Senior Financial Crime Investigator, Anti Money Laundering (AML)
Monzo Bank
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £29,450 - £37,250 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Analysing potentially unusual or suspicious behaviour on customer accounts flagged by our transaction monitoring system, and deciding what action Monzo should take.
- Documenting suspicious activity you identify in your role, and sending it to the National Crime Agency to support them with their investigations.
- Locking down money that has been obtained through fraud, so that it can be returned to victims.
- Completing cheque Reviews.
- Reviewing SARs from other colleagues within AML.
- Deals with Senior escalations from other departments.
- Leading by example to achieve all performance and Quality targets.
- Working with Team Managers and Operations Analysts to assist the pillar getting the right outcomes for Monzo and our customers.
- Sharing emerging risks and trends you spot with our Operations Analysts.
- Coaching and training.
- Completing remediation tasks.
Requirements
- Experience conducting investigations in an operational setting with subject matter expertise preferably in AML.
- Recent experience with emerging financial crime trends and typologies.
- Hold, or are happy to work towards, an ICA International Certificate in Anti Money Laundering, or similar industry qualification.
- Excellent English written & verbal communication skills.
- Confidence in investigating and problem solving, with a clear and concise view to decision-making and can take a risk based approach.
- Ability to work well independently & be collaborative with the wider team.
- Ability to work to deadlines, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Worked in a targeted environment.
- Experience of coaching and training ability to support colleagues.
- Values driven approach in line with Monzo’s core values.
Benefits
- £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
- Guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period.
- Fully UK remote based role.
- Lots more benefits available.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
investigationstransaction monitoringsuspicious activity documentationcheque reviewsSARs reviewremediation tasksfinancial crime trendsproblem solvingdecision-makingtargeted environment
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationindependenceattention to detailcoachingtrainingleadershipperformance targetsquality targetsvalues driven approach
Certifications
ICA International Certificate in Anti Money Laundering