Compliance Analyst

fs talent; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

fs talent is supporting an FCA-regulated specialist finance business to hire a Compliance Analyst. This broad role covers Monitoring, Financial Crime, regulatory change, policies, reporting and advisory work.

You will support ongoing monitoring, review customer activity, investigate alerts, assist with SARs, sanctions, CDD/EDD, and regulatory reporting while collaborating with senior compliance colleagues to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience in Compliance, Financial Crime, AML or Risk roles.
• Exposure to monitoring and regulatory reporting is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support ongoing Compliance and Financial Crime monitoring.
• Review customer activity and investigate potential issues.
• Prepare and escalate Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
• Assist sanctions, PEP, adverse media, CDD and EDD activities.
• Maintain Compliance registers, logs and management information.
• Support regulatory reporting and FCA requests.
• Assist with regulatory change and updates to policies.
• Provide day-to-day Compliance support to the business.
• Collaborate with senior team on regulatory projects.

Skills

Compliance

Financial Crime

AML

Regulatory knowledge

Risk assessment

Job description

We’re working with an established FCA-regulated specialist finance business looking to add a Compliance Analyst to its growing Compliance function.

This is a broad Compliance role rather than a narrow monitoring position, offering exposure across Compliance Monitoring, Financial Crime, regulatory change, policies, reporting and wider advisory work.

A key part of the position will be supporting the firm’s ongoing monitoring activity, including reviewing customer activity, investigating potential concerns and supporting the internal SAR process.

The role will include:

• Supporting ongoing Compliance and Financial Crime monitoring.
• Reviewing customer activity and investigating potential issues or alerts.
• Preparing and escalating internal Suspicious Activity Reports where appropriate.
• Supporting sanctions, PEP, adverse media, CDD and EDD activity.
• Assisting with Compliance Monitoring reviews and control testing.
• Maintaining Compliance registers, logs and management information.
• Supporting regulatory reporting and FCA-related requests.
• Assisting with regulatory change and updates to policies and procedures.
• Providing day-to-day Compliance support to the wider business.
• Working closely with senior members of the Compliance team on ad hoc regulatory projects.

Someone with experience in Compliance, Financial Crime, AML, Risk or a related financial services role who is looking to develop broader Compliance experience.

You’ll ideally have exposure to some of the following:

• FCA-regulated financial services.
• Compliance or Financial Crime monitoring.
• AML and suspicious activity investigations.
• CDD / EDD.
• FCA regulation and the FCA Handbook.
• Compliance reporting or regulatory change.

Experience within lending, mortgages, specialist finance or brokerage would be particularly relevant, although it isn’t essential.

This would suit someone who is analytical, inquisitive and keen to build a career within a broad Compliance function rather than becoming overly specialised too early.