Financial Crime Consultant - Talent Pool

Treliant; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Belfast seeks an experienced Financial Crime Analyst specializing in Transaction Monitoring, KYC, and AML to support regulatory compliance efforts. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in MS Office. This role offers a hybrid work model with competitive benefits including medical aid and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Work From Home

Medical Aid / Health Care

Performance Bonus

Hybrid

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime areas such as Transaction Monitoring and KYC.
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks.
• Capable of analytical thinking and decision-making in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage account screening and transaction alerts.
• Conduct reviews of transactional histories for flagged accounts.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Skills

Financial Crime

Transaction Monitoring

KYC

Sanctions

Consulting

EDD

Education

Degree in Finance or Economics

Tools

MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Job description

Overview

Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges.

We provide data-driven, technology-enabled advisory and consulting, implementation, staffing and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients.

Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, and Lódz, Poland. For more information visit .

Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs ("the principles"). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential.

We are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and want to build a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are interested in working for Treliant but don’t tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United Kingdom without requiring sponsorship.

Please note, Treliant receives a high volume of applications for all roles. While we will endeavour to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made.

Responsibilities

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include:

Transaction Monitoring

• Managing multiple queues of account screening and real-time transaction screening alert
• Conducting thorough reviews of transactional histories for flagged accounts, taking appropriate actions, and refining rules as necessary
• Serving as an escalation point for complex transaction alerts
• Defining and implementing new transaction monitoring alerts for enhanced detection
• Filling Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
• Identifying opportunities to streamline or improve current processes

AML / KYC

• Review a backlog of institutional client transactional activity reports to assess for deviations from expected behaviours
• Disposition alerts generated from the migration of systems
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies
• Support the client’s BSA/AML and sanctions compliance efforts by assessing and addressing potential risks in transactional data

Sanctions

• Managing multiple queues of account screening and real-time transaction screening alerts; exercise judgment and sanctions knowledge by reviewing internal data against reference data and recommending a disposition
• Conducting open-source research and client outreach for alerts requiring additional information
• Advising management by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends
• Maintaining accurate tracking of assignments to ensure appropriate deadlines are met
• Performing supplementary sanctions due diligence and research for complex escalations

CDD / EDD

• Analyse customers\' transactional activities to identify possible suspicious activities
• Investigate possible money laundering, terrorist financing transactional and fraud activities
• Determine if customer EDD alert review documentation is complete to support a recommendation to an adjustment for the level of risk for the clients high risk customer rating
• Review and evaluate risk-based CDD on actual and potential clients in accordance with policy, procedure and local laws and regulations
• Detect and mitigate red flags for potential financial crime
• Assess if the customers level of risk rating is accurate as is, or needs to be adjusted up or, down based on documentation provided in the Alert review
• Provide recommendation of risk adjustment and as necessary make the needed adjustments to the customers risk in the client’s system

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Strong educational background - Degree in a Finance, Economics, or similar a plus
• 3+ years\' experience of one or more of the above areas in Financial Crime; Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, KYC, Anti-Money Laundering, EDD/CDD
• Experience of working on financial crime projects, either directly with a bank/financial institution or via a third party providing consulting services
• Strong understanding of the compliance and regulatory frameworks that apply to financial institutions regarding AML
• Ability to understand Financial Crime guides / industry standards
• Confident communicating with management/stakeholders, producing reports and helping manage project lifecycles with relevant industry tooling
• Ability to identify and flag anomalies for review
• Strong decision-making skills in a fast-paced and pressurised environment
• Very strong attention to detail and capable of analytical thinking
• Strong MS Office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

We are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and want to build a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are interested in working for Treliant but don’t tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.

Skills

• Financial Crime
• Transaction Monitoring
• KYC
• Sanctions
• Financial Services
• Consulting
• EDD

Benefits

• Work From Home
• Work From Home
• Medical Aid / Health Care
• Performance Bonus
• Hybrid