Analyst - Financial Crime Compliance in Manchester

Location & Travel

This role will be based in our Manchester office with occasional trips a few times a year to our London office for training, team building, and other ad-hoc events. (Travel costs will be covered by Saffery). Successful candidates will be required to work to a high level of accuracy to prescribed processes including:

Responsibilities

• Completing ongoing monitoring due diligence procedures in line with AML regulations.
• Performing research with third‑party tools and systems as part of KYC procedures and undertaking analysis of any potential risks that arise.
• Completing documentation and analysis of KYC information to validate client information and assess client risks.
• When information is missing or not in the public domain, interacting with stakeholders and taking ownership to obtain this information.
• Being motivated to take pride in their work and achieve the highest possible standards.

Qualifications & Attributes

• Minimum of two years’ experience in a similar role, or demonstrable transferable skills.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of KYC/AML requirements and how to complete processes and procedures related to regulatory client onboarding.
• 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 and 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.

Benefits

• A 35‑hour working week with flexibility around core hours of 10am‑4pm.
• Agile working policy giving the option to work from home for up to 3 days per week.
• 25 days of annual leave; after 5 years of service the entitlement will be increased by 1 day.
• Employees are entitled to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Contributory pension scheme—firm contributes 5% of salary on a matched basis with employee from date of joining.
• Life assurance cover of 4× annual salary.
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit‑Sharing Plan that runs from October to September each year; payment usually about £1,000, paid in December.
• Employee referral scheme—Assistant Manager level and below, including support staff, attract a referral reward of £5,000; Manager level or above attracts £10,000.
• New client referral scheme—staff introducing a new client to the firm can receive a referral payment of up to 10% of the first year’s total fees.
• Access to health assessments, cancer screenings and health cash plans through the flexible benefits program.
• Additional benefits with preferential rates under the flexible benefit program: 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 the contracted office.
• Saffery Champness is committed to being a fully inclusive employer with a strong focus on ED&I; upon joining the firm, employees can join various people‑network groups and the ED&I network.