AML & Prohibited Activities (Investigations) Analyst

About the team:

Ongoing Monitoring sits in our first line of defence (1LOD) operations’ department, responsible for monitoring the activity of our SME customers (‘members’) for the purpose of preventing, detecting and reporting sanctions, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, bribery and corruption, money mules and fraud. 

It's an opportunity to work with an amazing team across multiple geographies, including analysts, team leaders, product and engineering managers, data scientists and operations managers. The role has exposure to many senior stakeholders across the business and is at the heart of what we do to protect our customers.

What we’re looking for: 

Here at Tide, we are looking for someone who

• has a good understanding of Financial Crime Typologies including money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, and sanctions evasion, bribery, tax evasion, and suspicious activities reporting. 
• is passionate and proactive, who will help ensure Tide is taking all relevant steps to detect and prevent all aspects of financial crime. 
• understands financial crime in a global financial set up with specific focus towards UK and Europe Geography. 
• has exceptional communication skills in English (both Written and Speaking).
• can use expert judgement to recommend if a case warrants filing of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) 

This role is a key element of our ongoing monitoring team sitting within the first line of defence. You’ll be responsible for ensuring we put our genuine members first, through monitoring transaction types and behaviours across our customer base, whilst spotting and investigating potentially suspicious activity. 

As an  Alert Review analyst you’ll be performing tasks related to the following

Transaction Monitoring Alert Review & Analysis:

• Monitor and investigate alerts generated by automated transaction monitoring and sanctions screening systems.
• Conduct comprehensive, risk-based reviews of customer accounts and transaction histories to identify suspicious patterns or activities that deviate from a customer's normal behavior.
• Synthesize information from various sources, including customer profiles (KYC/CDD), public records, adverse media, and internal data.
• Assess the transactional activity in the context of financial crime typologies across a variety of payment types and financial products offered.
• Draft a concise, yet comprehensive report on findings prior to discounting the alert or reporting suspicious activity.
• Contact the member (customer) via email, chat or by phone to seek additional contextual information without tipping off.
• Contact representatives of partner banks via emails in cases where a fin crime investigation is required on Tide’s member

Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Recommendations:

• Draft and present detailed, well-reasoned SAR recommendations to experts responsible for filing SARs to regulatory authorities. 
• Construct a clear, concise, and defensible narrative outlining the suspicious activity, the investigative steps taken, and the rationale for the recommendation.
• Ensure all supporting documentation and evidence is accurately compiled and included in the case file for audit purposes.

Sanctions Screening:

• Analyze potential sanctions hits against international lists (e.g., OFAC, EU, UN, HMT) for cross border payment transactions.
• Apply a risk-based approach to differentiate between a true match and a false positive based on criteria like phonetic similarities, aliases, and supporting data.
• Escalate confirmed sanctions hits to management immediately for asset blocking or reporting.

Other tasks as part of the role

• Gain in-depth understanding of the technology and tools that aid in the alert review and analysis.
• Proactively calling out potential efficiencies in our tools and processes used for transaction analysis 
• Managing your own case load to meet performance targets (Productivity, Quality and Customer experience)
• Participate in internal and external training programs related to fraud offences detection and prevention and other subjects that may form part of the day-to-day work requirements.
• Treating Tide members fairly by taking responsibility to ensure that their needs are met
• Make recommendations for process improvements to prevent future occurrences of fraud
• Establishing good relationships with various departments throughout the organisation to ensure good operational synergy
• Participate in internal and external training programs related to fraud offences detection and prevention and other subjects that may form part of the day-to-day work requirements.
• Treating Tide members fairly by taking responsibility to ensure that their needs are met

What makes you a great fit: 

You are open to flexible shift timings and patterns, it will be five days working with two days off not necessarily weekends. 

• You have 2 to 4+ years of experience in a Transaction monitoring, Financial Crime risk related role in financial services
• You have a keen eye for process improvements, looking how we can work leaner and more robustly.
• You have an analytical mind and are able to digest large data sets and spot patterns and trends with ease 
• You have exceptional communication skills, written and verbal. Are able to communicate with our members (including via telephone) , internal stakeholders & regulatory bodies if required
• You have C1/C2 level of spoken and written English

What you get in return:

• Flexible working options
• Group Life Insurance
• 27 days holiday
• 3 days for L&D or volunteering time off per year
• We invest in your development with a professional L&D budget per year
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• Enhanced family-friendly leave
• Sabbatical leave