Financial Crime Systems Senior Analyst - Screening

Our team’s responsible for ensuring that the financial crime systems that perform transaction monitoring, name screening and payment screening are effective and perform optimally on an ongoing basis. Through configuration and ongoing calibration of the systems we ensure that the solutions mitigate VMUK’s financial crime risks, meet VMUK’s policy requirements and align to our risk appetite.

What you’ll be doing

• With a specific focus on name screening for Sanctions, PEPs and Adverse Media through the lifecycle of the customer journey you’ll be managing the regulatory watchlists and other input files to VMUK’s screening solutions, ensuring these are applied in line with policy requirements

• Configuration and ongoing calibration of the screening systems to manage financial crime risk, aligned to policy requirements and risk appetite. This includes the design, development and ongoing review of system rules, parameters and threshold settings to optimise the performance of the systems.

• Exploring new developments in technology to improve the performance of the screening solutions and strengthen the control framework

• Supporting change initiatives and projects that impact the Financial Crime systems, including but not limited to defining the system requirements, test script execution and implementation support

• Developing consistent, accurate, and timely Management Information (MI) to support performance reporting & governance requirements, ensuring timely escalation of emerging risks and issues

• Conducting high volume data analytics across VMUK’s customer, account and transactions data to inform the development of the financial crime systems

• Proven experience in the development & ongoing configuration of name screening solutions including Adverse Media screening

• Knowledge and experience of working with Experian’s Hunter screening solution (or similar).

• Experience of NetReveal Watch List Manager (WLM) module (or similar).

• Ability to conduct data analysis using Oracle SQL or SAS Enterprise Guide.

• Experience of working with watch list data including PEPs, Sanctions & Adverse Media.

• Knowledge of the control framework including control testing for name screening solutions.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience of using data visualisation tools such as Power BI

• Exposure to payment screening, transaction monitoring or automated customer risk assessment.

• Generous holidays – 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part-Time) plus the option to buy more.

• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.

• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.

• Market-leading pension.

• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.

• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.