AML Screening Analyst
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10 hours ago
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Job Summary
Overview
The AML Screening Analyst will beresponsible for reviewing negative news PEP and sanctions alerts in the public domain relating to financial crimes including money laundering terrorist financing and other illicit transactions involving money or securities. The individual will handle escalations and inquiries within the AML function evaluate information to identify risk factors and deliver well-documented assessments to AML Officers based on investigative research.
Were looking for a proactive detail-oriented analyst with a strong interest in financial crime this role you will conduct ongoing name screening and help ensure that monitoring processes meet regulatory and internal policy standards. Youll thrive in a fast-paced environment handling multiple requests while maintaining high accuracy and professional judgment.
Responsibilities
General Duties
- Ensure that customers beneficial owners and other related parties are screened for sanctions PEP exposure and adverse media.
- Ensure that due diligence on customers is undertaken in line with the required standards.
- Ensure that positive matches are reviewed and documented in line with procedure and that the materiality of true matches is evaluated and escalated where necessary.
- Ensure that cases e-mails and requests are processed promptly and appropriately.
- Ensure that records are maintained systems of record are up to date and that notes and descriptions of actions taken etc are clear and comprehensive to support the audit trail of actions and decisions taken.
- Other duties as assigned from time to time.
Qualifications
Knowledge and Experience
- Ideally 1-3 years experience of working within a Client Onboarding / Compliance / Financial Crime / department with exposure to Money Laundering Sanctions and high-risk markets.
- Experience using a customer name screening tool e.g. WorldCheck or Lexis Nexis (to screen customers against Sanctions Politically exposed Persons lists and for negative News) is needed.
- Some knowledge and background of Sanctions KYC CDD AML Compliance - good knowledge of EU and UK regulations.
- Some knowledge and background of money laundering regulations corporate governance GDPR anti-bribery and corruption and tax compliance.
- Some knowledge of EU and UK Financial Services Regulation PSD2 MiFID EMIR SFTR would be an advantage.
Qualification and Skills
- Bachelors Degree in business law political science sociology and / or other appropriate discipline.
- Professional Compliance Qualification (ICA CAMS) - desirable.
- Advanced Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel skills.
Skills
- Team player.
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong relationship building and communications skills.
- Effective planning organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Fluent in English.
- Should be able to use good judgement and experience to articulate and document decision making rationale.
Working environment:
- Hybrid 4 Days a week in the office.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- ArcGIS
- Intelligence Community Experience
- GIS
- Python
- Computer Networking
- Data Collection
- Intelligence Experience
- R
- Relational Databases
- Analysis Skills
- Data Management
- Application Development
About Company
We are an institutional-grade financial services franchise that provides global market access, clearing and execution, trading platforms and more.
