Financial Crime Due Diligence Analyst

Job Description

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Financial Crime Due Diligence Analyst

At Centrica, our purpose is to energise a greener, fairer future. Achieving this is made possible through our family of trusted brands and businesses.

We have an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of our growing Group Financial Crime team in Windsor as a Financial Crime Due Diligence Analyst! As Financial Crime Due Diligence Analyst, you will be required to conduct ‘know your customer’ (KYC) checks on new and existing third parties, carry out periodic reviews consistent with Centrica’s procedures and ensure that accurate records are kept and maintained.

The Analyst will work closely with Centrica’s trading business, Centrica Energy, to help meet its legal and regulatory obligations.

About the Role:

• You will be expected to carry out risk sensitive due diligence in line with legislation and regulation on financial crime, including the UK Bribery Act, UK, EU and US Sanctions, FCA expectations and money laundering regulations.

• In this role, you will also play a part in preventing, detecting, mitigating and reporting on financial crime risk matters within the Centrica Group.

• In line with Centrica’s financial crime requirements and guidance, and the due diligence procedures, you will classify third parties from a risk and regulatory perspective, including accurate analysis of ownership structures / layered entities and apply appropriate risk ratings.

• You will conduct screening for sanctions, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and adverse information to ensure the timely escalation of issues identified to management for resolution.

• You will liaise with business stakeholders, front office staff and with external parties to obtain relevant CDD documentation and information and ensure that onboarding and reviews are delivered within Service Level Agreements.

• You will escalate issues to the Financial Crime Due Diligence Managers, and where appropriate, Group Financial Crime.

• You will assist with monthly MI reporting regarding the status of work in progress and key risks that need to be managed.

• You will check and review your own work to ensure that high standards of compliance are maintained within the team.

• Use your expertise and knowledge of financial crime laws and regulations, to help determine what impact they may have on due diligence activities.

About You:

• Experience/exposure to global commodity trading business operations and the relationship to third parties.

• Proven track record of undertaking due diligence and enhanced due diligence on a wide range of entities, including private companies, government entities, regulated and unregulated businesses, higher risk jurisdictions and third party intermediaries.

• Understanding of international statutory, regulatory requirements and best practice associated with third party risk management, in particular within the FCA regulated sector.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong analytical skills.

• Confidence in communicating with key business stakeholders and external parties.

• Ability to demonstrate high levels of integrity, and trust, and an ethical track record.

• Ability to demonstrate a strong attention to detail and to swiftly, critically assess information to facilitate business decisions.

• Proficient in use of multiple due diligence/KYC systems and Microsoft Office products.

• Extensive relevant professional experience, i.e., due diligence/KYC, energy market experience in a trading environment, relevant UK compliance, regulatory, legal, risk.

• Certified qualification in AML / KYC from a recognised institution, e.g. ICA / ACAMS or equivalent preferred.

• Demonstrates sound collaboration with peers, team members and internal stakeholders.

What’s in it for you:

If this sounds like a good match for your skills, experience and what you’re looking for as a next step, we’d love to hear from you! In return, we will offer you:

• Competitive salary and bonus potential.

• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap.

• Pension scheme.

• Company Funded Healthcare Plan.

• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days.

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance.

• Colleague-led networks which aim to empower & support colleagues from underrepresented groups.

Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world, for everyone.

#MoreThanACareer

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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