Financial Crime Specialist in London

As a Specialist within the Group Financial Crime Compliance (GFCC) Team, you will have an instrumental role for supporting and promoting the financial crime framework throughout Schroders. Reporting into a Senior Manager, you will work closely with the team and key business stakeholders across all Schroders locations to advise on all aspects of financial crime; anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions, tax evasion, and investigations.

What you'll do:

• Design and continually develop operational processes to support delivery of the wider Group Financial Crime Framework.
• Conduct deep dive reviews of operational activity supporting the Group Financial Crime Framework to ensure processes are working as expected.
• Support with the ongoing oversight of Group Entities and Third Parties utilised to support activity carried out across Schroders.
• Take a proactive role in supporting the Team with maintenance of any critical systems/tools used to support the delivery of the Group Financial Crime Framework.
• Respond to advisory based queries sent to Financial Crime via a centralised inbox.
• Ensure escalation of any higher risk scenarios, supporting in delivery of any agreed actions as a result.
• Oversee and action activity required in monitoring tools such as the escalation of name screening or transaction monitoring alerts generated with a suitable rationale.
• Review regulatory developments and horizon scanning notifications to ensure the framework implemented remains current.
• Support with reviews of financial sanction directives, ensuring these are appropriately coded for in supporting tools.
• Support in the production of Management Information for ongoing reporting requirements, as required.
• Where required, support in the provision of training to the wider business.
• Build close working relationships with stakeholders across the global business to maintain your understanding and knowledge of business activity, client relationships, etc.
• Attend appropriate industry groups to keep informed of current or prospective regulatory developments and industry best practices, as appropriate to your role.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need:

• Degree or equivalent industry recognised qualification.
• Demonstrable interest and experience in financial crime risks and operational output to support controls mitigating risk.
• Proven ability to identify and escalate possible issues and/or concerns to Senior Management.
• Proven ability to communicate with others in the organisation across functional boundaries.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help:

• Experience within Asset or Wealth Management would be helpful, although we will teach you the business.
• An understanding of, and interest in, financial crime regulation and legislation.
• Proven experience in supporting monitoring and oversight activities as well as maintaining tools utilised by business areas.

What you’ll be like:

• Curious and motivated to build and maintain a strong understanding of Schroders’ business model, products and operating environment, applying this insight to your day-to-day role.
• Committed to continuous learning, proactively developing your knowledge and capability across financial crime risk areas and emerging topics.
• Proactive and solutions-focused, spotting issues early and working collaboratively with colleagues and your manager to assess impacts, agree actions and deliver improvements.
• Relationship-oriented and credible, building effective partnerships across the GFCC team and the wider business, and acting as a trusted, approachable adviser.
• Clear and inclusive communicator, able to tailor messages to different audiences and explain complex issues in a straightforward way.
• Well organised and accountable, managing priorities and deadlines effectively, and seeking support or guidance when needed to deliver high-quality outcomes.

We recognise potential, whoever you are. Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.