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Financial Crime Systems & Analytics Specialist

Job details
Posting date: 18 June 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 July 2024
Location: Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ
Company: NatWest Group
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: R-00233726-OTHLOC-GBR-5FEDI034

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Summary

Join us as a Financial Crime Systems & Analytics Specialist

  • This is an opportunity for a driven leader to take on an exciting new career challenge
  • You'll develop, implement and maintain ways of working that use our systems and data to prevent, detect and disrupt crime
  • It’s a chance to have a tangible effect on our function, put your existing skills to the test and advance your career
  • You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum 2 days per week working from the office

What you'll do

As a Financial Crime Systems & Analytics Specialist, you'll use systems and data to prevent criminals from harming our customers and exploiting the bank, making our defences hassle free and undetected. You'll make sure that we're compliant with our policies, regulations and with the law, and protect the bank and our customers, while being as efficient as we can.

You’ll also:

  • Formulate and deploy prevention and detection strategies in response to specific threats as they arise, such as new system enhancements and process changes
  • Maintain a detailed understanding of applicable downstream operational processes, assess the impact of planned system changes on operational processes, and proactively seek feedback from operations and use this to enhance systems
  • Support business as usual enhancements and major upgrades through business analysis, documenting requirements and undertaking user acceptance testing, working in an agile fashion and liaising with engineering teams as required
  • Liaise with system vendors and coordinate our work with them to drive enhancements and resolve address problems

The skills you'll need

You'll need an understanding of UK retail and small business banks, and UK financial crime legislation. You'll also need an understanding of the financial crime threats facing a retail bank.

You’ll also need:

  • A general understanding of the approach taken to financial crime by traditional banks, including knowledge of key policies, teams, processes, controls, systems and data
  • Very strong quantitative skills with knowledge and experience in relevant analytical approaches, with the ability to combine data analysis and subject matter knowledge to produce genuine insight
  • Very strong verbal and written communications skills, communicating in the most appropriate way for the audience and purpose at hand, and able to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely

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