Hybrid Financial Crime Systems Specialist – Detect & Optimize

Newcastle Building Society; North Tyneside; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Annual performance reviews

Colleague mortgage scheme

Electric car salary sacrifice

Life assurance (4x salary)

Income protection

Access to financial advisers

Discounts

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Employee assistance programme

Onsite gym

Volunteering days

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Newcastle Building Society is seeking a Financial Crime Systems Specialist in the North East to protect customers by managing and enhancing our core financial crime technology systems and controls. This hands-on role owns day-to-day administration, config and performance tuning, builds detection rules and analyses alerts to balance effective risk management with a positive customer experience.

You will work with colleagues across Financial Crime, Operations, Risk, Technology and Change to

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime/Fraud/AML or Compliance with data-driven risk management.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into actionable controls.
• Experience configuring and tuning detection rules and system parameters.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration, configuration and performance of financial crime systems.
• Develop and refine detection rules to reduce false positives.
• Analyze alert volumes and system performance; collaborate with stakeholders across Financial Crime, Operations, Risk, Technology and Change.
• Support regulatory and internal audits with evidence of control effectiveness.

Skills

Transaction monitoring

Fraud prevention

Sanctions screening

Payment verification

Tools

LexisNexis

SIRA

JADE

Job description

Newcastle Building Society is seeking a Financial Crime Systems Specialist in the North East to protect customers by managing and enhancing our core financial crime technology systems and controls. This hands-on role owns day-to-day administration, config and performance tuning, builds detection rules and analyses alerts to balance effective risk management with a positive customer experience.

You will work with colleagues across Financial Crime, Operations, Risk, Technology and Change to