Financial Crime Compliance Analyst; FTC

A prestigious private bank with a significant and growing presence in the UK is seeking a Financial Crime Compliance Alert Analyst, on a 12 month FTC basis.

• Investigate escalated transaction monitoring alerts generated from the Bank’s surveillance systems.
• Analyse transaction activity across complex clients, structures, trusts, foundations, holding companies special purpose vehicles, partnerships and other legal entities.
• Develop a clear understanding of beneficial ownership, control, ownership chains and inter-company relationships to identify potential financial-crime risks.
• Escalate material or higher-risk cases to senior stakeholders and relevant financial crime teams
• Execute sound judgement when assessing risk within complex private banking relationships
• Document investigations with clear rationale and evidential support.
• Review and investigate alerts generated from the screening solutions
• Determining true versus false matches.
• Conducting enhanced research using internal and external sources.
• Assessing sanctions, reputational and regulatory risk.
• Escalating confirmed or potential matches in accordance with policy.
• Supporting periodic rescreening exercises.
• Apply a risk-based approach to all investigations.
• Identify emerging financial crime typologies.
• Consider AML, sanctions, tax evasion, bribery and corruption indicators where relevant.
• Recommend customer risk rating changes where appropriate.
• Manage an assigned portfolio of alerts within agreed service levels.
• Ensure investigations are completed accurately and consistently.
• Record investigation outcomes in relevant case management systems.
• Provide guidance on financial crime requirements to internal stakeholders.
• Support regulatory and internal audit requests.
• Assist management in the preparation of MI
• Support the development and maintenance of dashboards and reports
• Assist in the development, review, and maintenance of financial crime compliance policies and procedures
• Identify recurring alert trends and opportunities to improve system calibration.
• Support optimisation of transaction monitoring and screening scenarios.
• Contribute to procedure updates and control enhancements.
• Participate in user acceptance testing for new monitoring systems where required

• Proven experience in a financial crime compliance role within a private banking or wealth management environment.
• Strong knowledge of transaction monitoring, screening and financial crime workflow systems and processes.
• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g., ICA Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance, CAMS) are desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and concise advice to stakeholders.

For further information please contact Natalie Eshelby