Compliance Officer - Corporate Bank - 12 month FTC

Investigo are supporting one of our International Corporate Banking clients to recruit a Compliance Officer for a 12 month fixed term contract.

This is a generalist compliance role within a mid-sized compliance team reporting directly into the Head of Compliance/MLRO. The role covers duties across regulatory compliance and 2nd Line Financial Crime.

Overview of duties:

• Ongoing transaction monitoring on high risk clients
• Escalation of suspicious transactions
• Completion of periodic compliance reviews
• Performing Control Effective Testing (CET), identify and address and control gaps
• Support the team with any Compliance or AML advisory when necessary
• Help with any AML or Compliance policy or process improvements
• Perform ongoing compliance and AML monitoring, in order to improve governance and controls
• Submit regulatory reports to regulators across AML and compliance matters

Candidate Expectations:

• 2-3 years + experience working within a bank or financial services environment
• Ideally hold a professional compliance or AML qualification
• Have a good understanding of financial crime prevention frameworks - including AML and CTF, and Sanctions compliance

This is a brilliant role for a candidate to develop a broad generalist skill set within a smaller banking institution where you will have significant exposure across the team, learn loads and work with a fantastic Head of Compliance/MLRO and very supportive senior compliance officer.

The bank currently work 3 days per week in their Knightsbridge, London based office and 2 days per week from home.