Financial Crime Coordinator

Newcastle Building Society; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Financial Crime Coordinator, a key role in preventing money laundering, fraud, and terrorist financing. This position offers competitive pay, excellent benefits, and hybrid working options, reflecting Newcastle Building Society's commitment to an inclusive workplace and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working options

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Annual bonus scheme

Colleague mortgage scheme

Pension scheme - up to 9% employer contribution

Life assurance and income protection

Wellbeing benefits including Medicash scheme

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Extra day off for your birthday

Qualifications

• Experience in financial crime in financial services preferred.
• Understanding of money laundering and fraud risks for savings and mortgage products.
• Ability to manage high-volume workloads.

Responsibilities

• Identify, investigate, and escalate suspicious activities.
• Perform customer due diligence and screening.
• Assist authorities with investigation inquiries.

Skills

Risk-based decision making

Investigation skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Experience in Financial Crime setting

Job description

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Financial Crime Coordinator

Apply locations Hybrid (Home/Cobalt Business Park) time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: July 6, 2025 (8 days left to apply) job requisition id JR406

Job Posting Title

Financial Crime Coordinator

Salary Band

£24,252 - £30,247
Grade: LC3

Job Description

About the Role
Sitting within Operations, the Financial Crime Team supports both the Newcastle Building Society and our NSSL partners in preventing and detecting our savings and mortgage products from being used for the purposes of Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing and Fraud.

The Financial Crime Unit provides support toNewcastle Strategic Solutions clients and Newcastle Building Societyto manage their regulatory obligations in relation to Financial Crime. This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual to join the Financial Crime Unit to assist in the prevention of Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Fraud.

As a Financial Crime Coordinator within the team, your role will be to perform risk based financial crime due diligence. This will include:

• Identifying, investigating and escalating suspicious and high-risk activity.
• Performing and assisting with customer due diligence.
• Screening customers against Sanction, Politically Exposed Persons and other High Risk lists.
• Assisting the authorities with investigation enquiries.
  

About You

Experience of working within a Financial Crime setting within Financial Services will be advantageous, along with an understanding of the Financial Crime threats both savings and mortgage products may encounter.

You’ll also have experience in dealing with internal and external stakeholders within a Financial Crime setting.

You should have the ability to make risk-based decisions and manage a high-volume workload (including alert processing).

About Us
Newcastle Strategic Solutions is part of the Newcastle Building Society Group and is dedicated to the provision of outsourcing for financial services.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:

• A 35-hour weekly contract + flexible working options
• 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Bonus Scheme (paid annually) -On target 5%, up to 10% depending on performance
• Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors
• Pension scheme – up to 9% employers’ contribution
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including medicash scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• The option to buy and sell holidays
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• A broad range of learning and development opportunities
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts
• Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide
• A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance
• Hybrid working - we welcome any discussions around where, how and when people work including part-time hours.
  

Recognising there’s noone-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process.

We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at [e-mail]

Company:

Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited