AML Officer - Fixed Term Contract

Job Title: AML Officer

Salary: £29,460

Location: Cardnet, Phoenix House, Christopher Martin road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EZ

Hours: Full Time - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of our time, at one of our office sites once fully trained.

About this Opportunity

Part of Lloyds Banking Group, Cardnet are a provider of merchant acquiring across the UK. We're a joint venture with Fiserv and support all merchants with their card acquiring needs.  Cardnet is a fantastic team within LBG with a meaningful part to play in Helping Britain Prosper. 
 

This is your chance to be part of a dynamic team onboarding new and existing merchants and help us grow our business.

As an AML Officer you will be responsible for ensuring Cardnet remains compliant within CDD standards, the Group Policy and legal requirements relevant to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing.  You will be undertaking customer due diligence for new and existing commercial clients in line with AML standards and collaborating with the Client Development teams on Financial Crime Policies and Procedures.  You will also be sharing best practice and developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with all operational and processing areas of Fiserv to ensure a smooth end to end onboarding process for the client.  AML Officers are also encouraged to take accountability for explaining and supporting colleagues with achieving Right First Time when completing new and existing applications.

The AML Team have 6 colleagues working closely together to support both from within and also the wider Cardnet community. This is a great opportunity to expand your skillset and gain a great understanding of customer due diligence.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us.  The investments we’re making in our people, data and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.

What you’ll need

• Carries out simple procedural tasks to support management of external client relationships.
  Works within current standard compliance processes, systems, and procedures, and reports simple non-compliance issues.
• Procedural/Product/Specialist Knowledge - strong technical knowledge of Anti-Bribery, AML and Sanctions and good technical knowledge of other financial crime areas
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Organisational Awareness – Knows how to get things done and gain commitment
• Stakeholder Management – Knows how to influence others to achieve objectives
• Ability to build & maintain internal / external customer relationships
• Be an active team player who can prioritise their workload
• Creates, organises and maintains files for correspondence and records.
• Develops personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.
  Collects and prepares standard data related to ongoing issues.
• Supports others by performing routine policy-related tasks according to established procedures.

Training Plan

Due to the technicalities of the role, side-by-side training is required and there is an expectation for 100% office attendance for the first 6 weeks, which will drop to 60% once initial training completed.

About Working for Us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident.  So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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 general parental leave policies.

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you.