Fraud Specialist in Aberford

Our Financial Crime Team works in partnership with our business to protect the Society and its members from financial crime. As a Fraud Specialist in this exciting role, you’ll play an important part in doing just that by protecting the Society from fraud.

About the role

As a Fraud Specialist, the day to day is extremely interesting and varied where you protect both YBS and our customers. Some tasks that you will be responsible for include:

• Responsible for managing the critical analysis and investigation of fraudulent activity (including mortgage, savings, & third-party fraud) including complex and sensitive cases.
• Perform transactional verification to protect customers and the Society against risk and loss.
• Provide timely and proportionate specialist technical fraud advice to colleagues across the business.
• Support the implementation plans across the fraud and wider Financial Crime Operational teams, to service level agreements and quality targets ensuring an exceptional customer/colleagues experience, protecting YBS and minimising losses or adverse reputational impact.

About you

The Fraud Specialist plays a very important role at YBS! What will you bring to the role?

• Experience of analysing fraudulent activity, autonomous decision making and meeting regulatory and legislative obligations to effectively protect both customers and the business.
• Robust understanding of financial crime regulations and legislation, specifically fraud related, but with sound AML knowledge.
• Experience of using fraud prevention systems such as National Hunter or CIFAS.
• Awareness of financial services industry, markets and competitors.
• Effective communication, engagement and influencing skills.

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.