Role Description
Help protect the organization from money laundering and other financial crime through risk assessment, monitoring, investigation, and compliance oversight. Evaluate customer and transaction information, document findings, and escalate concerns through established procedures within the assigned remit.
Key Responsibilities
- Review customer information, transactions, and alerts for potential financial crime indicators.
- Conduct customer due diligence and enhanced reviews according to assigned responsibilities.
- Analyze ownership structures, business activities, source of funds, and transaction patterns where relevant.
- Investigate unusual activity, assess available evidence, and document clear conclusions.
- Escalate suspicious activity and support reporting decisions by authorized personnel.
- Review screening matches and coordinate resolution of potential sanctions or other risk concerns.
- Maintain accurate case records, supporting evidence, and audit trails.
- Identify recurring patterns, control weaknesses, and emerging risks.
- Coordinate with operations, legal, fraud, sanctions, and other specialist teams.
- Support quality assurance, control testing, audits, and remediation activities.
- Protect sensitive information and follow restrictions on disclosure.
- Prepare management information and recommend process improvements.
Role-Specific Responsibilities
- AML Analyst: Focus on anti-money laundering controls, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, alert investigation, and suspicious activity escalation.
- Financial Crime Analyst: Analyze risks across assigned areas such as money laundering, fraud, sanctions, bribery, or corruption, coordinating with relevant specialists.
- Financial Crime Compliance Manager: Lead assigned compliance programs, oversee risk assessments and control effectiveness, review significant escalations, and manage teams, reporting, and remediation.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in AML, financial crime, compliance, investigations, banking operations, or a related field.
- Understanding of financial crime indicators, risk-based controls, and investigation procedures.
- Ability to analyze complex information and distinguish warning signs from substantiated findings.
- Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Clear case writing and effective stakeholder communication.
- Attention to detail and consistent documentation.
- Familiarity with monitoring, screening, case management, or analytical systems.
- Sound judgment, professional integrity, and discretion.
- A degree in finance, accounting, law, business, criminology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- For manager roles, experience leading compliance activities, reviewing complex cases, and overseeing control improvements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant credentials such as CAMS, ICA qualifications, CFE, or an equivalent certification.
- Experience with higher-risk customers, complex ownership structures, or cross-border activity.
- Familiarity with data analysis, monitoring scenarios, and alert quality reviews.
- Experience supporting regulatory examinations, audits, or remediation programs.
- Relevant industry knowledge and understanding of the organization’s products and customer base.
Scope by Role
- AML Analyst: Investigates money laundering indicators and supports the operation of AML controls.
- Financial Crime Analyst: Assesses and investigates financial crime risks across designated disciplines.
- Financial Crime Compliance Manager: Oversees financial crime compliance delivery and governance within delegated authority; designated reporting responsibilities apply only where formally assigned.