Analyst - AEC Customer Due Diligence
Application closing date: 19/11/2025 at 23:59
This is a 6-Month FTC
Location: Bristol, Leeds or Newcastle
A bit about the role...
Working in the Anti-Economic Crime Operations Team, the role holder will play a critical role in Homes England's commitment in the prevention and facilitation of economic crime. You will be joining our small but highly skilled team, who are committed to the highest standards of economic crime compliance.
We value diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within our team.
This is a rare chance to contribute to Homes England's economic crime framework in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional Anti-Economic Crime - Customer Due Diligence team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of economic crime prevention and the have the opportunity to help foster a healthy compliance culture.
A bit about you…
You'll be comfortable supporting the Anti-Economic Crime team with customer due diligence reviews, acting as gatekeepers. You will be experienced in economic crime prevention and customer due diligence.
Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level, and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as the Anti-Economic Crime – Customer Due Diligence team.
* As an experienced specific discipline compliance professional, you'll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.
* You will have the skills and experience to:
* Manage the full CDD process for lower-risk customers, making sure their risk is assessed correctly, and the right level of checks are carried out, including enhanced checks where needed, such as identifying Politically Exposed Persons and monitoring for sanctions.
* Conduct customer risk assessments for low risk customers and make risk based decisions that are in line with our Anti- Economic Crime policy framework.
* Review and manage sanction alerts and escalations from your stakeholders.
* Professional anti-money laundering qualification (such as ICA, ACAMS or CISI) is desirable, but not essential.
You will be motivated by safeguarding public funds, demonstrate integrity and accountability in everything you do, and be adaptable in a fast-paced environment. Most importantly, you will thrive on making a tangible impact — helping Homes England deliver with confidence and protect its reputation.
Who are we?
Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency
We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people's lives. As the government's housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.
How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.
Together with our partners, we're accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.
What we offer...
As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what matters to you.
Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.
Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.
If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.
Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.
If you are a member of a professional body, we'll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you'll be good to go.
Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.
We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.
We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.
Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country. For more information about our EDI strategy please see our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Report 2024 to 2025 — Second Edition - GOV.UK
You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.
Your application needs to be in your own words, reflect your personal understanding and experience, and must not have been generated by AI tools such as ChatGPT.