Financial Crime Officer
JOB DESCRIPTION
Location: Bristol (Hybrid)
In this position, you'll be based in the Bristol office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.
We give you a world of potential
Computershare has an exciting opportunity for a Financial Crime Officer to join our Global Information Security group (GIS), as part of our Global Financial crime unit (FCU).
The FCU provides advice, guidance, and support to Computershare's businesses in respect of preventing and identifying internal and external fraudulent activity.
The FCU conduct investigations into potentially fraudulent activity and undertakes detective controls. In addition, the team provides the business with assurance over its fraud control environment, by conducting reviews and monitoring for indicators of fraudulent activity, supporting the business to achieve its strategic goals.
A role you will love
As one of our Financial Crime Officers (EMEA), you will be a key member of our Global Financial Crime Unit. You will be responsible for the prevention, detection, response, reporting and escalation of all internal and external Fraud across all business units within Computershare's operations in the EMEA region of responsibility.
You will also be responsible for reviewing daily generated financial crime monitoring reports and manual referrals and completing them accurately in a timely manner. In addition you'll review and analyse customer information within our systems and work alongside the business to clarify the monitoring alert. You'll also update and maintain lifecycle and status of each case management system alert.
As part of our Global Financial Crime Unit, you will ensure we are delivering a consistent, best-in-class service to our global customer base within EMEA.
Other key responsibilities include:
- Focusing on identifying where controls failed or were not strong enough/in place to prevent fraudulent activity.
- Ensuring oversight of all findings and remedial actions via the GRC system, and track those through to completion.
- Proposing short, medium and long-term remediation recommendations agreed with the business by providing SME recommendations to the business and working collaboratively with them to determine the best outcomes.
- Critically reviewing monitoring alerts to protect Computershare customers and clients.
- Continuous monitoring of industry reports, news, and publications on fraud trends.
- Staying informed about changes in regulations and compliance requirements that may impact fraud risk.
What will you bring to the role?
This role requires great organisation skills and an excellent eye for detail, to ensure a high level of accuracy in written documentation.
Experience with fraud/financial crime investigations and/or assurance in either a first or second line role. Ideally within either financial services, legal/law enforcement or risk and/or compliance environment.
The ability to be flexible is essential, particularly as this is a global role and the role holder will be expected to work with the other FCU Team members in various locations. The FCU team members are geographically spread and some meetings are scheduled outside of usual working hours in order to facilitate collaboration.
Other skills & experience include:
- Experience working with the Microsoft Office suite of products including PowerPoint, OneNote, Power BI, and SharePoint.
- Knowledge of technological solutions (e.g. Governance, risk and control systems, fraud prevention systems).
- An understanding of risk and governance operations in financial services firms.
- Up to date knowledge of current trends in fraud prevention and identification, e.g. insights and legislation.
- Proven negotiation and influencing skills to ensure that the business understand and respond to assurance activity.
- Excellent written skills and strong verbal skills.
- Experience working in an investment environment would be beneficial but not required.
If you have the experience we are looking for and the flexibility to collaborate across our Global network we want to hear from you!
Rewards designed for you
Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.
Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.
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ABOUT US
A company to be proud of
We're a global leader in financial administration with over 11,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.
Fairness and culture
We're dedicated to providing you with the opportunity to succeed on your own merits, starting from the application process and continuing throughout your career with us. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued, to remove barriers and obstacles and ensure equal opportunities for all. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Shared Services teams support all of our business lines behind the scenes. Across the world, we have a range of specialisms that ensure the delivery of our business priorities. These include Technology, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Audit, Governance, Marketing and Communications as well as our People team. Join our strategic team and help us look after everything from creating an amazing end to end employee journey to keeping our systems safe. You'll be looking after our people, our clients and their customers, whilst maintaining our exceptional standards around the globe.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion