Financial Crime Compliance Specialist
Core
Investigate end-to-end financial crime escalations (transaction monitoring, fraud, adverse media, PEPs) and decide outcomes including NCA reporting.
Role type
2nd line Financial Crime Compliance Specialist (AML/Sanctions)
Builds
Defensible evidence packages and regulatory disclosures (SARs/DAML)
Domain
UK Financial Services / Anti-Money Laundering / Sanctions
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Financial crime investigations, SAR/DAML submission, POCA 2002 knowledge, Typology analysis (ML/Fraud/Sanctions/PEP), Independent judgement, Written communication
Preferred skills
2nd line experience, Challenging 1st line quality
Technologies
SAR Portal, NCA systems
Responsibilities
Investigate 1LOD escalations (alerts, fraud, adverse media, PEPs), Build evidence via transaction analysis and KYC/CDD review, Decide maintain/offboard/report outcomes, Draft and submit SARs and DAML requests, Sequence offboarding without tipping off, Handle sensitive HR referrals, Maintain audit-ready case records, Feed typology trends to 1LOD
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC