AML Officer Birmingham, England
Job description
We are looking to recruit three AML Officers to join our AML proactive supervision team. The first two vacancies are permanent roles and the third one a 14-month fixed term contract.
The team
At the SRA, keeping money launderers out of legal services has long been a priority. Anti-money laundering (AML) in the legal sector is seeing rapid change and our AML Proactive Supervision Team helps respond to these emerging trends through ongoing engagement with law firms to improve compliance and share knowledge. Proactive supervision with firms involves engagement, as well as desk based reviews and onsite inspections.
The role
As an AML Officer, you will play a key role in the delivery of our proactive supervisory work. You will support a range of activities that address the risk of financial crime and engage with regulated firms, individuals, and other stakeholders to tackle anti-money laundering and terrorist financing risk in the legal services market.
You will primarily carry out desk-based reviews to assess firms’ processes and procedures, compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing regulations, financial sanctions and our standards and regulations. Using your analytical skills, you will gather and analyse information to help increase our understanding of firms and their ability to manage money laundering risks.
You will bring to this role excellent analytical skills and be able to write clear and concise communications on complex matters. In this role, you will deliver excellent levels of service and establish credibility with firms, as well as with internal and other external stakeholders.
What is in it for you?
- Make an impact by applying your specialist anti-money laundering and/or financial sanctions knowledge across the legal services market.
- Build relationships and engage with a range of stakeholders, firms, and individuals.
- Showcase your ability to analyse complex and technical information to identify anti-money laundering and financial sanctions risks.
- Work in a friendly collaborative team and develop your specialist AML and financial sanctions knowledge.
What we are looking for
- Relevant regulatory, legal or AML experience.
- A knowledge and understanding of anti-money laundering requirements.
- An ability to analyse large amounts of complex quantitative and qualitative information.
- Resilience and experience of working in an environment where priorities may change at short notice.
- A credible and confident communicator (verbal and written) who can explain complex issues succinctly and with clarity.
- Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible, pragmatic approach to work.
Useful and additional information
There is a Role Profile attached at the bottom of the advert on our website.
This role will be based in our Birmingham office 1-2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week.
If you have any questions that are not answered in the advert, additional documents or our website, you can contact us via: [email protected]
To apply
Please click ‘apply’ to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile.
To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages.
Closing date for applications is 30 August at 09:00, however we may choose to close the application period earlier if sufficient number of applications are received. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible if the role is of interest.
Assessment and interviews will take place in our Birmingham office in the week of 11 September. If your application is successful, we will contact you to let you know what to expect.
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
