Financial Crime Analyst - Central Edinburgh - 6 Month FTC - 30K
Posted 1 week ago by 1749038052
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Edinburgh
Summary: The Financial Crime Analyst role is a 6-month fixed-term contract based in central Edinburgh, requiring candidates to engage in financial crime investigations and alert management to potential risks. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement, with four days in the office and one day working from home. Candidates will receive dedicated training and support from senior personnel while working in a regulated environment. The role seeks individuals with backgrounds in financial crime, particularly in areas such as screening and sanctions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Tackling automated and raised alerts needing attention and investigation for new and existing clients
- Seeking out and raising red flags to management and external parties where appropriate to prevent financial crime occurrences
- Working on varying complexity caseloads with a team spanning the globe, and learning the ropes from them and key leaders
- Working in a regulated environment, honing your skills as you go and acting as a proactive asset within a supportive function with a great pipeline of work to tackle from the get-go
Key Skills:
- Background in a Financial Crime domain (ideally Screening but open to people crossing over from other FinCrime areas)
- Proven interpersonal skills, and ability to act as an ambassador for the company in client-facing scenarios
- Excited by chances to learn as you go in a company that will support you to do so
- Adapt to changes and help to identify possible areas for improvement across the team/processes/etc.
- Awareness of the kind of regulations one might find in the Financial Crime / Financial Services domains
Salary (Rate): £30,000 yearly
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Financial Crime Analyst - Central Edinburgh - 6 Month FTC - 30K
*** 4 Days per Week in Central Edinburgh office, 1 day WFH ***
Lorien's client - a central Edinburgh based and well-known organisation with a brand-new office currently expanding their Financial Crime function and seeing a growing pipeline of new business as we speak - is on the lookout for new talent in the shape of Financial Crime Analysts / FinCrime Specialists from a variety of backgrounds such as Screening, Sanctions, PEP and other risk indicators to bolster their squad for a 6-month Fixed Term contract.
You'll enjoy plenty of opportunities to upskill with dedicated training from day one, and benefit from the support and overview of senior personnel, great leaders in management, and a global reaching team.
You'll be:
- Tackling automated and raised alerts needing attention and investigation for new and existing clients
- Seeking out and raising red flags to management and external parties where appropriate to prevent financial crime occurrences
- Working on varying complexity caseloads with a team spanning the globe, and learning the ropes from them and key leaders
- Working in a regulated environment, honing your skills as you go and acting as a proactive asset within a supportive function with a great pipeline of work to tackle from the get-go
We've placed a number of great people into this firm already, and so if this might be of interest to you, these are the kind of skills/qualities that our client's looking for:
- Background in a Financial Crime domain (ideally Screening but open to people crossing over from other FinCrime areas)
- Proven interpersonal skills, and ability to act as an ambassador for the company in client-facing scenarios
- Excited by chances to learn as you go in a company that will support you to do so
- Adapt to changes and help to identify possible areas for improvement across the team/processes/etc.
- Awareness of the kind of regulations one might find in the Financial Crime / Financial Services domains
So if this might be a match, and you'd like to know more about these opportunities and what this great firm can offer you, apply now with your latest CV and let's have a chat.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.