Financial Crime Investigations Consultant

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

The Investigations Consultant is an experienced role with day-to-day responsibility for the completion of complex investigations and gathering financial crime intelligence, and supporting the Investigations and FIU Lead to execute their responsibilities.

Financial crime responsibilities:

•Conduct complex cross-jurisdictional or cross-entity financial crime investigations.

•Investigate non-AML financial crime incidents (such as bribery and corruption or sanctions evasion).

•Support the development and maintenance of the Group Financial Crime Response Plan.

•Support the development and maintenance of the investigations manual.

•Support ‘lessons learned’ activities following investigations, including trend analysis and identify feedback related to potential control gaps / failures.

•Support ‘deep dives’ relating to transaction monitoring and fraud monitoring and support dissemination of intelligence to Business Unit 1LoD financial crime teams to support the development of transaction monitoring and fraud typologies.

•Support Financial Crime threat scanning activities.

Additional responsibilities:

•Other tasks and activities within the scope of your role or team as required from time to time.

Skill requirements:

•Experienced in leading financial crime investigations, including analysing financial transactions, records and behavioural patterns to identify illicit activity. (Essential)

•Experienced in gathering intelligence from public open sources including adverse media. (Essential)

•Experienced in gathering, and reviewing investigation summaries and escalate to senior management/governance committees (Essential)

•Experience in filing SARs/STRs/DAMLs (Essential)

•Excellent communications skills, with the ability to communicate with internal senior stakeholder and external stakeholders at relevant regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies.

•Proven experience in conducting horizon scanning activities relating to identification of relevant and emerging financial crime threats.

•Strong communications and report writing skills, with the ability to effectively communication findings to the Investigations and FIU Lead and internal stakeholders, such as Local MLROs.

Experience Level: Experienced Colleague

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers@mandg.com