Financial Crime Quality Assurance Analyst

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Review financial crime cases across transaction monitoring, CDD/KYC, enhanced due diligence, PEP assessments, customer and payment screening, sanctions and related investigations.
• Assess cases against applicable policies, standards, procedures and QA methodologies.
• Identify financial crime risks, red flags, control gaps and deficiencies in investigation quality, documentation, evidence or rationale.
• Record proportionate findings, assess severity and escalate complex or material issues.
• Support remediation and provide feedback, coaching and challenge to operational and quality control teams.
• Take part in calibration, root-cause analysis, trend identification and thematic reviews.
• Maintain QA records and contribute to management information, reporting, governance updates and improvement initiatives.
• Work with Operations, Compliance, Quality Control, Policy and subject matter experts; contribute to procedure reviews and training.

Essential experience and skills

• Experience in Financial Crime, AML or Financial Crime Operations, with experience in one or more relevant financial crime processes or investigation areas.
• Experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Audit, Testing, Oversight or another risk-based review activity.
• Strong understanding of AML, terrorist financing, sanctions and financial crime risk management principles.
• Ability to apply policies and procedures to customer, transaction or investigation scenarios.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills, attention to detail, judgement and decision-making.
• Ability to document evidence-based findings and communicate constructively, challenge stakeholders and manage competing priorities.

Advantageous experience

• Experience in retail, business, corporate, investment or wholesale banking is advantageous.
• Experience with complex entities, beneficial ownership, source of wealth or source of funds reviews is advantageous.
• Knowledge of financial crime typologies, complex corporate structures, high-risk jurisdictions, trade-based money laundering, screening, PEPs, adverse media or sanctions is advantageous.