Financial Crime Analyst

Connells Group have an exciting opportunity working as a Financial Crime Analyst in our offices in Milton Keynes. Your role will be to work within the Financial Crime Prevention team to support the field with completion of customer due diligence, and to assist with the delivery of an effective framework/ oversight of Group standards and controls to prevent the Group being used to further financial crime.

Key responsibilities as a Financial Crime Analyst include:

• Support Group Estate Agency, Lettings and Mortgage Services functions with on-boarding and due diligence checks for various customers/ transaction types (including Corporate entities, Power of Attorney cases, Trusts, Charities, Deceased Estates).
• Carryout research into potential PEP and Sanction Matches to determine whether escalation to senior management is required.
• Handle queries from and work with the business to assist with technical and practical advice relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Customer Due Diligence.
• Assist with preparation and review of internal procedures.
• Work alongside Divisional Training team to support delivery of training and implantation of procedures if required
• Provide support to other areas of the FCP team as directed by the team’s Senior Analyst or the Financial Crime Technical Manager / Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Manager.

Key skills and experience of a Financial Crime Analyst:

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality written work and reporting.
• Articulate, confident communicator and presenter, comfortable providing challenge to the business where required.
• Confidence to use own judgement and intuition, understanding when to escalate or seek guidance. Good interpersonal and influencing skills, and the ability to build strong and effective working relationships.
• Highly self-motivated with ability to prioritise time, to work unsupervised and to react to urgent situations.
• Relevant professional qualification (or willingness to work towards).
• Experience within the Estate Agency, Financial Services or Lettings industry, or with particular knowledge of Anti Money Laundering (AML)and Know Your Customer (KYC) is ideal but not essential.
• Understanding / experience of taking a Risk Based Approach to AML, knowledge of Money Laundering Regulations and Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG)

Connells Group is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide. Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions

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