Financial Crime Analyst

Your role at a glance

The role will involve reviewing screening alerts to identify and assess any business relationships with a Sanctioned Individual, Individuals convicted of a Financial Crime or a Politically Exposed Person (PEP). The role will also assist investigations completed by the GFC team and respond to questions raised by the business to the GFC Mailboxes.

What you’ll be doing

• Reviewing Sanction, Terrorism, PEP and Enforcement generated alerts to identify and risk assess matches, completing the respective risk assessments in an appropriate and timely manner and to a consistently high standard.
• Reviewing Legal & General systems, available data and investigative tools to assist Financial Crime Consultants with their investigations into Internal Suspicious Activity referrals.
• Responding to requests for information from Law Enforcement Agencies.
• Assisting in the production of reports suitable for senior management and external bodies, including FCA, Action Fraud and the National Crime Agency (NCA).
• Supporting the Head of Financial Crime in delivering an efficient Financial Crime risk framework. Assisting in the Identification of emerging financial crime/money laundering issues and risks and recommend appropriate mitigation.
• Providing accurate and beneficial advice and guidance relating to regulatory, anti-money laundering and Financial Crime matters to business areas and staff. Ensuring relevant legislation and industry guidance is referred to where required.
• Producing clear and to-the-point management information for various groups, committees and team meetings.
• Treating Customers Fairly: take responsibility to ensure that the needs of our customers internally and externally are met, and are in line with Legal and General’s Customer Experience and Treating Customer’s Fairly Policy.

What we’re looking for

• Relevant commercial or professional qualification (desirable)
• Excellent communication & Written skills
• Sufficient commercial perspective and overall knowledge of business sectors in which Legal & General operates and the Legal & General entities involved.
• Working knowledge of UK, EU & Global fraud and money laundering legislation
• Knowledge of investigation principles and practice in order to provide authoritative guidance to investigators.
• Understanding of Sanction and PEP requirements for UK entities.
• Understanding and experience of UK criminal law and its application to Financial Crime
• Understanding of UK regulatory framework
• Demonstrate ability to maintain effective relationships with management and external parties, such as suppliers and outsourcers, to enable the delivery of practical solutions to problems or the implementation of improved systems, processes or controls.
• Demonstrate high attention to detail and ability to work effectively, both individually and within a team.
• Ability to demonstrate a proactive approach while contributing to the development and implementation of a comprehensive Financial Crime Risk framework.
• Ability to analyse data within Excel using pivot tables and Vlookup. Demonstrates the ability to interrogate systems and extract data for the compilation of investigation reports
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure high quality delivery of management information and presentations in meetings and other forums

Benefits

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.