Financial Crime Consultant

Hours:

35 hours per week Monday to Friday, on secondment until June 2027

Salary:£29,100 Per Annum Closing Date:

Mon, 2 Nov 2026

We’re looking for a curious and meticulous Financial Crime Consultant to join our Financial Crime Operations team. Transaction monitoring will be the main focus of the role. You’ll review alerts, investigate unusual account activity and decide whether the risk is genuine or a false positive.

This is a critical role where your judgement and attention to detail will help protect our members, colleagues and the Society. You’ll join a supportive team, with opportunities to grow your financial crime knowledge and stretch your skills.

At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members - and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.

What You’ll DoWe’re here to make our members’ money work harder. But it takes more than one kind of role to make that happen. Across our Money team, you’ll find people supporting savings, investments and financial advice, alongside the teams behind the scenes who keep things moving, spot what could work better, and help turn good ideas into practical change.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Reviewing transaction monitoring alerts and account activity to identify potential financial crime.

Searching through high volumes of records and separating genuine concerns from false positives.

Investigating suspicious activity, gathering information from different sources and recording clear, accurate findings.

Assessing the level of risk and taking the appropriate action when concerns are identified.

Providing clear financial crime guidance to colleagues across the business.

What You’ll Need Previous exposure to transaction monitoring, including reviewing alerts or investigating unusual customer activity.

An understanding of financial crime risks, including fraud prevention and anti-money laundering

Confidence making balanced decisions based on the information available.

Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce clear, concise and accurate records.

The ability to gather, assess and explain information clearly to different stakeholders.

A calm and organised approach when working under pressure or managing changing priorities.

An interest in keeping up to date with changes in financial crime regulation, risks and trends.

What’s In It For You Your work matters.

And the way we reward you matters, too.

At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at Currys, and IKEAWe’re here to make life better for our members.

About Skipton.

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.

We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them. You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, tooIt all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

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