Financial Crime Specialist - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Legal & General Investment Management

Legal & General Investment Management

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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VN24638Role Type
PermanentLocation
CardiffSalary
Competitive salary, bonus and benefitsClosing Date
20 January 2023Your role at a glance
We are currently hiring a Financial Crime Specialist to join our growing team.

The role will be to remediate and perform appropriate levels of Enhanced Due Diligence reviews of high risk customers identified through matched screening alerts and other high risk factors in compliance with regulations and L&G Group policies.

The role will require thorough analysis of data and information held on customers across L&G systems to support a reasonable and accurate assessment of the financial crime risk.

You will be required to present completed Customer Due Diligence & Enhanced Due Diligence to key stakeholders and senior management for approval.

What you'll be doing

Review and remediate previously identified cases within a High Risk Customer database.
Use existing and/or publicly available information to conduct riskbased Customer Due Diligence or Enhanced Due diligence in an agreed format across multiple customer and product types.
Location and capture of information to support a risk based decision on the specified documentation format
Submission and tracking of customer Enhance Due Diligence to Senior management for risk profiling and assessment, providing any supporting context or analysis to Senior management to facilitate the decision. The ability to assess and analyse information across multiple product and risk types
Provide accurate and beneficial timely communications and guidance relating to regulatory, antimoney laundering and Financial Crime matters associated to KYC assessments and due diligence processing.
Provide daily updates on progress to completion across defined stages of the Enhanced Due Diligence process. Provide accurate and beneficial timely communications and guidance relating to regulatory, antimoney laundering and Financial Crime matters associated to KYC assessments and due diligence processing.
Identify and escalate any issues or risks that require further assistance from financial crime advisory specialists or management.
Ensure accurate entry of data in the CDD & EDD records or systems. Identify and escalate any issues or risks that require further assistance from financial crime advisory specialists or management.
Prepare Customer Outreach requirements in an efficient manner and
Treating Customers Fairly: take responsibility to ensure that the needs of our customers internally and externally are met and are in line with Legal and General's Customer Experience and Treating Customer's Fairly Policy. Ensure accurate entry of data in the CDD & EDD records or systems.

What we're looking for

Relevant Financial Crime, commercial or professional qualification (desirable)
Knowledge of the UK financial crime Regulatory framework within a Financial Services environment and across all risk domains; ML/TF, Sanctions, Bribery, Tax Evasion, Fraud & Market Abuse.
An awareness of the measures required to conduct Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence as used within the Financial Service Industry (Asset Management and Insurance experience is desirable but not essential)
The ability to analyse the Financial Crime risks posed by customers, and the subsequent actions to be taken to provide documentary evidence to demonstrate appropriate considerations that should be taken by the firm to provide levels of control
Excellent communication & written skills with the ability to articulate and summarise financial crime risks and mitigating factors in a clear and consistent manner.
Sufficient commercial perspective and overall knowledge of business sectors in which Legal & General operates and the Legal & General entities involved.
Understanding of Financial Crime Risk in Insurance, Retirement and Asset Management businesses.

Benefits:

When you commit to Legal & General, we'll commit to you too. That means we'll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you'll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, at least 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection.

You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice.

We're also proud to offer competitive family leave.

You'll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.

And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.