Senior Financial Crime Investigator - Quality Checking

Business Unit: COO, Risk Operations
Salary Range: £32,800 - £41,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Remote with quarterly attendance at a Hub
Contract Type: Permanent full-time

Our Team
As the Economic Crime landscape continues to evolve with ongoing regulatory changes, this position is critical in ensuring compliance and operational excellence. You’ll be responsible for conducting thorough quality checks across all areas of our financial crime processes, helping to safeguard the integrity of our operations and uphold quality standards.
You’ll play a key role in ensuring quality and compliance across customer risk assessments, transaction monitoring, and PEP and sanctions screening. This includes adhering to internal standard operating procedures and upholding regulatory requirements by applying subject matter expertise in financial crime.
In addition, you’ll contribute to broader responsibilities typically handled by senior investigators, such as performance management, coaching, and staff development. You’ll work closely with the wider central functions team to support continuous improvement and operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing
• Conducting comprehensive quality checks across all areas of Financial Crime Operations to ensure compliance and operational integrity.
• Upholding internal standard operating procedures and regulatory requirements through expert application of financial crime knowledge.
• Ensuring quality and compliance in key areas including:
• Customer risk assessments
• Transaction monitoring
• Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) and sanctions screening
• Collaborating with the Central Functions team to drive continuous improvement and maintain high operational standards.
• Supporting performance management initiatives by contributing to staff coaching and development.
• Recognising and highlighting any trends and working with the financial crime training team to develop ongoing training needs.

We need you to have
• The ability to make informed decisions based on case data and internal processes.
• Experience of working within a financial crime environment and demonstrable working knowledge of subject areas such as transaction monitoring, customer risk assessments and customer screening.
• Positive, organised, and confident behaviours.
• Strong verbal and writing communication skills, including conflict management and resolution, report creation and presentation, and delivering feedback to staff with different experience levels.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to present findings in a clear and concise manner to senior stakeholders.
• The ability to work autonomously with excellent time management skills.

It’s a bonus if you have…but not essential
• Relevant ICA qualification or willingness to work towards this.
• Experience working in a Quality Control environment weather that be checking or assurance.

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early, please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

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Now the legal bit
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