Economic Crime Officer

6 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Starling Bank Full time

Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 2,500 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
We are recruiting an Economic Crime Officer to join the 2nd Line Economic Crime function of the Bank. Within this team, we tackle all types of financial crime and fraud, providing oversight and working with stakeholders throughout the business to ensure the protection of our customers.
As an Economic Crime Officer within the Disclosure Team, you will play a key role in protecting Starling Bank and its customers by reviewing internal suspicious activity reports to identify threats, trends and weaknesses within the bank's financial crime prevention systems. You will ensure that internal practices comply with regulation, are carried out in line with procedure, compliment our values, and deliver fair outcomes to our customers.
This role sits within the 2nd Line, and will provide support to the business across the financial crime functions, including potentially training and feedback to the 1st Line.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the review, analysis and investigation of internal suspicious activity reporting;
- Decision making concerning disclosure of suspicious activity to the National Crime Agency under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA);
- Liaising with Law Enforcement on complex / sensitive enquiries;
- Analysing data and capturing outputs of reviews into a formal report, and communicating these to relevant stakeholders across the organisation;
- Review of key controls, such as transaction monitoring and internal procedures to improve financial crime threat identification and response within the bank;
- Work with wider teams across the business to ensure best practice is being met;
- Analysing quality data metrics, trends and patterns, and sharing common themes with stakeholders;
- Horizon scanning for new financial crimes threats such as new or changing money laundering and fraud typologies;
- Periodically review team procedures to ensure they are compliant with legislation, regulations, and codes of best practice;
- Provide feedback to management on internal processes in order to improve and streamline our responses.

**Requirements**:

- 3-5 years experience ideally working in the 2LoD in a fraud/financial crime role or similar;
- Good knowledge of the bank’s regulatory obligations under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA);
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills along with the use of initiative to solve problems independently, while maintaining attention to detail at all times;
- Inquisitive by nature, with the ability to query data, understand complex problems, seek out answers and identify potential solutions;
- Comfortable making decisions following identification of threat or risk factors on accounts;
- Comfortable presenting findings to colleagues and key stakeholders;
- Good at building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, with the ability to present findings and recommendations both written and orally;
- Able to adapt to change positively and quickly.

**Benefits**:

- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentivised refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About Us
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disabili

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