Belfast, UK
8 days ago
Talent Pool - Financial Crime Consultant
Welcome page Returning Candidate? Log back in! Talent Pool - Financial Crime Consultant Job Locations UK-Belfast ID 2025-2353 Category Consulting Type Full-Time Employee Service Areas FCFS Overview

We are looking for individuals from consulting, investment banking or financial services backgrounds to join our team. If you wish to be considered for any future roles we have within Financial Crime, please share your CV with us so we can add you to our future Talent Pool community.

Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges. 

We provide data-driven, technology-enabled advisory and consulting, implementation, staffing and managed services solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients. 

Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices across the United States, London, Belfast, and Łódź, Poland. For more information visit www.treliant.com. 

Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs (“the principles”). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential.

Responsibilities

While the scope of each project may be different, your duties & responsibilities may include: 

 

Transaction Monitoring

Managing multiple queues of account screening and real-time transaction screening alertConducting thorough reviews of transactional histories for flagged accounts, taking appropriate actions, and refining rules as necessaryServing as an escalation point for complex transaction alertsDefining and implementing new transaction monitoring alerts for enhanced detectionFilling Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)Identifying opportunities to streamline or improve current processes

Trade Surveillance

Use surveillance applications to track price and volume movements in various financial products like equities and derivativesIdentify unusual trading patterns and investigate potential market abusePrepare and present reports on suspicious activities to compliance and risk management teamsWork with different teams to ensure effective risk management

AML / KYC

Review a backlog of institutional client transactional activity reports to assess for deviations from expected behavioursDisposition alerts generated from the migration of systemsEnsure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policiesSupport the client’s BSA/AML and sanctions compliance efforts by assessing and addressing potential risks in transactional data

Sanctions

Managing multiple queues of account screening and real-time transaction screening alerts; exercise judgment and sanctions knowledge by reviewing internal data against reference data and recommending a dispositionConducting open-source research and client outreach for alerts requiring additional informationAdvising management by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trendsMaintaining accurate tracking of assignments to ensure appropriate deadlines are metPerforming supplementary sanctions due diligence and research for complex escalations

CDD / EDD

Analyse customers' transactional activities to identify possible suspicious activitiesInvestigate possible money laundering, terrorist financing transactional and fraud activitiesDetermine if customer EDD alert review documentation is complete to support a recommendation to an adjustment for the level of risk for the clients high risk customer ratingReview and evaluate risk-based CDD on actual and potential clients in accordance with policy, procedure and local laws and regulationsDetect and mitigate red flags for potential financial crime,Assess if the customers level of risk rating is accurate as is, or needs to be adjusted up or, down based on documentation provided in the Alert reviewProvide recommendation of risk adjustment and as necessary make the needed adjustments to the customers risk in the client’s system Qualifications Strong education background - Degree in a Finance, Legal or STEM subject a plus1-3 years' experience of one or more of the above areas in Financial Crime; Transaction Monitoring, Trade Surveillance, Sanctions, KYC, Anti-Money Laundering, EDD/CDDExperience of working on financial crime projects, either directly with a bank/financial institution or via a third party providing consulting servicesStrong understanding of the compliance and regulatory frameworks that apply to financial institutions regarding AMLAbility to understand Financial Crime guides / industry standardsConfident communicating with management/stakeholders, producing reports and helping manage project lifecycles with relevant industry toolingAbility to identify and flag anomalies for reviewStrong decision-making skills in a fast-paced and pressurised environmentVery strong attention to detail and capable of analytical thinkingStrong MS Office skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

We are committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and want to build a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are interested in working for Treliant but don’t tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits

If you want to be part of a dynamic team of professionals, we invite you to join the team at Treliant. We invest in people, and challenge you to advance your career while achieving your aspirations and goals. Here at Treliant, we pride ourselves on our collaborative team culture, where we embrace diversity of thought and innovation. 

Career Development - We put an emphasis on personal and professional growth by providing all the training you’ll need to become a highly skilled Treliant consultant. Programs cover Finance, Regulatory, Technology, and Operational aspects of investment banking. 

Clients – As a Treliant consultant, you will be working with some of the top clients in the financial services marketplace such as top tier Investment Banks. Our roles place you at the cutting edge of the projects on which you’ll be working, and giving you the opportunity to learn from, work with and build relationships with the very best within those companies. 

Rewards – Treliant offers our permanent staff an excellent total rewards package, including competitive base salary, incentive schemes, flexible healthcare coverage and our company pension scheme. 

Core Values – Whether you are a Client or an employee, Treliant wants the best for you. All our relationships are based on our Core Values: Deliver Excellence, Constantly Innovate, Treasure Diversity, Be Nimble, Listen First, and Develop our People. 

Diversity & Inclusion – Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs (“the principles”). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential. 

 

Right to Work  

Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United Kingdom without requiring sponsorship. 

Please note, Treliant receive a high volume of applications for all roles.  While we will endeavour to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.  However, we would like to retain your details on our systems and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.  

Treliant LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, religion, age, disability, or military status in employment or provision of services. When contacted for an interview, an applicant who requires special accommodations due to a disability should notify the office so that proper arrangements can be made. 

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