Financial Crime Data Analyst

Overview

This role reports to the Financial Crime Operations Manager and plays a key part in delivering a targeted financial crime data review and remediation initiative. The role will take ownership of assessing the integrity and appropriateness of financial crime indicators across client accounts, ensuring alignment with internal policy, regulatory expectations, and the firm s risk appetite.

• Conduct risk-based reviews of financial crime indicators applied to client accounts, critically assessing their ongoing validity, effectiveness, and alignment with internal frameworks and external regulatory expectations.
• Apply sound judgement and risk interpretation to identify potential control weaknesses, data inconsistencies, or gaps in application, and recommend remediation actions.
• Identify and escalate cases that require further investigation or enhanced oversight and liaise with relevant stakeholders to achieve appropriate outcomes.
• Ensure all review outcomes are clearly evidenced, audit-ready, and aligned to governance standards, maintaining high levels of accuracy and documentation integrity.
• Support the wider programme by providing insight on emerging trends, themes and risk patterns identified through review activity.

• Strong risk awareness, with the ability to apply judgement within defined procedures, policies and control frameworks.
• Proven experience working with large and complex datasets, with a strong ability to interrogate, validate, and draw meaningful conclusions.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Confident communicator, capable of articulating findings both verbally and in writing.
• Highly organised and delivery-focused, with the ability to manage workload independently while maintaining quality and attention to detail.
• System experience (desirable):
  Microsoft CRM Dynamics; FNZ One platform.