Financial Crime Officer

Financial Crime Officer
Manchester
GBP40-50K

Financial Crime responsibilities include:
* Anti-Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, Bribery & Corruption, Market Abuse & Fraud.
* This role will assist the Head of Financial Crime, the MLRO and the AML Project team in providing advice and guidance systems and controls which comply with legislative and regulatory best practice.

Key Activities
?? Providing subject matter expertise to internal stakeholders, the AML Project to advise on system enhancements, procedural changes and instruction amendments.
?? Support the Financial Crime Prevention Analysts in the assessment and investigation of suspicious activity reports (SAR), in order to advise on whether escalation to the MLRO is appropriate.
?? Managing complex investigations, including co-ordinating incident meetings with senior management to agree & implement actions to address internal control failures & control gaps.
?? Assist in reporting appropriate SARs to the National Crime Agency;
?? Support the Financial Crime Prevention Analysts and Officers in assessing potential anti-money laundering matches, such as Sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons and adverse media checking;
?? Liaise with regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies as necessary;
?? Provide specialist financial crime advice and support to the regional compliance departments and other business areas in their objectives to rollout systems and/or instructions and follow them up to ensure local implementation;
?? Maintain detailed knowledge of appropriate legislation, regulations and guidance published by the UK, EU and other regulatory bodies from time to time;
?? Assist in the preparation of financial crime reports for management and group reporting;
?? Provide consultancy and advice on fraud, AML & CTF implications of new products, services or channels.

Knowledge/experience/skills
* The successful candidate will have in depth and current fraud and AML knowledge, specifically within the retail banking sector, including knowledge of related legal and regulatory framework.
* The successful candidate must be able to work independently and handle cases that require extremely high levels of discretion.
* She / he will have sound judgement and strong decision making skills, together with an enquiring analytical mindset.
* They will need to have the ability to work independently, in a very small team, and be able to influence a team of experts within the region to achieve common goals.
* Effective prioritisation of workload is essential.

Qualifications
* Formal fraud/AML related qualifications would be desirable in order to demonstrate that the candidate has higher levels of experience and competence.

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