Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
We have an opportunity to join our team as Regulatory Advisor, specialising in Financial Crime Prevention.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for providing complex AML, Sanctions and FCP advice and guidance to the business to ensure that it’s able to meet its regulatory and legal obligations. You’ll manage direct liaison and guidance with stakeholders across the business, where you’ll provide advice, reports and regulatory guidance to those individuals in a proactive manner when needed. You may also be required to be responsible for a Business Partner role in a less complex area of the business and/or assist with a complex Business Partner area.
1. Working autonomously to undertake mid-complexity matters on a daily basis with limited supervision.
2. Dealing with complex queries with guidance and supervision
3. Escalating any complex queries to your manager, but with your opinion and proposed solution, where you’ll then be able to complete these matters.
4. Meet your own personal KPIs and also works as part of a team to ensure GCT meets its KPI.
5. Work closely and collaboratively with our Client Onboarding Team to support the delivery of a compliant, effective and efficient onboarding process
6. Assist the Manager/s with project work to improve processes within the team and business wide.
7. Be a key point of contact and escalation for your area of expertise.
8. Drafting papers and reports where necessary for the Manager and wider business.
9. Maintain good commercial awareness when providing advice to the business
10. Be able to understand and apply the business risk appetite to complex matters
About You
11. A background working in a Compliance or in-house legal function, ideally from a Law firm.
12. Hold extensive practical and technical knowledge and understanding of AML, Sanctions and Financial Crime Prevention policies.
13. Hold extensive knowledge of CDD requirements
14. Previous experience working to multiple and challenging deadlines on various tasks and projects.
15. Have the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders in challenging conversations
16. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to negotiate when necessary.
17. Have the confidence to be able to present and report to senior managers, both written and verbal.
18. We would like for you to have a Lawyer / legal qualification, although this is not essential.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
19. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
20. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
21. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
22. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.