Financial Crime Consultant

Skipton Building Society Group; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Matching employer pension contribution

Colleague mortgages and access to Skip

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Health and wellbeing app

Volunteering opportunities

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Home and Tech voucher

Job summary

Skipton Building Society Group is seeking a curious and meticulous Financial Crime Consultant to join our Financial Crime Operations team in the UK. The role centers on reviewing alerts, investigating unusual account activity and determining risk as genuine or false positives.

You will join a supportive team with opportunities to grow your financial crime knowledge, on a 35-hour week, with a secondment until June 2027, and hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Previous exposure to transaction monitoring, including reviewing alerts or investigating unusual customer activity.
• An understanding of financial crime risks, including fraud prevention and anti-money laundering
• Confidence making balanced decisions based on the information available.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce clear, concise and accurate records.
• The ability to gather, assess and explain information clearly to different stakeholders.
• A calm and organised approach when working under pressure or managing changing priorities.
• An interest in keeping up to date with changes in financial crime regulation, risks and trends.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing transaction monitoring alerts and account activity to identify potential financial crime.
• Searching through high volumes of records and separating genuine concerns from false positives.
• Investigating suspicious activity, gathering information from different sources and recording clear, accurate findings.
• Assessing the level of risk and taking the appropriate action when concerns are identified.
• Providing clear financial crime guidance to colleagues across the business.

Skills

Transaction monitoring

Financial crime awareness

Decision making under pressure

Attention to detail

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

Hours:35 hours per week Monday to Friday, on secondment until June 2027

Salary: £29,100 Per Annum

Closing Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026

We’re looking for a curious and meticulous Financial Crime Consultant to join our Financial Crime Operations team. Transaction monitoring will be the main focus of the role. You’ll review alerts, investigate unusual account activity and decide whether the risk is genuine or a false positive.

This is a critical role where your judgement and attention to detail will help protect our members, colleagues and the Society. You’ll join a supportive team, with opportunities to grow your financial crime knowledge and stretch your skills.

At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members - and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.

What You’ll Do

We’re here to make our members’ money work harder. But it takes more than one kind of role to make that happen. Across our Money team, you’ll find people supporting savings, investments and financial advice, alongside the teams behind the scenes who keep things moving, spot what could work better, and help turn good ideas into practical change.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing transaction monitoring alerts and account activity to identify potential financial crime.
• Searching through high volumes of records and separating genuine concerns from false positives.
• Investigating suspicious activity, gathering information from different sources and recording clear, accurate findings.
• Assessing the level of risk and taking the appropriate action when concerns are identified.
• Providing clear financial crime guidance to colleagues across the business.

What You’ll Need

• Previous exposure to transaction monitoring, including reviewing alerts or investigating unusual customer activity.
• An understanding of financial crime risks, including fraud prevention and anti-money laundering
• Confidence making balanced decisions based on the information available.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce clear, concise and accurate records.
• The ability to gather, assess and explain information clearly to different stakeholders.
• A calm and organised approach when working under pressure or managing changing priorities.
• An interest in keeping up to date with changes in financial crime regulation, risks and trends.

What’s In It For You

Your work matters.

And the way we reward you matters, too.

At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at Currys, and IKEA

About Skipton

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.

We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them. You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too

It all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

What it's like to work here

Life at Skipton

We talk and we listen to each other. And we make decisions as a team. That way, you get all the support you need to do work that works for everyone.

At Skipton we value work life balance and are proud to support hybrid and flexible working. This opportunity is for 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday on a fixed term contract until June 2027, and you’ll spend a minimum of 3 days a week collaborating with colleagues at our Head Office in Skipton.

We also value what everyone brings to Skipton. And we create a fair place where you can be yourself. Our colleague networks play a big role in this. They connect people with similar life experiences and make our workplace warm, friendly, inclusive and welcoming.

It’s not just our members who are important to us.

You are, too.

Lots of organisations talk about wellbeing, but they don’t always back it up. As a mutual, we put people first. And that includes the people who work here. So, when we say we care about your wellbeing, we mean it.

Wellbeing isn't just one thing. It’s about feeling good, having energy, and being able to be yourself and perform at your best. That’s why we offer help for your mental and physical health across five key areas.

What’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.

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