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SalaryConnells Group have an exciting opportunity working as a Financial Crime Analyst in our office in Milton Keynes. This is a new and exciting role to support the Group Head of Financial Crime Prevention in the delivery of an effective framework/oversight of all aspects of the Group’s standards and controls to prevent the Group being used to further Financial Crime.
Your Main responsibilities will include:
- Act as subject matter expert and provide technical and practical advice and guidance on general matters relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence (within Estate Agency, Lettings and Mortgage Services functions).
- Work alongside other business areas to support the implementation of Group AML procedures.
- Support Group functions with on-boarding and due diligence checks for various customer/transaction types (including Corporate, Power of Attorney, Trusts, Charities).
- Carry out research to establish whether PEP and Sanction Matches are genuine and determine whether escalation to senior management is required.
- Maintenance of Group HMRC (AML Supervision) Registrations ensuring that these remain up to date and that appropriate fees are paid on time.
- Identify and escalate at the earliest opportunity any regulatory issues to the CDD/Technical Managers in a clear and accurate manner.
- Assist with the preparation and review of internal procedures.
- Where required by Financial Crime Technical Manager, preparation and processing of Internal Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and reporting of SARs to the appropriate agencies in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
- Maintenance of the Group SAR Register in accordance with Compliance Functional Procedures.
- Attend Committees as agreed with the Financial Crime CDD Manager.
- Ad hoc support as directed by the Financial Crime CDD Manager.
Experience
Desirable:
- Relevant experience within Estate Agency, Financial Services or Lettings, or with particular knowledge of AML/KYC.
- Knowledge of Money Laundering Regulations 2017 and JMLSG Guidance.
- Understanding or experience of taking a Risk Based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence
Essential:
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to deliver high quality written work and reporting.
- Ability to assess the impact and relevance of issues and articulate them in a clear and precise manner.
- Good interpersonal and influencing skills and the credibility to work well with Senior Management and relevant external agencies.
- Ability to focus on a clear purpose and interpret key aspects of a dataset or task.
- Confidence to use own judgement and intuition, understanding when to escalate or seek guidance.
- Ability to build strong and effective working relationships with business areas.
- Articulate, confident communicator and presenter.
- Confident to provide appropriate and commercially aware challenge to business areas and management.
- Highly self-motivated with ability to prioritise time, to work unsupervised and to react to urgent situations.
- Relevant professional qualification or willingness to work toward this.
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