Senior Financial Crime Analyst

Eames Consulting is currently partnering with a leading international insurer on the appointment of a Senior Financial Crime Analyst. This role will be based in London and aids the Head of Financial Crime in driving robust financial crime compliance outcomes across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, review, and provide timely responses to referrals and business inquiries related to financial crime, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
• Foster a compliance-focused culture by raising awareness of financial crime and compliance issues, ensuring alignment with relevant laws and regulations.
• Stay informed on relevant financial crime regulatory changes, particularly regarding UN, UK, EU, and US sanctions, fraud, and AML/CTF regulations.
• Assist in providing timely guidance to ensure the business's adherence to licensing and authorisation requirements and conditions.
• Aid in the process of AML-related verifications, including preparing responses to KYC requests from third parties.
• Review and assess financial crime screening alerts escalated to 2LOD, ensuring they are addressed promptly.
• Assist with the annual and ad-hoc reviews of financial crime-related policies and procedures, contributing to the broader Financial Crime Framework.
• Keep the Licensing & Financial Crime Schedule updated, ensuring financial crime indicators, permissions, and conditions are accurate.
• Help review any financial crime or licensing exceptions or escalations within the business.
• Assist with the investigation of financial crime-related incidents, including reporting to Action Fraud, NCA, OFSI, and FCA where applicable.
• Contribute to regular reports for key stakeholders, including relevant committees, on monitoring activities, assurance outputs, and high-risk business matters.
• Maintain accurate internal records and logs of advice, investigations, and issues to ensure a clear audit trail.

Key Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in financial crime advisory function, ideally within insurance.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Strong knowledge and experience in investigating fraud suspicious and involvement in implementing anti-fraud control frameworks.

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.