Financial Crime Specialist (3 month FTC)
- Full-time
- Job Family Group: Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
Responsible for new business onboarding applications for Financial Institutions, Payment Institutions and Corporates in a myriad of industries and jurisdictions.
● Carrying out know-your-customer (KYC) and Know-your-business (KYB) checks.
● Reviewing client’s regulatory cover
● Performing Risk Assessment on new clients
● Assessing the effectiveness of each client’s AML framework
● Leading AML calls with clients including visual walkthroughs of their processes and systems.
● Responsible for undertaking enhanced due diligence on customers that pose greater risks, including investigating the legitimacy of the funds used in the business relationship.
● Undertaking onboarding calls to identify potential gaps within the client’s AML procedures
● Proactively escalating cases to senior members to the team
● Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date).
● Work cross-departmentally to proactively identify and resolve any queries.
This is a UK remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.
Qualifications
- Has an understanding of key AML and risk frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Fast thinker and quick learner with the ability to work effectively under pressure, in a rapidly changing environment.
- Excellent team working skills, capable of managing own workload and has tenacious attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritise work by taking the impact and scale of the work into
- consideration, as well as manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
- Able to analyse information to formulate questions and recommendations.
Additional Information
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.