Financial Crime Analyst

Financial Crime Analyst - 6 Month FTC

Please note this position is based in Norwich and the successful candidate’s contractual location will be Norwich; other locations cannot be considered. (If you are relocating to Norwich, please note this on your application)

About Us

At Aviva Investors, our expertise is in matching the right investment approach to each client’s unique needs. As the global asset management business of Aviva plc, we bring together our broad investment capabilities to deliver client-focused solutions worldwide. Managing £273 billion in assets, our 1,000‑strong team across nine countries is brilliantly connected, collaborative, and focused on delivering outcomes that truly matter.

Working together and acting responsibly are central to how we operate. We take time to understand what our clients want to achieve and design solutions that last - strengthening every portfolio with diverse perspectives and integrated thinking. Our long track record in sustainable investing reflects our commitment to doing the right thing for clients and communities alike.

Everyone at Aviva Investors plays a part in creating an exceptional client experience. With the scale and influence to make a real difference, we take our responsibility seriously. Join us and you’ll find an inclusive, supportive environment where your contribution is valued, high performance is recognised, and you’re empowered to shape your development.

We are recruiting for Financial Crime Analyst to join our COO team. This is a great opportunity for someone who has strong experience in financial crime controls and is confident supporting compliance, oversight, and risk management across multiple jurisdictions.  

With a global remit spanning operations, transformation, and IT, our COO team ensures an exceptional client experience. Whether it’s optimising key processes, managing relationships with strategic partners, launching innovative new products, or onboarding clients seamlessly, every project is an opportunity to drive efficiency and innovation at scale.

With global scope and a strong focus on supporting our private markets business, FCC Ops helps Aviva Investors navigate financial crime risk with confidence. From onboarding investors and counterparties to overseeing AML, KYC and sanctions controls with third parties, and driving operational improvements, every project is an opportunity to protect the business while enabling investment activity and growth.

A bit about the role:

In this role, you will support a robust and well-evidenced control environment across Financial Crime Compliance Operations. You will complete control design walkthroughs and operating-effectiveness testing, coordinate risk and control assessments, and track risks, issues and actions within our control monitoring system through to evidenced closure. You will also prepare governance materials and monthly management information, maintain controlled documentation and records, complete data reconciliations, and support data-retention activities, Records of Processing and Data Protection Impact Assessments. Working with Controls Assurance, Risk and Governance, second-line Financial Crime, Data Protection and audit teams, you will identify weaknesses, recommend proportionate improvements and help embed risk, control and privacy considerations into change activity.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Practical experience in risk, controls, governance, assurance or audit within financial services, ideally investment or asset management.

• Hands-on experience of controls testing, including design-adequacy walkthroughs, operating-effectiveness testing and producing clear audit-standard evidence.

• Good knowledge of anti-money laundering, sanctions and wider financial crime risk, together with an understanding of how controls mitigate those risks.

• Experience using risk and issue management systems, completing risk assessments, and managing actions through to evidenced closure; experience using a control monitoring system is essential.

• Strong data, documentation and communication skills, including reconciliations, accurate management information and clear governance reporting; ability to use Excel is required and Power BI experience is desirable. Knowledge of data protection, Records of Processing, Data Protection Impact Assessments and retention requirements is also valuable.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague:

• Competitive salary (depending on skills, experience, and qualifications). 
• Discretionary bonus opportunity - depending on individual performance and Aviva Investors’!
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days!
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
• Make your money go further with up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 annual volunteering days to help others.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. To find out more about working at Aviva, take a look here.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online but if you require an alternative method of applying, please email us at [email protected].

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