Financial Crime Specialist

Aviva; York; Hybrid; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job description

Financial Crime Specialist – Salary circa £32,000

We are currently recruiting for Financial Crime Specialists to perform financial crime reviews for our existing customer relationships across both our Corporate/Savings and Retirement portfolio. This could be the role for you if you have experience of conducting money laundering checks or working in a similar role!

A bit about the job:

You will perform financial crime reviews of our existing customer relationships across our Corporate/Savings and Retirement portfolio and ensure that all demands and work activity remain in service tolerance, proactively addressing any challenges in delivering service.

As part of the role, you will also:

• Perform Know Your Customer Due Diligence assessments.
• Perform Enhanced Due Diligence assessments of Corporate Entities at the New Business Onboarding stage and Ongoing Monitoring where appropriate and in a timely manner.
• Perform Transaction Monitoring.
• Perform PEP and Sanctions Screening.
• Accountable for ensuring all demands and work activity remain in service tolerance and are visible to the leadership team, proactively addressing any challenges in delivering service.
• Accountable for managing relevant Financial Crime controls and assessments.
• Provide assurance and oversight that operations are compliant with the Aviva Anti Money Laundering Standards.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Proven track record and experience in undertaking financial crime reviews, with a robust understanding of the methodology and UK regulatory requirements.
• Ability to assess and manage risk with the ability to make risk-based decisions, strong knowledge of Fraud, Anti Money Laundering, and broader Financial Crime regulations, along with a willingness to take personal responsibility and challenge the team to deliver good customer outcomes.
• Knowledge of Financial Crime processes including customer due diligence, enhanced customer due diligence, PEP and sanction screening, and monies in/out.
• Proven capability to simplify complex concepts and articulate them to varied audiences.
• Prior experience within the Financial Services and/or Insurance industry.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary: circa £32,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 8% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part-time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours, and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva, take a look here.

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