Financial Crime Officer

Job Description

Location: Bristol (Hybrid)

In this position, you’ll be based in the Bristol office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at

We give you a world of potential

Computershare has an exciting opportunity for a Financial Crime Officer to join our Global Information Security group (GIS), as part of our Global Financial crime unit (FCU).

The FCU provides advice, guidance, and support to Computershare’s businesses in respect of preventing and identifying internal and external fraudulent activity.

The FCU conduct investigations into potentially fraudulent activity and undertakes detective controls. In addition, the team provides the business with assurance over its fraud control environment, by conducting reviews and monitoring for indicators of fraudulent activity, supporting the business to achieve its strategic goals.

A role you will love

As one of our Financial Crime Officers (EMEA), you will be a key member of our Global Financial Crime Unit. You will be responsible for the prevention, detection, response, reporting and escalation of all internal and external Fraud across all business units within Computershare’s operations in the EMEA region of responsibility.

You will also be responsible for reviewing daily generated financial crime monitoring reports and manual referrals and completing them accurately in a timely manner. In addition you'll review and analyse customer information within our systems and work alongside the business to clarify the monitoring alert. You’ll also update and maintain lifecycle and status of each case management system alert.

As part of our Global Financial Crime Unit, you will ensure we are delivering a consistent, best-in‑class service to our global customer base within EMEA.

• Focusing on identifying where controls failed or were not strong enough/in place to prevent fraudulent activity.
• Ensuring oversight of all findings and remedial actions via the GRC system, and track those through to completion.
• Proposing short, medium and long‑term remediation recommendations agreed with the business by providing SME recommendations to the business and working collaboratively with them to determine the best outcomes.
• Critically reviewing monitoring alerts to protect Computershare customers and clients.
• Continuous monitoring of industry reports, news, and publications on fraud trends.
• Staying informed about changes in regulations and compliance requirements that may impact fraud risk.

This role requires great organisation skills and an excellent eye for detail, to ensure a high level of accuracy in written documentation.

Experience with fraud/financial crime investigations and/or assurance in either a first or second line role. Ideally within either financial services, legal/law enforcement or risk and/or compliance environment.

The ability to be flexible is essential, particularly as this is a global role and the role holder will be expected to work with the other FCU Team members in various locations. The FCU team members are geographically spread and some meetings are scheduled outside of usual working hours in order to facilitate collaboration.

• Experience working with the Microsoft Office suite of products including PowerPoint, One Note, Power BI, and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of technological solutions (e.g. Governance, risk and control systems, fraud prevention systems).
• An understanding of risk and governance operations in financial services firms.
• Up to date knowledge of current trends in fraud prevention and identification, e.g. insights and legislation.
• Proven negotiation and influencing skills to ensure that the business understand and respond to assurance activity.
• Excellent written skills and strong verbal skills.
• Experience working in an investment environment would be beneficial but not required.

If you have the experience we are looking for and the flexibility to collaborate across our Global network we want to hear from you!

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