Financial Crime Officer - London, United Kingdom - Evelyn Partners

Description

Job Purpose

The Financial Crime Team within Evelyn Partners sits at Group level and is responsible for the Governance, Reporting, Prevention and Detection of Financial Crime. Our role includes but is not limited to developing policies and procedures, generating MI, transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, reviewing escalations and advising the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Sanctions/PEP/Enforcement Screening – Ensure that procedures are in place for screening clients and that all potential matches are promptly investigated and escalated where required.
• Enhanced due diligence/high risk clients - Deal with escalations from the Onboarding and Vetting teams. Review and approve EDD for higher-risk potential clients, escalating concerns to the FS Lead, or MLRO as appropriate.
• AML - Assist with providing appropriate, consistent advice on financial crime matters to line management and staff, escalating issues as necessary. Assist with general financial crime matters and ad-hoc reviews as required
• Ongoing Enhanced Due Diligence – Overseeing ongoing monitoring of higher-risk clients.
• Management Information - Support in the population of data for monthly compliance reports, financial crime dashboards and any other ad hoc reports when required
• Transaction Monitoring - Assist in the monitoring of automated payment alerts.
• Market abuse - Investigate reports or escalations of potential market abuse and escalate and liaise with the authorities, as appropriate.
• Financial Crime policies and procedures – Assist in the maintenance of all financial crime registers and logs to ensure accurate record keeping

Key Skills and Experience

• Experience in a market abuse, preferably with experience of complex structures. - Required
• Experience working in Financial Services - Required
• Good inter-personal skills, with a determined and proactive approach - Required
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to convince and persuade others, specifically directors, using diplomacy to convey to the business the necessity of their active participation in financial crime matters - Required
• Good level of computer literacy - ability to utilise internal systems etc., with good writing skills - Required
• Strong analysis skills and sound judgement with the ability to analyse correctly in a timely manner, making systematic and rational judgement based on relevant information and experience - Required
• Willingness to maintain up-to-date knowledge of the rules, regulations and guidance in respect of all aspects of financial crime and keep abreast of relevant financial developments that may affect the industry and understand their potential impact on the business - Required
• Good Excel Skills including V-Lookups and Pivot tables - Required