Financial Crime Specialist

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom AJ Bell Management Limited Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join AJ Bell Management Limited's Financial Crime team. We are seeking a skilled Transaction Monitoring Analyst who will play a critical role in ensuring the company's compliance with financial crime regulations through the detection and prevention of financial crime.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Reviewing transaction monitoring alerts to identify instances of financial crime and fraud, including money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions violations, bribery, and corruption.
  • Detecting and highlighting unusual patterns and suspicious activities through meticulous monitoring of transaction histories and account behaviour.
  • Undertaking transactional analysis to thoroughly investigate the alert to determine if it should be discounted or disclosed to the NCA.
  • Drafting SARs for disclosure, including a clear and robust rationale on financial crime concerns and identifying any proceeds of crime and DAML requirements.
  • Maintaining meticulous records and generating insightful reports detailing actions taken on accounts.
  • Providing support to the Financial Crime Manager and Head of Financial Crime in various ad hoc tasks.

Requirements include:

  • Strong technical knowledge of the UK financial crime regulatory regime across all areas of financial crime, including AML, CTF, Fraud, Sanctions, PEPs, ABC, and Market Abuse.
  • Comprehensive understanding of businesses, structures, governance, control frameworks, and process & control infrastructures within the financial services sector.
  • Experience of transactions monitoring systems, analysing alerts, SAR and DAML disclosures.
  • Experience in a similar Financial Crime role within Financial Services, preferably in the pensions or platform sector.
  • Expert knowledge of FCA expectations relating to financial crime, JMLSG guidance, and relevant financial crime legislation.
  • Strong communication skills, including report writing and presentation abilities.


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