Economic Crime Core Investigator

JOB TITLE: Economic Crime Core Investigator

SALARY: £33,203.00 - £34,950.00
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Birmingham
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Are you passionate about fighting economic crime and making a real difference to our customers? Join our expert team and help protect the integrity of the UK’s financial system.

As a Core Investigator, you'll join our Business & Commercial Banking Economic Crime Prevention team, investigating Transaction Monitoring alerts and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). Through intelligence-led investigations, you'll assess economic crime risk, support key customer relationship decisions and help ensure the Bank meets its regulatory obligations.

Day to day, you'll:

• Conduct intelligence-led investigations using internal and external data sources.
• Analyse customer activity, transactional behaviour and due diligence information to identify and assess economic crime risk.
• Make risk-based decisions on case outcomes, escalations and customer relationships.
• Prepare regulatory disclosures where required.
• Manage investigations within agreed quality standards and service level expectations.
• Work collaboratively to share knowledge and improve processes.

You’ll be part of a diverse, energising team that values innovation, learning, and career progression. We’ll support your development and give you the opportunity to make a genuine impact.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

• A minimum of 2 years' experience conducting Transaction Monitoring or Economic Crime investigations within a financial services or law enforcement environment.
• Good working knowledge of relevant UK financial crime legislation and regulation, including the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) and Suspicious Activity Reporting requirements.
• Strong knowledge of economic crime risks and money laundering typologies, including the ability to identify suspicious activity and articulate associated concerns.
• Proven experience analysing complex transactional data, customer information and intelligence to support risk-based decision making.
• Experience conducting investigations, including customer due diligence, intelligence gathering and open-source research, and making clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, produce clear evidence-based outputs and communicate findings effectively to stakeholders.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Understanding of Business & Commercial Banking customers, including complex business structures, higher-risk industries and cross-border activity.
• Professional Financial Crime qualifications such as ICA, ACAMS or equivalent.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)