Job Posting Title Financial Crime Investigator Salary Band £24,252 - £30,247 Grade: LC3 Job Description About the Role This hybrid position allows you to split your working time between home and one of our offices, located in Manchester or Newcastle office Assisting the Financial Crime Unit in the detection and prevention of Money Laundering and Fraud for Newcastle Building Society Group by reviewing alerts in relation to NSSL’s customer onboarding process. You will be responsible for the day-to-day processing and management of referrals into FCU.. You will be able to document and display critical understanding of the key Financial Crime risks for each referral, conducting end to end fraud investigations, requesting extra verification where required. You will liaise with external financial crime contacts, along with internal colleagues daily. About You You are expected to be experienced of working within a Financial Crime environment, processing financial crime alerts and be able to demonstrate you can assess financial crime risk in a timely and effective manner, raising financial crime awareness and able to identify improvements within the Financial Crime Unit processes You will possess the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external members and able to produce accurate work, having exceptional attention to detail. About Us The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers. As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you. What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: Financial Corporate bonus scheme (on target 5%, up to a maximum 10%) Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) Annual performance related pay reviews Colleague mortgage scheme Electric car salary sacrifice scheme Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection Access to our financial advisers Access to a range of high street and online discounts Work/Life Balance A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood Health and Wellbeing Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme Access to an employee assistance programme Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s Two paid volunteering days’ each year Cycle to work scheme Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at dave.cowell@newcastle.co.uk Company: Newcastle Strategic Solutions Limited People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. it’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.