Financial Crime Apprenticeship Programme 2024

2 weeks ago


Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom LegalAndGeneral Full time
Company Description

Your role at a glance

  • Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to earn while you learn?_
The L&G Apprentice programme has been designed to help you reach your potential.

You will develop your skill set, gain valuable work experience and complete a fully funded professional qualification, all whilst earning a competitive salary with access to outstanding employee benefits.


With support every step of the way and access to core skills training, you will contribute to the success of a team and be supported by a dedicated line manager.

As part of a cohort of apprentices, you will also have the opportunity to connect with your peers and colleagues though networking opportunities and social events.

Joining L&G is the beginning to a future that will be anything but familiar.

So take a closer look, get involved, be curious and find out how we will enable you to be at your best no matter who you are.


What does this team do?


Risk Apprentices will join Legal & General's Financial Crime Operations team which consists of two specialist teams: Central Screening Function and the Enhanced Due Diligence team.

These teams work to protect Legal & General from possible financial crime matters.

Services these teams perform include:
- conducting in-depth reviews and investigations into new and existing relationships
- determining if relationships could be harmful to L&G and escalating as required
- the screening of customers at onboarding stage, identifying if there is or is a risk presented
- review of true matches to potential or known criminals, terrorists or sanctioned individual or entities.
- review of alleged Bribery cases, Money Laundering alerts, Enforcement alert reviews, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and Sanctioned individuals/entities

As a risk apprentice analyst, no working day is the same, so if you like variety within a safe environment (e.g.

industry standards, guidelines and best practice) and you love to ask questions to delve deeper and understand why something does (or doesn't) work - then a career in risk is for you.


Job Description:

Join us on a 24 month programme in which you will complete a Level 3 Risk and Compliance qualification.

You'll receive on the job training and coaching from your line manager to help you gain the professional, personal, social, and methodical skills needed to succeed in a business analysis career.


Practical on the job learning will include:

  • Seeing, via shadowing, observation
  • Assisting, via active participation and working with your team
- and lastly, "going solo" with support of your manger as your confidence and skills grow

During your apprenticeship you will:

  • Develop your investigative techniques to use existing and/or publicly available information to conduct riskbased Customer Due Diligence (CDD) or Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
  • Review screening alerts to identify and assess to identify and risk assess matches supporting the team to complete necessary risk assessments
  • Review Legal & General systems with support from your team to assist Financial Crime Consultants with their investigations into Internal Suspicious Activity referrals
  • Capture information to support a risk based decision in the specified documentation format.
  • Ensure accurate entry of data in the CDD & EDD records or systems. Identify and escalate any issues or risks that require further assistance from financial crime advisory specialists or management
  • Have the opportunity to support the team in production of MI data.
  • Assist members of the team in the production of reports suitable for senior management and external bodies, including FCA, Action Fraud and the National Crime Agency (NCA).
  • Through investigations and screening you will develop your stakeholder analysis and management skills.
  • Develop and enhance personal skills such as confidence, assertiveness, focus, adaptability, curiosity
  • Develop methodical skills such as problem solving, creative thinking, time management

Qualifications:


The person who would most benefit and enjoy this programme is hungry to learn and eager to get started in the world of work.

We're not expecting prior industry experience, but we'll want to see that you have the aptitude, potential and desire which will ultimately lead to you being successful.

We'll teach you the rest

To qualify for the programme, you will need:

  • 5 x GCSE's at grade 4-9 (A-C) or above (or equivalent) including Maths and English
  • Minimum 96 UCAS points from your Level 3 Qualifications e.g. A 'levels or equivalent
  • To not currently be on a government funded training course, e.g. on apprenticeship
  • The right to work in the UK and have lived in the UK or EEA for the past 3 consecutive years.
Additional Information


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