Financial Crime Investigator (Screening)

Business Unit: COO, Financial Crime Service Delivery
Salary Range: £24,000 – £30,000 per annum
Location: UK Hybrid with occasional travel to hub – Glasgow, Gosforth, Leeds

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Live up to your potential. Live a life more Virgin.

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We’ve got some brilliant opportunities for enthusiastic and motivated people to join our team as a Financial Crime Investigator. In this role you will undertake Financial Crime Investigations and subsequent required actions through having specialist knowledge and expertise in anti-money laundering, Client Screening, terrorist financing and tax evasion. The specific roles we are currently recruiting for here are for the Client Screening team which focuses on Sanctions, PEPs and other screening areas.

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What you’ll be doing

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• Effectively deliver 1st Line Financial Crime activities and processes, within quality and performance objectives, ensuring service delivery which enhances the customer experience and ensures we operate within regulatory requirements.

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• Complete initial Sanction, PEP and AML investigations including assessment of PEPs against VMUK definition and immediately escalate any true matches, providing full information and analysis and outlining the potential impact.

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• Investigate anti-money laundering transaction monitoring alerts, including performing Know Your Customer and Customer Due Diligence and interrogating financial data to assess the likelihood of financial crime.

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• Effectively identify and escalate suspected money laundering, confirmed PEPs or true sanction matches to Financial Crime Managers.

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• Reviewing High Risk Jurisdiction referrals including transactional activity and source of wealth/source of funds analysis.

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• Respond to legal orders and police liaison for all VMUK enquiries and court documents, ensuring compliance to court timeframes. This includes court attendance on behalf of VMUK Plc.

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• The working days of this role are specifically Tuesday to Saturday with Sunday and Monday as non-working days.

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We need you to have

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• Proven experience in a financial crime environment.

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• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse detailed information and be able to draw sophisticated conclusions and/or recommendations from the facts/data provided

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• A keen eye for detail and the ability to present finding and insight from investigations in a clear, concise, and professional manner

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• The ability to work independendtly while managing multiple priorities and deadlines effectively

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• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across teams

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• Proficiency in Microsoft Office with excel knowledge

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It’s a bonus if you have…but not essential

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• Experience of any AML Prevention, Detection or Investigation system.

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• Experience of any Sanction, PEP’s & Transaction Monitoring system.

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• Knowledge of anti-money laundering and screening policies and procedures.

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• Relevant ICA qualification.

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• Experience of investment products.

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We really need you to have the skills and experience listed on the section above (There are a few essentials you need to bring), but the rest is just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!

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Red Hot Rewards

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

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

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

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• Market-leading pension.

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

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

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

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Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

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We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

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Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

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As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

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Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

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If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks. 

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