Ebury is a hyper-growth FinTech firm, named in 2021 as one of the top FinTechs to work for by Glassdoor and AltFi. We offer a range of products including FX risk management, trade finance, currency accounts, international payments and API integration.
**Screening & Transaction Monitoring Analyst - Financial Crime Operations**
**4 days per week in the office, 1 working from home**
**Based in either our High Wycombe, London or Leon (Spain) offices**
Ebury Mass Payments (EMP) is the premier non-bank provider of high volume currency and payment solutions. The division operates in 5 of the 24 Ebury offices and has made a recent acquisition which will dramatically accelerate growth.
**Responsibilities**:
- Safeguarding Ebury and our existing Clients from financial crime risk - including money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption, fraud, sanctions risk, tax evasion and reputational risk
- Reviewing and/or investigating matches against sanctions, PEPs, adverse media and internal lists in a timely fashion and processing in compliance with relevant legislative, regulatory and internal requirements
- Conducting real-time and retrospective rules-based monitoring on client transactions and processing alerts in compliance with Ebury's processes and procedures and making risk-based decisions when assessing the risk of the transactions performed by clients
- Identification of red flags and exposure to financial crime risk, including escalation to Compliance where required
- Responding to Requests For Information on transactions from banking partners
- Responding to queries from other internal departments
- Complete and manage all allocated tasks with focus, and in a timely manner
- Proactive follow-up of requests for information to ensure timely completion of customer due diligence
- Communicate the status of tasks to colleagues, supervisors and managers, and escalate issues swiftly, where required.
- Adhere to all internal policies, processes and procedures
- Ensure prompt resolution of customers related issues (transactions, payments, RFIs and any other relevant issues as required).
- Support ad-hoc projects within the department and wider business as required
**Requirements**:
- 6 months to 1 year of transferable or relevant experience in AML
- Knowledge of red flags and financial crime typologies relevant to the FX and payment space is preferential
- Diligent, with good attention to detail and analytic mind
- Proactive, with the ability to work within strict time-frames and under pressure
- Working successfully in a target driven operational environment
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Effective research and critical thinking skills with an ability to find solutions independently
- Highly organised, with the ability to work to deadlines, multi-task, and prioritise and re-prioritise workload as needed
- Co-operative, and comfortable working in a team environment
- Adaptable, with the ability to cope with changing products, processes and procedures
- Curious and eager to learn, and actively asks questions to confirm understanding of processes and procedures
- Fluency in English, any other language is considered highly desirable
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**About Us**
**Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.**
Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1300 staff with a presence in more than 20 countries worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Bucharest to Toronto, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.
Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.
None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusiastic, innovative and collaborative teams, always ready to disrupt and revolutionise the fast-paced FinTech sector.
- We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story because we want you and your uniqueness to help write our future._