Santander Bank

Associate - Financial Crime Assurance | S2 | SCIB

Country: United Kingdom

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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customised services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.

The Financial Crime Compliance Assurance function plays a critical role in supporting the Financial Crime Programme by independently testing policies, procedures, and controls, and evaluating their compliance and alignment with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

In this interesting role within the Global Compliance Monitoring, Testing and Assurance (MTA) team, you’ll be part of our global function and will work collaboratively with colleagues in other jurisdictions. You’ll be conducting Financial Crime Compliance reviews within Santander Corporate and Investment Banking and will support MTA management with ad hoc projects and tasks. Your work will have direct influence and impact across Santander Corporate and Investment Banking to ensure an effective and proactive risk management.

If you’ve performed a similar role previously, this could be the perfect opportunity to develop your career.

The difference you’ll make:

• Conducting testing to assess the design and operational effectiveness of Financial Crime controls
• Performing issue validation to confirm that recommendations have been implemented as prescribed and that remedial actions are sustainable
• Assisting in collection and preparation of meaningful management information (MI) for MTA management, relevant stakeholders and committees/fora
• Collaborating with other Compliance and Financial Crime teams on training programmes, risk assessments, and Group-wide initiatives as required

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• In-depth knowledge of Financial Crime Risks, including AML, Sanctions, Fraud, and Anti-Bribery & Corruption
• Proven experience in an Internal Audit, Assurance, or Controls Testing team, with an understanding of risk-based methodologies
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent analytical skills with accuracy and attention to detail

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Industry recognised qualification in Financial Crime such as ACAMS, ICA or equivalent
• Knowledge and experience of Corporate and Investment Banking products, services, and operational processes
• Familiarity with Data Analytics and data interrogation techniques, with the ability to extract insights and identify trends from complex datasets

What else you need to know:

This role is based at our offices in Triton Square, London located within easy walking distance from Warren Street and Euston.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 3 days a week (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.