Financial Crime Analyst

Job Title: Financial Crime Analyst
Location: Leighton Buzzard or Milton Keynes
Salary: £19,000 – £24,000 - negotiable based on individual experience
Benefits: 25 days holiday/career progression/pension scheme/gym discount/Perks at Work

Connells Group have an exciting opportunity to join our Compliance Team. Based in either MK or LB, you will support the Group Head of Financial Crime Prevention in the delivery of an effective framework/oversight of all aspects of the Group’s standards and controls to prevent the Group being used to further financial crime.

Activities and Deliverables of a Financial Crime Analyst:

• Act as subject matter expert and provide technical and practical advice and guidance on general matters relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence (within Estate Agency, Lettings and Mortgage Services functions).
• Work alongside other business areas to support the implementation of Group AML procedures.
• Support Group functions with on-boarding and due diligence checks for various customer/transaction types (including Corporate, Power of Attorney, Trusts, Charities).
• Carry out research to establish whether PEP and Sanction Matches are genuine and determine whether escalation to senior management is required.
• Maintenance of Group HMRC Registrations ensuring that these remain up to date and that appropriate fees are paid on time.
• Identify and escalate at the earliest opportunity any regulatory issues
• Preparation and review of internal procedures.
• Preparation and processing of Internal Suspicious Activity Reports.
• Maintenance of the Group SAR Register in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
• Review and processing of Information Requests and maintenance of the Group Information Request Register in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
• Support HoFCP and Technical Manager with handling Whistleblows / Internal Investigations.
• Attend Committees as agreed with the Financial Crime Technical/CDD Manager.

Key Skills and Experience Required of a Financial Crime Analyst:

• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver high quality written work and reporting.
• Ability to assess the impact and relevance of issues and articulate them in a clear and precise manner.
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills and the credibility to work well with Senior Management and relevant external agencies.
• Ability to focus on a clear purpose and interpret key aspects of a dataset or task.
• Confidence to use own judgement and intuition, understanding when to escalate or seek guidance.
• Ability to build strong and effective working relationships with business areas.
• Confident to provide appropriate and commercially aware challenge to business areas and management.
• Highly self-motivated with ability to prioritise time, to work unsupervised and to react to urgent situations.
• Ideally a relevant degree/professional qualification or willingness to work toward this.

About Us:

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.

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