Financial Crime Escalation Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you looking for your next career opportunity to use your skills as a Financial Crime Escalation Analyst?

As a Financial Crime Escalation Analyst in our Financial Crime team, you will be responsible for the timely review of Chase UK Banking customers who have been escalated into the team for a relationship review due to financial crime concerns or negative media association. You will be managing internal stakeholder relationships both with peers and senior leadership, which will include providing candid feedback to colleagues on their escalations. Additionally, you will be supporting with customer outreach requests for information (RFI) from Client List Screening and Sanctions Transaction Screening firm-wide utilities. The team is responsible for reviewing and responding to the firmwide utilities to disposition alerts on Negative Media, PEP, Sanction, Internal List Screening and Sanctions Payments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Critically analyze relationship review cases raised by internal stakeholders in order to identify if they can be cleared or require escalation to the Line of Business Committee
• Assess information collated from various sources and provide a clear and articulate summary recommendation to the Team Lead on the outcome of the review
• Prepare escalations Committee presentations with clear and concise narratives tailored to senior audiences
• Assist with change management by sharing process improvements and best practice amongst the team and manage the end-to-end process of the relationship review journey to ensure we comply with SLAs
• Being a key contact for the business and conducting outreach if the information provided by the business is lacking key information and develop strong partnerships with key stakeholders, proactively build and maintain relationships across the firm. Providing candid feedback to the business to ensure that the follow up actions are worked within a reasonable timeframe
• Attending frequent knowledge sharing and calibration calls with other areas of Chase UK to ensure that the customer journey is progressing within SLA
• Conduct customer outreach to support our valued customers through their onboarding journey and progress their application in a professional and compassionate way. Review and assessment of Sanction Payment alerts to establish if customer contact is required and providing an outcome to the Sanctions team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Extensive experience working within KYC within Financial Services or Banking
• Previous experience in a KYC role or role that requires research, problem solving skills and critical thinking as well as an understanding of KYC/AML risks and red flags.
• Excellent communication skills/customer service with strong stakeholder management experience, including effective engagement with colleagues, team leaders and managers. Proven ability to identify, analyze, plan, prioritize and solve problems by providing solutions with the ability to drive change
• Be comfortable with ambiguity, resilient with a growth mind-set and an exceptional attention to detail
• Be a multitasker with the ability to prioritize – you can connect and maintain engagement with stakeholders, whilst researching and resolving issues
• Strong time management skills while working under pressure to fixed deadlines and demonstrate an independent decision-making ability, and strong analytical skills in order to draft, clear and concise reports

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience of working within a digital bank
• Microsoft Office
• Customer service

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.