Compliance/ Financial Crime Associate - Banking

Investigo are supporting an International Wholesale Banking client based in Knightsbridge to recruit a 12 month fixed term contract Compliance Officer role.

You will be joining a well-established mid-sized compliance team, doing a generalist compliance role with financial crime aspects to the role also.

The salary for this role is up to £60,000 per annum.

Main duties will cover:

• Gap analysis on compliance policies and procedures, and country specific regulatory guidelines.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on any change in compliance policies and procedures and ensure that the banks standard operating procedures are aligned to meet UK legal and regulatory requirements
• Provide SME compliance advisory to country level stakeholders on AML/CTF/Sanctions and Compliance related matters
• Define and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure that existing financial crime and Compliance processes are within Risk Appetite and in line with regulatory expectations
• Determine, review and monitor regular completion of the Compliance Monitoring Plan tasks and associated reporting requirements
• Submit timely and accurate reporting of performed quality risk assessments and reviews
• Identify potential AML & Compliance process or policy improvements and communicate findings and recommendation to quality assurance management team
• Provide guidance and training, where required on areas of improvement
• Perform ongoing validation of monitoring strategies to ensure appropriate AML and Compliance governance and control
• Draft, validate and submit reports to regulators on FinCrime and Compliance matters

Experience Required:

• 3-5 years experience of regulatory compliance and/or financial crime within a banking (ideally wholesale) environment
• Knowledge of PRA/FCA Regulatory Compliance standards
• In-depth knowledge of the UK AML/CTF and Sanctions regimes and experience in other Financial Crime compliance standards (ABC, Tax Evasion and Fraud)

**The bank operate by working 2 weeks in the office per month, then the following two weeks is based working from home.