Junior MI Analyst - Financial Crime
CR1 – up to £30,000
Manchester/Skelmersdale/Hybrid
Want to change the world? A career that makes a difference.
We’re not a bank that follows the crowd. Instead, we like to stand out for all the right reasons. Our bank is built on co-operative values that stand strong today. A lot has happened since our story began, we don’t just help people with their money, but help people fight for justice and the causes they care about. Our unique customer-led Ethical Policy, has made us a natural leader in environmental and social issues today, and we’re market leaders in ESG as rated by leading ESG ratings agency Sustainalytics*.
There has never been a more pressing time for our Bank to focus our efforts on causes that matter to our customers and colleagues. Why not see where you can make a change, and join the UK’s original ethical bank to continue our ambitions to lead the industry on environmental and social issues today and beyond.
We promote a hybrid working environment, which means you will work at our office roughly once per week and then remotely from home. To enable you to work from home, you will need have a suitable office set up which includes a desk and a chair in a location which is free from the interruptions of day-to-day life.
Our role:
The Co-operative Bank is a UK-wide provider of financial services, giving award-winning levels of customer service to millions of retail and business customers across the UK. We’re looking for a junior Financial Crime analyst to undertake a full range of operational insight and MI activities. This will include running and distributing reports and supporting Financial Crime colleagues with insights and supporting data queries to enable risks to be identified, monitored and mitigated.
What you will be doing:
- Define, build and maintain reports to support operational decisions in protecting customers from fraud activity.
- Maintain central resources for fraud KPIs, ORIs and KRIs, gathering data on a monthly or weekly basis dependent on business need.
- Run and distribute daily, weekly and monthly reports from existing data processes and operational systems.
- Support with defined regulatory reporting and ad-hoc queries from regulators.
- Aiding data and reporting developments by gathering, reconciling and understanding new data sources.
- Support activities to identify operational requirements and opportunities for improvement by testing the effectiveness of new and existing processes.
- Be involved with problem solving - identifying exceptions and feeding these back into the relevant teams for review or remediation.
- Collaborate with colleagues and key stakeholders across the business.
- Provide input to strategic / governance committee policy change recommendations to present professional recommendations with detailed analytical data to support.
- Develop knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and broad knowledge of fraud issues relevant to the role.
What you need to be successful:
- Experience in financial crime management and financial crime industry knowledge
- SAS knowledge preferred (or alternative data manipulation tools)
- Data analysis experience
- Broad knowledge of the financial market place and the legislative and regulatory issues affecting Financial Crime.
- Proficiency in using MS Office Applications especially Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Teams.
- Experience of working with large datasets in Excel, summarising and filtering data into report formats, including Pivot Tables and graphs.
- Ability to analyse information effectively.
- Ability to communicate effectively with the team and others on a range of technical/analytical information both written and verbally.
- Proven presentation and listening skills, communicate appropriately at all levels, able to communicate complex technical information to differing audiences.
- Experience of working with Fraud or a basic knowledge of data structures.
- Confidence to ask the questions needed in order to understand and fulfil requirements.
- A proactive approach to personal development and learning
Interview Process:
- 15 minute pre-screen with a Talent Specialist
- 1hr Competency based interview (virtual)
- Review
- Feedback & outcome
Our benefits include:
- Flexible and home working options
- 27 days holiday rising to 30 with service, plus opportunity to buy 5 extra days
- Competitive pension with up to 10% employer contribution
- Income protection / life assurance
- Wellbeing support ‘Help@Hand’ offers mental health support, physiotherapy, GP’s for both you and your family.
- 2 paid days for volunteering per year
- ‘MyReward’ corporate discount for over 800 retailers and Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Family friendly policies and supportive working environment
- Colleague network groups committed to inclusion and diversity within our Bank.
We can only consider candidates with the right to work in the UK at this time.
If you require more information or this document in a different format, please contact careers@co-operativebank.co.uk