Financial Crime Compliance Analyst

Financial Crime Compliance Analyst - Compliance

Ebury Brussels Office - Hybrid: 4 days a week office based working, 1 day working from home

Headquartered in London, the firm is a Global FinTech provider that aims to apply new technologies to enhance and automate financial services and processes. This allows small and medium-sized businesses to trade and transact internationally by eliminating boundaries related to more traditional procedures.

As an FCC Analyst, you will work in the Financial Crime Compliance department in the firm’s Brussels office.

Role requirements: 

• Minimum 2-3 years experience either working in compliance or a financial crime-related operational role
• Must have fundamental knowledge of international sanction regulations (UN, EU, UK and US)
• Must be a team player but can adapt to work independently when required
• Can demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholder expectations effectively 
• Ability to adapt to a fast-changing global business environment  
• Must be able to work well under pressure and be proactive in completing cases under time-sensitive conditions
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills allow the candidate to identify financial crime risks and address them accordingly
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• High competency in Microsoft Office suite and Google Docs software (desired)
• Candidate should be fluent in English 
• Fluency in either French or Dutch is essential - any other European languages wiyld be an advantage

Key Responsibilities: 

• Ensure that financial crime risks are identified, assessed, managed and reported promptly for EDD, Transactions, Sanction, Adverse Media Screening, PEP, and Military Exposure and Proliferation escalations;
• Make decisions/recommendations on appropriate actions about financial crime issues raised by the onboarding analyst and front office representatives;
• Be a key point of contact within the business for financial crime-related queries on an ad-hoc basis, this includes attending calls where the business may wish to discuss complex or higher-risk cases;
• Respond to financial crime-related escalations in line with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA);
• Responsible for efficiently managing cases in workflow and being proactive in helping with   ad-hoc tasks;
• Conducting end-to-end financial crime risk assessments on new and existing clients;
• Reviewing financial crime red flags raised by the first line of defence;
• Making decisions/recommendations on appropriate actions concerning financial crime issues raised within the escalation framework;
• Present FC risk assessments and recommendations to senior stakeholders;
• Articulating policy and regulatory requirements that the firm complies with to the front office and operational KYC teams.

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