Role Overview
Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.
Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
We are recruiting AML Analyst to work within our General Counsel’s Office. The General Counsel's Office (GCO) is to “enable safely”, meaning that we provide risk, regulatory and legal advice and assistance to the firm so that it can achieve its economic, operational and strategic objectives in compliance with applicable law and within its established levels of risk appetite.
This role is part of the Regulatory Team within the GCO and supports its purpose by helping to ensure that the firm complies with its legal and regulatory obligations in respect of AML/KYC, sanctions and conflicts of interests.
The Regulatory Team operates on a regional basis and this role will primarily focus on team members local region however, support and assistance is to be provided in all of the jurisdictions in which we operate, where required
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
1. Onboarding new clients
2. Carrying out money laundering checks and risk assessments to ensure that the firm complies with its obligations under anti- money laundering legislation and the firm's anti-money laundering policy;
3. Seeking approval for high-risk clients and matters;
4. Carrying out business intelligence searches in respect of clients and matters, including public profiles/websites, electronic screening and other appropriate databases;
5. Checking and verifying information provided by the requesting teams
6. Dealing with general onboarding enquiries from the business.
7. Analysing potential conflicts of interests.
8. Building a good rapport with other departments.
9. Understanding of the firm's client base.
10. Actively participating in team meetings.
What can we offer you?
11. Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to diary commitments)
12. Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
13. 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
14. Contributory pension of up to 5%.
15. Private healthcare policy
16. Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
17. Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
18. Cycle to work scheme.