exposure to risk management practicesIts a bonus if you have (but its not essential): Development & testing of financial crime systems business rules (e.g. Fircosoft, NetReveal, Actimize Monitor, SAS TM, TransWatch or similar) Experience with watchlist management Experience of working on change projects at an analyst level either as part of a project team or supporting from a BAU stakeholder perspective Working knowledge of Microsoft VisioInclusion at Virgin MoneyInclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. Its good for you, its good for us and its amazing for our customers. We know that great minds dont think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgroundsto be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application Wed love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at .Now the legal bitLiving A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years worth of satisfactory references.