SAR Analyst, Fincrime Intelligence and Reporting, UK (6 month contract)

About Tide:

At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting.

Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France.

About the Team:

This role is a key element of our newly established Fincrime Intelligence and Reporting function. You'll be responsible for ensuring we put our genuine members first, through reporting potentially suspicious activity to authorities and taking measures to disrupt criminals. You'll have opportunities to be involved in wider Financial Crime projects which will help reduce risk to Tide and let our members get back to doing what they love.

About the Role:

As an Investigative Reporting Analyst you'll be:

• Achieve and maintain formal accreditation to carry out specific responsibilities on behalf of Tide's Nominated Officer, including collating and evaluating internal reports for inclusion within reports to Law Enforcement and ensuring the accuracy and quality of external reports
• Collating information and writing comprehensive reports relating to all types of financial crime for inclusion within notifications to Law Enforcement Agencies, including SAR submissions
• Supporting in complex, proactive investigations by ensuring we report the right information at the right time to external partners
• Providing assurance by reviewing the outcomes and decisions of cases, determining whether the correct case outcome was achieved and correctly documented
• Providing feedback, leading workshops and training sessions
• Confident in calling out potential efficiencies in our tools and processes, making recommendations for process improvements to prevent future occurrences of fraud/financial crime offences
• Managing your own case load to meet performance targets
• Consistently reaching the targets for Productivity and Quality
• Establishing good relationships with various departments throughout the organisation to ensure good operational synergy
• Treating Tide members fairly by taking responsibility to ensure that their needs are met

What we are looking for:

Here at Tide, we are looking for a proactively minded Investigative Reporting Analyst with a good understanding of Fraud and Financial Crime typologies and prevention measures. We need a passionate and proactive individual, who will help ensure Tide is taking all the relevant steps to report and enforce against all aspects of financial crime. The ideal candidate will have:

• 1 to 3 years of experience in a financial crime investigations, compliance or QA related role in financial services, specialising in business-related anti-money laundering/fraud investigations
• Ability to work well as part of a team; decisive; goal-oriented; proactive
• Strong stakeholder management skills and comfortable communicating with a wide range of associates
• A proactive and open-minded approach to finding effective solutions
• A genuinely curious mindset, asking the right questions at the right times, with a problem solving attitude
• A keen eye for process improvements, looking at how we can work leaner and more robustly
• Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, and able to communicate with our members, internal stakeholders & regulatory bodies if required

What you'll get in return:

• 25 days paid annual leave
• 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
• Extended maternity and paternity leave covered by the company
• Personal L&D budget
• Additional health & dental insurance
• Mental wellbeing platform
• Food vouchers
• Snacks, light food, drinks in the office
• WFH equipment allowance

Tide is a place for everyone

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status. We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success. Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds is what enables us to build products that resonate with our members' diverse needs and lives.

We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone's voice is heard.