Senior Financial Crime Executive

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<li>Review and investigate escalated sanctions, screening, transaction monitoring, and other financial crime alerts to assess potential financial crime risks and ensure appropriate outcomes.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Undertake Politically Exposed Person (PEP), sanctions, and adverse media screening reviews, assessing findings and providing clear risk-based recommendations.</li>
<li>Review and assess fraud-related matters, including payment and debit card fraud cases, providing oversight, challenge, and guidance to ensure risks are appropriately managed.</li>
<li>Assess financial crime and fraud risks and determine whether internal escalation, suspicious activity reporting, or other regulatory reporting obligations should be considered.</li>
<li>Review and respond to information requests from regulatory authorities, law enforcement agencies, correspondent banks, and other financial institutions.</li>
<li>Support the ongoing development and enhancement of the Bank's financial crime framework, including policies, systems, controls, monitoring, and governance processes.</li>
<li>Analyse financial crime data, trends, and management information to identify emerging risks, control weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.</li>
<li>Prepare management information, reporting, and presentations for senior management, and executive committees.</li>
<li>Assess the design and effectiveness of the Bank's financial crime controls and recommend enhancements where required.</li>
<li>Provide advice, guidance, and subject matter expertise to business and operational teams on financial crime and fraud-related matters.</li>
<li>Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external parties to support the Bank's financial crime risk management framework.</li>
<li>Support regulatory reporting and compliance submissions as required.</li>
<li>Remain up to date with changes in AML, sanctions, fraud prevention, and wider financial crime regulations, ensuring regulatory developments are appropriately considered and implemented.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>3-5 years' experience in a Financial Crime, AML, Compliance, or Fraud-related role within a regulated financial institution.</li>
<li>Sound understanding of AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and fraud risk management.</li>
<li>Strong investigative and analytical skills, with the ability to make well-reasoned, risk-based decisions.</li>
<li>Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.</li>
<li>Strong written and verbal communication skills.</li>
<li>Ability to influence and challenge constructively where appropriate.</li>
<li>Strong organisational and time-management skills.</li>
<li>High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.</li>
<li>Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.</li>
</ul><h2>Benefits</h2><ul>
<li>25 days annual leave entitlement plus 8 bank holidays</li>
<li>Pension scheme, 4% employer contribution</li>
<li>Private Medical Insurance</li>
<li>60-40 Hybrid working after successful probation period</li>
<li>Free gym access in the building</li>
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