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

Excellent opportunity to join one the UK’s 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 laundering team in the financial services sector we’d love to chat.
The hiring brand looks after its people and pays industry leading rates along with a perks package you’ll 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 & Benefits
Culture: Open, collaborative, inclusive working environment.

Award-Winning inc Best Banking App @ The British Bank Awards
Sunday Times Fast Track 100
5.26M customers and growing

About the brand:

We're hiring for a leading digital bank that lives on your phone and that’s 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 experience and FSCS deposit protection that you get on the highstreet.

The business now has more than 5.26M customers with hundreds more joining every day.

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 their dedicated 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, you’ll 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
+ You’re great at explaining things to people, and have flawless written English.
+ You’re 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
+ Share options: the option to buy shares at a later date

// Working from home

+ If you’re 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 you’d like)
+ An extra 1 month’s 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)
+ You’ll need to pay 4% too, and you can opt to pay more for the tax benefits!
+ You can opt out if you’d prefer not to have a pension at all

// Family

+ Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve 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 insurance

// Community

+ Regular company-wide socials, like sports day and a Holiday party
+ Smaller team lunches, dinners, breakfasts & other social get-togethers
+ Interest based clubs like netball, choir, yoga. You can make your own, too!
+ Attendance is 100% optional – if you just don’t fancy it, there’s no pressure

Sound like a good match?

Your Experience / Background / Previous Roles May Include:
Fraud Banking Advisor, Financial Crime Investigator, Money Laundering, Retail Banking, Business Banking, AML Analyst, Suspicious Activity Monitoring.

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If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.