Senior Analyst – Financial Crime Compliance – Ongoing Monitoring in London

The Financial Crime Compliance Team (FCC Team) forms part of Saffery’s wider risk management regime. This role will be based in our London office.

Role: The successful candidate will be required to work to a high level of accuracy to prescribed processes including:

• Completing ongoing monitoring due diligence procedures in line with AML regulations.
• Performing research using public sources and third-party tools and systems as part of KYC procedures whilst undertaking analysis of any potential risks that arise.
• Completing documentation and analysis of KYC information to validate client information and assess client risks.
• Interacting with stakeholders to obtain missing information or information not in the public domain.
• Being motivated to take pride in their work and achieve the highest possible standards and KPIs.

You: The ideal candidate will have experience in client KYC/ongoing monitoring, ideally in a large accountancy firm or other professional services business (e.g., a large law practice). However, other standout candidates with transferable skills and aptitude may be considered. We are looking for somebody who has the following attributes:

• A minimum of two years’ experience in a similar role, or demonstrable transferable skills gained in similarly challenging roles.
• Ideally some experience acting as a subject matter expert to assist junior colleagues with complex cases.
• A good working knowledge and understanding of KYC/AML requirements and how to complete processes and procedures related to regulatory client on-boarding.
• Demonstrated history of dealing with senior staff/partners within a business to achieve desired outcomes.
• Proven ability to work independently and apply prior learnings to current scenarios.
• Excellent communication and internal relationship management skills.
• Proven ability to quickly understand and multitask across several IT applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel, as a minimum.
• Strong literacy/numeracy with excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to work to specified KPIs and demanding deadlines.
• Proven ability to absorb and build an understanding of complex information and articulate the same in a specified format.
• Confidence to tackle scenarios/tasks that are unfamiliar and arrive at logical and pragmatic resolutions.

Salary/Benefits:

• A 35-hour working week with flexibility around the core hours of 10am-4pm.
• Agile working policy giving you the option to work from home for up to 3 days per week.
• 25 days of annual leave. After 5 years’ service, the entitlement will be increased by 1 day.
• Employees are entitled to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday a year.
• Contributory pension scheme (The firm will contribute 5% of salary on a matched basis with employee from their date of joining).
• Life assurance cover of 4 x annual salary.
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan that runs from October to September each year.
• Payment is usually c£1,000, paid in December.
• Employee referral scheme: Assistant Manager level and below, including support staff, will attract a referral reward of £5,000; Manager level or above, will attract a referral reward of £10,000.
• New client referral scheme: Members of staff introducing a new client to the firm have the potential to receive a referral payment of up to 10% of the first year’s total fees.
• Staff have access to health assessments, cancer screenings and health cash plans through the flexible benefits program.
• Access to a number of additional benefits with preferential rates under the flexible benefit program, including health cash plans, health screening/GP support, critical illness cover, dental and travel insurance, Techscheme, Cyclescheme, Gymflex and a Workplace ISA.
• Paid travel expenses when working at offices other than your contracted office.

Saffery is committed to being a fully inclusive employer and has a huge focus on ED&I.