Financial Crime Control & Escalation Team / Payment screening team - Santander - Milton Keynes
(2016-03 - 2026-03)
- Reviewing escalated alerted payments for potential Sanctions links for retail and corporate clients & approving or rejecting payment releases.
- Escalating potential sanctions risks or potential financial crime risks outside of the screening process to relevant senior colleagues / Policy team.
- Reviewing payments and making risk based decisions. Looking at a wide aspect of sanctions from Russian, Cuba, Sudan, Iran sanctions.
- Completing QC four eye checks making sure all payments are clear from sanctions
- Completing AML checks and raising suspicious activity reports where required.
- Research, analyse and investigate high risk customer EDD files
- Performing negative media scan using tools such as the internet search engines and lexisnexis.
- Make recommendations for closing customer accounts/relationships based on investigation mitigating risk.
- AML tools include Norkom/ Worldcheck and various case management tools
PEPs Screening Analyst – Level 3 / Team Leader - Financial Crime - RBS - London
(2014-03 - 2016-01)
- Lead and develop team of analysts conducting L3 PEP screening activity on behalf of CPB and Business Banking
- Engagement with AML Operations and Group Services to represent CPB interests in relation to PEP screening; review and consider end to end processes, provide input for CPB on incidents and identifying risk and managing activity to address those risks
- Maintenance of MI and SLAs, conduct regular AYIC testing for analyst team
- Continue oversight of PEP policy, maintenance of FAQs on PEP discounting alerts. Support review of PEP alerts if / when required
- Assisting in the production of management reports
- Reconciliation and MI reporting
- Experience of using systems and tools to support customer investigations
- Experience in using Core systems, GCS, TSYS, Fircosoft, KYC Tool, Back Office, etc
Sanctions Screening Analyst - BARCLAYCARD - Northampton
(2009-02 - 2014-02)
This role requires maintaining high standards of accuracy, analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Screening new and existing Barclaycard customers against data held on sanctioned/PEP individuals and companies.
- Reviewing and escalating cases for further investigation within strict SLA period.
- Investigating cases using World Check sanction/entity database, E-series and in-house databases to extract relevant information.
- Negotiating with specialist financial crimes team on case management.
- Communicating with customers to obtain further KYC information and discuss account status.
- Account management including closures.
- Advising and liaising with application advisors and global payment team regarding sanction screening status and customer data.
- Producing Suspicious Activity Reports on credit balanced and escalation to SOCA.
- Performing QA on reviewed cases.
- Training and mentoring junior analysts.
- Advising on and implementing procedural improvements to increase work efficiency.
- Maintain knowledge of current industry, EU money laundering and internal guidelines.
International High Net worth Sanctions Analyst (contract) - LLOYDS BANKING GROUP - Birmingham
(2011-01 - 2011-08)
Role based in a fast paced and changing environment requiring flexibility, ability to learn new processes quickly and excellent analytical skills.
- Responsible for screening payments across international countries to a high level of accuracy.
- Liaising with international colleagues to investigate and resolve payment issues.
- Appointed to advise, train and support Lloyds, Switzerland sanctions team on best working practices. Assisted in change management of procedures.
- Utilising Fircosoft, Swift and World Check databases.
- Achieved qualification in Advanced Sanctions Compliance.
- Demonstrated and honed skills in time management and task prioritisation in order to meet strict deadlines.
Merchant Recruitment Clerk - BARCLAYCARD - Northampton
(2007-06 - 2009-02)
- Assisting Account Managers to process applications.
- Liaising with senior staff to obtain key customer data.
- Screening KYC documents.
- Reviewing director credit files against merchant files.
- Honed analytical and research skills.
Fraud Application Analyst - BARCLAYCARD - Northampton
(2006-01 - 2007-06)
- Working as part of CIFAS team reviewing and processing credit card applications.
- Adhering to CIFAS rules, investigating
- Navigating and extracting date from Experian and Equifax Credit Files and systems such as 'Find'.
- Communicating directly with customers regarding application status.
