Financial Crime
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2020 LLB Law Degree Business Officer in the Project Management Society – Lancaster University
- A Levels achieved in Law, Psychology and Sociology / AS Level History – St John Rigby College
- 2015 GCSEs achieved in Maths and English at grade A* – St Edmund Arrowsmith
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
- Various in-house systems
Career Summary
Current Employer – Professional Services Firm (T/O $38.4Billion)
Position – Financial Services Analyst
Dates – April 2024 – Present
- Reported to Various Team Leaders for Different Projects
- Full time Role in the Financial Services Academy, Working Towards and Achieving Chartered Insurance Institutes Level 3 Certificate in Financial Services and Level 3 Certificate in Mortgage Advice
- Alongside my studies- Worked on Numerous Projects in Managed Services – As Well As with Other Teams Such as Risk and Regulation and Forensics
- The Role Involves Exposure to Different Projects in Managed Services – Such As Financial Crime Investigations/ Customer Due Diligence Reviews/ KYC Reviews/ Complaints/ Remediation/ Customer reviews/ Regulation/ AML and EDD Investigations
Previous Employer – Financial Advisors (T/O £107.09Million)
Position – Regulatory Policy Adviser
Dates – October 2022 – February 2023
- Worked Within the Legal and Regulatory Department to Establish and Maintain the Regulatory Standards and Policies to Ensure Compliance with the FCAs Rules and Guidance
- Responsible For Reviewing and Rewriting of Internal Policies – Ensuring They Were Up to Date with Any New Regulatory Developments
- Managed a Live Internal Regulatory Helpdesk – Ensuring All Queries Were Answered and Resolved
- Advised on Required Documentation for Senior Cases
- Adhoc Administrative Tasks
Previous Employer – Online Banking Services (T/O £1.2Billion)
Position – Financial Crime Investigator
Dates – August 2021 – August 2022
- Worked within a team of 10 reporting to a Team Leader responsible for conducting reviews on fraudulent cases for a bank operating in the UK and USA
- Conducted reviews into accounts flagged via the internal transaction monitoring system, investigating to see if there is activity on an account that warrants submitting a SAR, or puts the customer outside of our risk appetite
- Conducted fraud report investigations, and managed communications with external banks- looking into claims made by our customers against external accounts and investigating reports from other banks about our customers possibly fraudulent activity
- Exposure to logging accounts to CIFAS
- Received additional training on sanctions and PEP/ adverse media screening- looking at OSINT and KYC information to see if I can discount customers as being the flagged entity
- Joined the business banking team – reviewed new applications, seeing if information could be verified and determining whether a relationship would be a risk or not
- The role required working knowledge of all recent or relevant legislation and policies relating to financial crime, as well as an ability to keep up with ever changing internal policy
- Worked daily to KPI’s and set company targets
Previous Employer – Gambling Operator
Position – Junior KYC Analyst
Dates – November 2020 – July 2021
- Role primarily involved analysing and processing customer documentation
- Worked as part of a specialised team that handled payments, document verification and AML/fraud investigations
- Managed customer enquiries about payments, required documentation and general requests or questions about their accounts
- The role required attention to detail, customer service etiquette and a working knowledge of current AML legislation and UKGC guidelines
Previous Employer – Warehouse
Position – Warehouse Operative
Dates – June – September 2018 / 2020
