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About the Role
This role sits within the Financial Crime Compliance Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). The role supports second-line investigations into unusual activity reports, assessing grounds for suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing and escalating cases.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex unusual activity investigations, documenting analysis, evidence, conclusions, and recommended next steps.
- Escalate potentially suspicious activity to the MLRO or Nominated Officer for SAR determination and prepare/submit SARs through the NCA portal.
- Liaise with Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) when required.
- Build effective stakeholder relationships by attending and presenting at relevant committees and forums.
- Conduct deep-dive reviews of transactional activity and thematic reviews, identifying findings and control gaps, and presenting conclusions and recommendations.
- Support the effective day-to-day operation of the FIU, producing management information, maintaining procedures, and identifying process improvement opportunities.
- Provide advice and guidance on Financial Crime matters.
- Prepare and facilitate Financial Crime training where appropriate.
- Assess, coordinate, and respond to requests for information (RFIs), ensuring accuracy, authorization, and timely completion.
- Identify gaps in knowledge, policy, or procedure and facilitate solutions.
Requirements
- A minimum of two years’ relevant experience in a financial crime role.
- Demonstrable responsibility for complex investigations, unusual activity escalations, or financial crime advisory work.
- Strong understanding of complex financial crime typologies, including trade-based money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, tax evasion, and sanctions evasion.
- Experience managing unusual activity escalations with documented analysis, decisions, and rationale.
- Practical working knowledge of the UK financial crime framework, including the Money Laundering Regulations, Proceeds of Crime Act, Terrorism Act, UK sanctions requirements, and JMLSG Guidance.
- Ability to interpret regulatory developments and apply them in a business context.
- Stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial crime issues clearly and influence appropriate outcomes.
- Banking experience, including knowledge of payments and SWIFT.
- Experience of higher-risk jurisdictions or emerging markets is desirable.
- Knowledge of correspondent banking and experience reviewing large transaction sets to identify risks or red flags.
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Organised with strong attention to detail
- Demonstrates self-motivation and a positive, proactive attitude
- Ability to manage own caseload
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Maintain a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in a high volume/tight deadline driven environment
- Contributes to maintaining and improving the quality of FIU services and outputs by identifying and supporting practical improvement initiatives.
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Minimum of two years’ relevant experience
Education Level
- Relevant professional qualification (e.g. ICA, ACAMS AML or equivalent) is desirable
Benefits
- Contributory personal pension plan
- Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Discretionary Bonus
- Competitive Annual Leave
- 2 Volunteering Days
- Benefit Hub
About the Company
- Crown Agents Bank is a regulated UK bank connecting emerging and frontier markets to the world using FX and payments technology.
- We transform payments and FX in emerging markets, reducing friction and increasing access to global financial infrastructure.
- Our solutions address challenges of complexity, cost, unreliability, and opacity in emerging markets payments.
- We leverage deep relationships, network strength, and innovative digital capabilities to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations, and banks to move money globally.