Payments and Screening Analyst (VN2972)
Role Overview
The Payments and Screening Team is part of the First Line of Defence and supports compliance with financial crime and international sanctions requirements.
The Analyst reviews payment and ongoing screening alerts involving clients, counterparties, and transactions.
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About Marex
Marex Group plc is a global financial services platform providing liquidity, market access, and infrastructure services across energy, commodities, and financial markets.
The group provides clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions through more than 40 offices worldwide.
Role overview
The Payments and Screening Team is part of the First Line of Defence and supports compliance with financial crime and international sanctions requirements.
The Analyst reviews payment and ongoing screening alerts involving clients, counterparties, and transactions.
Responsibilities
- Review real-time, pre-screening, and other payment screening alerts for inbound and outbound payments.
- Conduct adverse media, PEP, sanctions, and watchlist screening using approved systems and research tools.
- Assess potential matches and determine whether alerts are false positives, possible matches, true matches, or require further investigation.
- Analyse payment, client, counterparty, ownership, geographic, transaction, and supporting documentation data.
- Prepare evidence-based rationales and maintain complete audit trails for review decisions.
- Request additional information and escalate sanctions matches, financial crime concerns, control issues, and risk events.
- Support payment hold or release decisions within applicable service-level and control requirements.
- Support quality assurance, control testing, remediation, system implementation, calibration, and continuous improvement.
- Maintain accurate screening data and respond to internal and external screening queries.
- Maintain knowledge of sanctions, AML, CTF, and wider financial crime requirements.
Coverage requirements
- Shift or regional coverage may be required from time to time to support the global business.
Qualifications and working standards
- The role requires sound judgement, strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and evidence-based decision making.
- The Analyst must comply with regulatory requirements, the operational risk framework, internal policies, applicable FCA conduct requirements, and the company Code of Conduct.
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