Senior Financial Crime Analyst

Rev & Regs are seeking a Senior Financial Crime Analyst to work for a dynamic and well-established Bank in Maidstone, Kent.

This role is in the second line of defence overseeing the first line of defence in business-as-usual activities in relation to all economic crime risks.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Financial Crime Analyst will provide support as directed with:

• KYC, client onboarding, beneficiary verification and economic crime prevention.
• Reviewing and/or providing guidance on higher risk activity referred by first line of defence including payments, new or reviews of various relationship types, and other changes.
• Delegated authority from the Nominated Officer the review, assessment, reporting and managing, as necessary, of Suspicious Activity Reporting and other law enforcement or regulatory reporting.
• Conducting other activities including Monitoring, horizon scanning, economic crime systems oversight and country risk assessment alongside other referrals.
• Advise the business on all areas of day-to-day economic crime compliance
• Act as a point of escalation for the business for economic crime matters, ensuring the business is provided with prompt advice.
• Ensure that suspicious activity reports are investigated within the agreed timescales and escalated to the Nominated Officer and reported to the National Crime Agency under delegated authority as appropriate.
• Support the conduct of economic crime monitoring across all relevant business areas.
• Support the provision of training, development and delivery of economic crime communications and initiatives.
• Support key stakeholders to ensure effective systems and controls are in place for the management of economic crime.
• Investigate and making decisions on referrals made by first line of defence and supporting product governance in line with delegated authorities.
• Support first line of defence in delivering charity legislation compliance as part of meeting economic crime obligations.

Experience:

• Must have experience working in the field of economic crime e.g. anti-money laundering.
• PC skills including use of MS Office.
• Knowledge of JMLSG, AML regulations, other economic crime legislation and sources of information to support investigations.
• Ability to conduct research in support of provision of advice or decisions
• Ability to make decisions within delegated authority & recognise when escalation is appropriate.
• ICA advanced certificate or diploma in AML or equivalent or commitment to study towards a qualification

Salary: £38,000

Location: Hybrid (1 day per week in Maidstone office)