Financial Crime Operations Analyst

As a Financial Crime Operations Analyst, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding financial integrity and ensuring regulatory alignment. You will be responsible for conducting vital sanctions and transaction monitoring, and supporting the operational team with the onboarding and ongoing monitoring of complex financial crime cases.

• Sanctions Screening:
  Conduct screening of payees against sanctions lists to identify potential matches, elevate risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Transaction Monitoring:
  Monitor and review transactional activity to detect unusual or suspicious patterns, elevate potential risks, and support compliance with anti-financial crime regulations.
• Due Diligence and onboarding:
  Conduct due diligence checks on customers, clients, and third-party entities to assess their risk profiles and ensure they meet the company's risk appetite and compliance standards.
• Data Analysis and Reporting:
  Utilise data analytics tools to identify patterns and trends related to financial crime risks. Generate regular reports for senior management and regulatory authorities.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Monitor the effectiveness of financial crime prevention measures and suggest improvements to enhance the Shieldpay's ability to combat financial crime.

As a Financial Crime Operations Analyst, you'll play a critical role in safeguarding financial integrity and ensuring regulatory alignment. You will be responsible for conducting vital sanctions and transaction monitoring, and supporting the operational team with the onboarding and ongoing monitoring of complex financial crime cases.

• Sanctions Screening:
  Conduct screening of payees against sanctions lists to identify potential matches, elevate risks, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Transaction Monitoring:
  Monitor and review transactional activity to detect unusual or suspicious patterns, elevate potential risks, and support compliance with anti-financial crime regulations.
• Due Diligence and onboarding:
  Conduct due diligence checks on customers, clients, and third-party entities to assess their risk profiles and ensure they meet the company's risk appetite and compliance standards.
• Data Analysis and Reporting:
  Utilise data analytics tools to identify patterns and trends related to financial crime risks. Generate regular reports for senior management and regulatory authorities.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Monitor the effectiveness of financial crime prevention measures and suggest improvements to enhance the Shieldpay's ability to combat financial crime.

• You identify even the smallest errors in data and documentation that others may overlook.
• You handle sensitive financial information with the highest level of confidentiality and professionalism.
• You want to build on your existing onboarding and KYC skills with increasing complexity of deals, making it ideal for someone with a genuine interest in financial crime prevention and customer onboarding, and a proactive approach to learning regulatory requirements and strengthening controls.
• Be proactive in acquiring knowledge, providing unwavering support, overcoming obstacles, and actively participating. Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, collaborate with your team, and leverage technology.
• A clear understanding of foundational information security principles and follow our policies. You have a responsibility to recognise and report potential security risks in daily tasks while maintaining a good level of awareness of the importance of data protection in your role.
• The ability to demonstrate that our values serve as a moral compass, shaping how you behave and interact with others.…