FinCrime Compliance – Assurance Officer
United Kingdom
Full Time
5 hours ago
$50,000 - $60,000 GBP
No Sponsorship
Key skills
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About this role
Role Overview
- Execute Chip’s Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring Plan end-to-end, across AML, fraud, sanctions, PEPs, and broader financial crime controls.
- Apply data analytics and AI-assisted tooling confidently across your monitoring work.
- Produce clear assurance reports with actionable findings for relevant governance forums.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide risk assessments (EWRA).
- Identify and flag control gaps, contributing to recommendations for improvement.
- Support horizon scanning activity with gap analysis, monitoring regulatory developments.
- Review and assess internal Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
- Assist with the handling of Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) requests.
- Maintain meaningful MI to track financial crime risks, control performance, and monitoring outcomes.
- Contribute to the MLRO Annual Report, including drafting sections on financial crime risk.
Requirements
- You’ll have around 5 years' of financial crime experience, including at least half that time in a 2LoD role.
- Experience across both lines of defence experience are required.
- Experience in a retail savings, investment, or wealth management environment is advantageous.
- Thorough, hands-on knowledge of the UK Financial Crime regulatory framework.
- Proven experience conducting compliance monitoring and assurance reviews.
- Experience contributing to enterprise-wide risk assessments.
- Direct experience with SAR drafting, review, and escalation decisions.
- Working knowledge of KYC controls, PEP and sanctions screening processes, EDD obligations, and high-risk customer processes.
- ICA, CAMS, or equivalent professional qualification is desirable, though not essential if experience is strong.
Benefits
- Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus.
- Workplace pension scheme
- We invest in your future with a workplace pension scheme , contributing 5% on earnings up to £50,000 .
- Private medical insurance (medical history disregarded)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
- Flexible working arrangements
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus the days between Christmas and New Year
- Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences to help you advance your career.
- £30 per month Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing.
- Company laptop.