Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

MUFG has a global network spanning 50+ markets, with over 2,000 offices worldwide, and over 360 years of history. We offer services across commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing, providing stability and expertise in a dynamic financial landscape.

This temporary assignment will be working at MUFG, and may involve working at an MUFG site, you will however be contracted through Magnit Global, a UK registered employment business with the company registration number 05537535.

Main Purpose of the role:

You will be supporting the Financial Crime Operations team, delivering against our objectives for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role you will be working within FCOE Operations with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Alert handling and investigations function. The team carries out analysis of the transactional behavior of MUFG’s clients and investigation of alerts generated in MUFG’s transaction monitoring system across EMEA. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertaking an Alert Review for all Manual and Automated Alerts.
• Where required, carrying out Case Investigation including the collection of transactional, account and open-source, consolidation, packaging and delivery of information.
• Transaction monitoring (TM) for L1 and L2.
• Liaising with the Relationship Managers and obtaining additional information in course of the investigation.
• Providing suitable recommendations to either close or escalate Cases to L3.
• Supporting Business As Usual activities.
• Undertaking Quality Control (QC) on Cases which have been recommended for closure.
• Supporting the allocation and prioritisation of Alerts.
• Managing Whitelisted and Close Monitored customers
• Monitoring multiple AML investigations mailbox.
• Providing input and recommendations to Global Technology and Intel & Analytics initiatives and processes.
• Supporting in the delivery of Management Information reporting.
• Supporting the team lead with Quality Assurance activities.
• Supporting in the updating AML Procedures and Policies.
• In addition to the duties described above, you will contribute to the work of the Compliance department in any other ways reasonably expected, including memberships of projects and working groups and assisting with other priorities in the department or group as a whole. 

Skills/Experience:

• At least 2 -3 years’ experience within AML area of a global bank, consulting firm or regulatory agency is essential for this role.
• Experience of managing stakeholder relationships within and outside of the local function/role.
• Knowledge of a wide variety of financial crimes compliance laws and regulations.
• Excellent judgement and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of AML and the regulatory environment.
• Degree or equivalent industry standard qualification.