Looking to step into a role where you can take real ownership of financial crime risk and work closely with senior leadership?
This opportunity offers broad exposure across AML, sanctions, and wider financial crime, giving you the chance to play a key role in protecting the business while influencing best practice across the organisation.
Responsibilities include:
* Reviewing and approving high-risk clients and transactions, including those with sanctions exposure
* Conducting detailed enhanced due diligence (EDD) and assessing financial crime risks
* Investigating alerts linked to PEPs, sanctions, adverse media, and high-risk jurisdictions
* Supporting and, where appropriate, leading suspicious activity investigations and reporting
* Acting as a key escalation point for financial crime queries across the business
* Contributing to the ongoing monitoring and improvement of AML and financial crime controls
* Supporting onboarding processes to ensure robust KYC and compliance standards are met
* Assisting with responses to law enforcement and regulatory requests
* Delivering guidance and training to colleagues to strengthen financial crime awareness
* Building strong relationships with stakeholders across both first and second line functions
Requirements:
* Solid experience within financial crime / AML in a banking or financial services environment
* Proven exposure to high-risk customer reviews and transaction monitoring
* Strong working knowledge of sanctions frameworks (UK, EU, US)
* Experience conducting enhanced due diligence and investigating suspicious activity
* Good understanding of regulatory expectations and industry guidance
* Confident communicator, able to challenge, influence and advise stakeholders
* A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and make sound decisions
If you’re looking for a role where you can make a genuine impact in financial crime prevention while developing your expertise in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment, we’d love to hear from you.