Based in City of London, Guardian Professional Corporate Services is a rapidly growing, progressive business that offers its employees career development in a fast-paced, collegial working environment. We offer Recruitment services designed to meet our clients’ individual business needs - from planning stages and all the way through to onboarding and induction. Whilst striving to deliver excellence in our working practice, we support clients in the end-to-end recruitment process.
We’re looking for a "Compliance Analyst" to join one of the leading FinTech companies located in London.
Key Responsibilities:
* Assist with any due diligence tasks required
* Assist with transaction monitoring, review, screening, sales queries and escalations
* Provide risk based and proportionate financial crime advice across the firm’s retail business units on all aspects of financial crime compliance, including anti-money laundering, anti-bribery, anti-facilitation of tax evasion, politically exposed persons, sanctions and adverse media and conduct areas
* Assist the MLRO and DMLRO with oversight of the firm’s financial crime and compliance program.
* Hold regular oversight meetings with the firm’s businesses to discuss issues and challenges and help the business to find proportionate and risk-based solutions.
* Help to develop financial crime and compliance policies, standards and procedures, and keep these up to date.
* Stay up to date with regulatory developments and industry trends, especially technologically driven financial crime and conduct solutions.
* Assist with the deployment of the Compliance Monitoring programme.
* Conduct risk assessments of prospective and existing customers to evaluate the financial crime and reputational risk, and produce written reports.
* Assist with the development and delivery of computer-based training modules.
* Create and deliver tailored face-to-face training to on a targeted, risk-driven basis across subjects such as anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, watchlist match resolution, suspicious activity reporting and adverse media and conduct.
* Support the DMLRO with the annual financial crime and business wide risk assessments.
* Assist the MLRO and DMLRO with other financial crime or conduct-related tasks and projects as needed.
Qualifications:
* Minimum 2 years of experience in a compliance-related role.
* Previous experience in the FinTech industry is essential
* Experience working in a Payment Service Provider (PSP) or with e-money institutions is highly desirable.
* Preferably holder of a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons) or equivalent legal education.
* Strong knowledge of anti-money laundering (AML) regulations and financial crime compliance requirements.
* Experience with risk rating protocols and understanding of financial crime risks.
* Hands-on, self-motivated and naturally organised individual.
* Strong time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines.
* Proactive, task-driven and positive attitude.
* Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills in English
* Detail-oriented and able to multi-task.
* Fully fluent with the use of Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint Office 365 etc.