Financial Crime Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Financial Crime Analyst to join a Law firm in London on a full time, permanent basis with hybrid working.

This role offers an opportunity for someone wishing to pursue a career in Financial Crime.

The Financial Crime Analyst will be part of the Financial Crime Team, reporting to the Head of Financial Crime and will regularly liaise with various teams including the New Business Intake team, Conflicts team, Business Intelligence team and wider Riskand Compliance team.

The role will be divided into four core functions -AML, Sanctions, General Financial Crime, and record keeping.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**AML**
- Conducting AML and CDD reviews on a variety of client structures - trusts, corporates, funds, offshore entities etc.
- Identifying any potential issues such as AML, bribery as well as potential reputational risks to the business.
- Building effective working relationships with fee earners across the firm, acting as a go to person regarding AML queries.
- Carrying out adverse press research, assessing its relevance and excluding false positives.
- Carrying out searches to identify whether a client is a politically exposed person ("PEP") and advising partners and other fees earners on source of wealth and funds checks, in addition to maintaining/updating a PEP register.
- Carrying out risk assessments at client inception to see whether the prospective client presents a higher than usual risk of money laundering.
- In addition to AML, understand risk flags associated with tax evasion. Clearly identifying such flags and adjusting the risk rating accordingly.
- Assisting with regulatory audits.
- Providing bespoke CDD compilation / business partnership services.
- Liaising directly with clients ensuring that an excellent service is delivered.
- Effectively managing workflow and pushing through new matter requests promptly.
- Escalating complex AML issues to the Senior Analyst and Head of Financial Crime.
- Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of changes to legislation and regulations.
- Providing support on key AML / compliance projects.

**Sanctions**
- Review escalations from the New Business Intake team related to all EMEA matters, escalating any potential matches to the Head of Financial Crime
- Identify matters affected by sanctions and initiate the file closure process.
- Instruct conflicts/NBI teams to insert appropriate block flags in the system.
- Maintain detailed records of notifications made to OFSI and sanctions regulators in other jurisdictions.

**General Financial Crime**
- Assisting the Head of Financial Crime with formatting and updating polices relating to different areas of financial crime - Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy, Tax evasion policy, Sanctions etc and maintain annexes and registers related to these policies.
- Recording and updating tasks involving financial crime work streams.
- Advising on basic queries relating to financial crime matters.

**Record Keeping**
- Producing reports on key CDD metrics for all UK clients.
- Analysing data and converting it into useful metrics.
- Advising on and maintaining a register of ongoing monitoring of clients/matters in accordance with legal/regulatory requirements.
- Assisting the Risk and Compliance team to create efficient frameworks.
- Ability to be proactive and suggest improvements to existing methods.

**Required key skills/experience**:

- Experience working in a Financial Crime / AML role, preferably within the legal sector.
- Flexible and able to adapt to new situations, processes and new technology.
- Prior experience of using/implementing Intapp Advance module - testing, liaising with the developers, is a highly preferred skill.
- Recording data and effectively reporting on the data collected.
- Ability to efficiently convert numbers and metrics into visual representations using pivot charts, tables, pie charts, graphs and diagrams.

We are looking for someone who is great at communicating at all levels, is able to handle a high volume of tasks whilst maintaining attention to detail and who has great organisation skills - all of which go without saying really

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to advance their career in financial crime at an exciting time for the firm.

We’d love it if you have already worked in this field or a generalist legal compliance role and have a real interest in pursuing financial crime.

Salary between £40,000 and £45,000

Hybrid working.

For further information please contact Rowena Bubb at Lewis Row Recruitment.