This opportunity offers broad exposure across AML, sanctions, and wider financial crime, giving you the chance to play a key role in protecting the business while influencing best practice across the organisation.
Responsibilities include:
- Reviewing and approving high-risk clients and transactions, including those with sanctions exposure
- Conducting detailed enhanced due diligence (EDD) and assessing financial crime risks
- Investigating alerts linked to PEPs, sanctions, adverse media, and high-risk jurisdictions
- Supporting and, where appropriate, leading suspicious activity investigations and reporting
- Acting as a key escalation point for financial crime queries across the business
- Contributing to the ongoing monitoring and improvement of AML and financial crime controls
- Supporting onboarding processes to ensure robust KYC and compliance standards are met
- Assisting with responses to law enforcement and regulatory requests
- Delivering guidance and training to colleagues to strengthen financial crime awareness
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders across both first and second line functions
Requirements:
- Solid experience within financial crime / AML in a banking or financial services environment
- Proven exposure to high-risk customer reviews and transaction monitoring
- Strong working knowledge of sanctions frameworks (UK, EU, US)
- Experience conducting enhanced due diligence and investigating suspicious activity
- Good understanding of regulatory expectations and industry guidance
- Confident communicator, able to challenge, influence and advise stakeholders
- A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and make sound decisions
If you’re looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact in financial crime prevention while developing your expertise in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment, we’d love to hear from you.
