Transaction Monitoring Analyst (L1 Alerts)

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy expertise and creativity we help clients accelerate operational digital and cultural transformation enabling the change they need to own their future.

Youll help banks asset management and insurance organizations own their future by helping them to transform and create new business models to meet changing customer needs and drive sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

This is an evergreen opportunity used to pipeline for potential upcoming roles in Belfast. We review applications regularly but it is not a currently open role.

Huron is building a Talent Pool of Financial Crime specialists to support future projects within our expanding Belfast-based delivery centre. By joining our Talent Pool youll be first in line when new projects go live enabling faster interview cycles and earlier access to consulting opportunities within Hurons growing Financial Crimes capability.

If you want to be part of a high-performing team delivering impactful compliance and regulatory work for global clientsand prefer to engage ahead of live requisitionsapplying for this role is an ideal entry point.

Your Role: Transaction Monitoring Alert Analyst (L1)

As a member of our Belfast-based Financial Crimes Service Delivery Centre you will be aligned to a project conducting firstline review and triage of transaction monitoring and screening alerts helping clients manage alert volumes efficiently while maintaining strong regulatory standards. You will work within defined procedures to identify false positives escalate genuine risks and ensure alerts are handled accurately consistently and in line with client expectations. While the scope of each project may be different your duties & responsibilities may include:

- Performfirst-levelreview of AML alerts toidentifyfalse positives and escalate genuine concerns for further investigation.

- Managing multiple queues of account screening and real-time transaction screening alerts.

- Conduct initial triage of transaction monitoring alerts.

- Review basic customer account and due diligence information using internal systems and due diligence documentation.

- Review alerted transactions and patterns and analyse for red flags.

- Perform due diligence research using commercial databases and online open-source information.

- Document rationale for clearing or escalating alerts.

- Maintain high productivity while meeting quality standards.

- Conducting thorough reviews of transactional histories for flagged accounts

- Document recipient interactions any recipient issues or complaints and outcomes immediately in LOCS.

- Escalate significant red flags or concerns identified to senior team members as appropriate.

- Identify and escalate red flags indicative of financial crime or compliance vulnerabilities contributing to the development of effective mitigation strategies.

The Profile Were Looking For: An Experienced Transaction Monitoring Analyst

We are looking for candidates who combine investigative rigour with strong analytical and stakeholder management skills. Required background includes:

- Strong educational background Degree in Finance Legal STEM a plus.

- 2 years experience in Transaction Monitoring with a proven record of conducting detailed investigations into high-risk financial activities identifying potential patterns of money laundering fraud and other suspicious activities.

- Experience in reviewing alerts analysing transaction data and identifying red flags associated with suspicious activity

- Experience working with banks payment processors and/or FinTechs either directly or working for a 3rd party providing consulting/outsourced services to these institutions.

- Strong understanding of the compliance and regulatory frameworks that apply to financial institutions regarding AML.

- Familiarity with transaction monitoring systems.

- Understanding of Financial crime guide / industry standards.

- Understanding of suspicious activity identification and reporting regulatory requirements in the U.S. UK and EU (e.g. Bank Secrecy Act MLR 2017 Proceeds of Crime Act Anti-Money Laundering Directives EU country level requirements etc.)

- Experience reviewing international and cross-border payment activity (e.g. wires correspondent banking transactions electronic payments etc.)

- Experience reviewing consumer and business transactions including cash activity mobile payments online payments etc.

- Very strong attention to detail and capable of analytical thinking

- Excellent communication skills across all levels of seniority.

- Strong interpersonal skills with good relationship building and engagement skills.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite particularly Excel Word and PowerPoint.

Equal Opportunity & Compliance

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Position Level

Analyst

Country

United Kingdom

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1