Business Unit: COO, Financial Crime Salary range: £24,000 - £30,000 per annum per annum DOE red-hot benefits Location: UK Hybrid with occasional travel to Gosforth/ Glasgow /Gosforth Live up to your potential. Live a life more Virgin. We’ve got a brilliant opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated person to join our team as a Financial Crime Investigator. In this role you will undertake Financial Crime Investigations and subsequent required actions through having specialist knowledge and expertise in anti-money laundering, Client Screening, terrorist financing and tax evasion. What you’ll be doing Effectively deliver 1st Line Financial Crime activities and processes, within quality and performance objectives, ensuring service delivery which enhances the customer experience and ensures we operate within regulatory requirements. Complete initial Sanction, PEP and AML investigations including assessment of PEPs against VMUK definition and immediately escalate any potential true matches, providing full information and analysis and outlining the potential impact. Investigate anti-money laundering transaction monitoring alerts, including performing Know Your Customer and Customer Due Diligence and interrogating financial data to assess the likelihood of financial crime. Work with the 2nd line Financial Crime team to provide advice and guidance to 1st line colleagues, documenting the guidance to strengthen financial crime controls to prevent future reoccurrence where possible. Document and escalate new and emerging financial crime trends and system performance in a way that can be communicated to colleagues in 2nd line to ensure ongoing, consistent system improvement. Effectively identify and escalate suspected money laundering, confirmed PEPs or true sanction matches to Financial Crime Managers. Reviewing High Risk Jurisdiction referrals including transactional activity and source of wealth/source of funds analysis. Respond to legal orders and police liaison for all VMUK enquiries and court documents, ensuring compliance to court timeframes. This includes court attendance on behalf of VMUK Plc. We need you to have Experience of working within a financial crime environment Proven experience in reviewing detailed information and identifying key insights, with a strong track record of presenting findings or investigation outcomes clearly and concisely. Demonstrated ability to analyse complex data sets and draw well reasoned conclusions or actionable recommendations backed by evidence The ability to work autonomously with excellent time management skills Strong communication and proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various level across the organisation Working experience with Microsoft office tools, particularly excel It’s a bonus if you have…but not essential Experience of any AML Prevention, Detection or Investigation system Experience of any Sanction, PEP’s & Transaction Monitoring system Red Hot Rewards Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more. Up to five extra paid well-being days per year. 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. Market-leading pension. Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance. Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you. Say hello to Virgin Money We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard. As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. 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