Fraud Specialist

About the role

Our Financial Crime Team works in partnership with our business to protect the Society and its members from financial crime. As a Fraud Specialist in this exciting role, you’ll play an important part in doing just that by protecting the Society from fraud.

As a Fraud Specialist, the day to day is extremely interesting and varied where you protect both YBS and our customers. Some tasks that you will be responsible for include:

• Responsible for managing the critical analysis and investigation of fraudulent activity (including mortgage, savings, & third‑party fraud) including complex and sensitive cases.
• Perform transactional verification to protect customers and the Society against risk and loss.
• Provide timely and proportionate specialist technical fraud advice to colleagues across the business.
• Support the implementation plans across the fraud and wider Financial Crime Operational teams, to service level agreements and quality targets ensuring an exceptional customer/colleagues experience, protecting YBS and minimising losses or adverse reputational impact.

The Fraud Specialist plays a very important role at YBS! What will you bring to the role?

• Experience of analysing fraudulent activity, autonomous decision making and meeting regulatory and legislative obligations to effectively protect both customers and the business.
• Robust understanding of financial crime regulations and legislation, specifically fraud related, but with sound AML knowledge.
• Experience of using fraud prevention systems such as National Hunter or CIFAS.
• Awareness of financial services industry, markets and competitors.
• Effective communication, engagement and influencing skills.

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we are all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self‑service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Please note:

This advert will close 16th July