<p><strong>The opportunity</strong></p><p>As a Financial Crime Operations analyst, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements by supporting key operational processes. Your responsibilities will include onboarding new clients, managing ongoing monitoring activities, and identifying potential financial crime risks. You will conduct due diligence, assess risk levels, and collaborate with compliance teams to maintain a robust financial crime prevention framework. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to navigate complex regulatory requirements in a fast-paced environment.<span dir="ltr"></span></p><p><span dir="ltr"><br></span></p><ul></ul><p><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong><span dir="ltr"></span><br></p><ul><li>KYC: Verify customer details by reviewing documents such as passports, utility bills, business registration certificates, and financial statements.</li><li>Screening: Ensure adherence to anti-money laundering laws, regulations, and internal policies by conducting customer screening against sanctions lists and watchlists.</li><li>Ongoing Monitoring: Performing Transaction & Screening Monitoring, and periodic reviews to identify and mitigate potential financial crime risks</li><li>Escalations: Ensure any financial crime concerns are escalated with a clearly articulated risk assessment, supporting evidence, and recommended next steps, in line with regulatory requirements and internal policies.</li></ul><p><strong>What we're looking for in you</strong></p><ul><li><span dir="ltr">Strong attention to detail and organisation skills.</span></li><li><span dir="ltr">A good understanding of KYC/Compliance/AML standards at UK regulated financial services </span><span dir="ltr">company.</span></li><li><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr">Demonstrated experience of due diligence in onboarding/KYC refresh of financial services </span><span dir="ltr">and products.</span></li><li><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr">Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of escalating financial crime concerns to second line.</span></li><li><span dir="ltr">Proactive and flexible approach to personal workload and wider team targets</span></li><li><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr">Ability to work under pressure and to fixed deadlines</span></li><li><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr">Effective at managing time appropriately and organising workload for maximum</span><br><span dir="ltr">productivity.</span><span dir="ltr"></span></li><li><span dir="ltr">Logical, structured approach to planning, problem solving and decision-making</span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Our promise</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Shieldpay is an equal opportunities employer. For Shieldpay building a fair and transparent workforce begins with the recruitment process that does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.</p><p>At Shieldpay we will consider requests for flexible working on hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, Hybrid working (an element of working from home), compressed hours. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways.</p> •
Last updated on Feb 6, 2025