Senior Financial Crime Analyst

Join to apply for the Senior Financial Crime Analyst role at Taylor Wessing UK. Taylor Wessing is a global law firm working with some of the world’s most innovative businesses. We are seeking a Senior Financial Crime Analyst to join our Risk Management team. This is a pivotal role, acting as the main point of escalation for financial crime matters across the firm, including AML, counter-terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions, and tax evasion prevention. You’ll work closely with the Head of Risk and Business Acceptance Manager, providing expert guidance and ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary escalation point for financial crime matters within the Business Acceptance team.
• Advise on sanctions applicability and determine if issues require SAR submission to the NCA.
• Draft SARs for approval by the Business Acceptance Manager and MLRO.
• Oversee ongoing monitoring processes for relevant clients and support implementation.
• Monitor and research sanctions notices, updating processes as needed.
• Provide expert advice to partners and fee earners on financial crime-related matters.
• Ensure compliance with anti-bribery and corruption policies by monitoring the gifts and hospitality register.
• Stay current with legislative and regulatory changes, supporting policy development.
• Assist with training needs identification and delivery within the Business Acceptance team.
• Support regulatory visits, audits, and annual AML reviews.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Advanced knowledge of financial crime regulations and best practices (AML, sanctions, anti-bribery, tax evasion prevention).
• Proven experience in a compliance, risk, or financial crime role within a professional services or regulated environment.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to manage complex issues.
• Excellent communication skills to advise stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – offering the opportunity to work remotely while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices three days a week.
• Holiday – our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December; you may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave – after one-year service you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm’s core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We’re creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that’s large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world’s most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.