Financial Crime Operations – Projects

Northreach have partnered with a leading international bank who are on the hunt for a Financial Crime Specialist to support with their Financial Crime related projects.

In this role, you will oversee the whole of Financial Crime Operations from a projects perspective. You will be reporting into the COO and will be working to implement and effectively deliver financial crime related projects relating to risk, controls testing, transaction and customer screening and suspicious activity reporting.

• OARM (Oracle Adaptive Risk Manager)
  – Test scenarios for all phases of the projects under UAT and delivering appropriate feedback to the IT Foreign Office/Systems Department
  – Review the rules of all scenarios of the project for assessing the system
  – Analysing MI generated by the OARM and feeding back to management
  – Provide training as a Financial Crime Subject Matter Expert within the team
  – Co-ordinate with stakeholders for successful implementation of the project
  – Review and analyse the output reports
• Name Screening Project
  – Rolling out the project in a live environment
  – Streamlining processes for attending/discounting live queries
  – Putting process manuals in place to deal with name screening
  – Provide feedback/recommendation on the effectiveness of the system
  – Provide training to the stakeholders to carry out name screening
  – Co-ordinate with stakeholders regarding the implementation of the project
  – Review and analysis
• PRM (Proactive Risk Manager) Project
  – Successfully implement the project
  – Analyse the MI to explore enhancements of the system
  – Co-ordinate with stakeholders to implement the project
• Ace Pelican
  – Offer training as a Financial Crime Subject Matter Expert within the FCO team, and other departments
  – Analyse the system and completing model building exercise to enhance and strengthen the Ace Pelican system
  – Ensure appropriate SoPs are in place for the activities of the team
  – Co-ordinate with respective stakeholders for implementation of the project
• Manage and train team members for successful implementation of the project
• Performing ad hoc activities assigned by senior management
• Maintaining MI and tracker for progress of projects for updating senior management on regular intervals

• Strong experience of business activities and compliance within banking, linking to the FCA/PRA and other regulators
• Knowledge of retail and commercial banking products including SWIFT
• Experience and understanding of an AML Transaction Monitoring and Transaction Screening environment within financial crime
• Knowledge of regulations relating to KYC, AML, Sanctions and Fraud
• Knowledge and experience of handling complex transactions
• Experience in identifying unusual/suspicious transactions and outlining rationale
• Experience in taking a risk based approach relating to AML processes