Financial Crime Analyst, LOD1

Summary

Join Zepz, a leading global remittance company, as an Analyst - Financial Crime Holds. You will be responsible for transaction monitoring, fraud investigation, and flagging suspicious activities. This role requires screening transactions, conducting client profiling, and performing adverse media screenings. Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential. A bachelor's degree is preferred, along with less than one year of relevant experience. The position demands flexibility with shift patterns, including holidays and weekends, and on-site work. Zepz offers competitive benefits including unlimited annual leave, private medical cover, retirement plans, life assurance, and parental leave, along with a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to work creatively with strong problem solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities and demands
• Excellent time management, organizational, and planning skills
• Customer-oriented with proven ability to establish productive working relationships with clients, staff and management at all levels
• Must be keen to detail
• Excellent research skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Sound decision-making skills
• This role requires you to be fully flexible with shift patterns, working on holidays and on weekends, and working on site
• Bachelor's Degree in related field from a four-year college or university with less than one year of relevant experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for screening transactions and conducting research to combat money laundering and anti-terrorist financing
• Conduct extensive profiling of clients in order to identify any risks on any inappropriate usage of Zepz platform and/or related to money laundering or Financing of terrorism and appropriately flag them
• Conduct adverse media screening to check for criminal activities or political affiliations and apply risk analysis to evaluate the integrity risk of the customer
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven abilities in communicating with other parts of the business such as Compliance, Customer Support and Operations
• Be responsible for the onboarding of the customer by verification the identity of the customer through standard KYC check per sending country regulations

Benefits

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible
• We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive