Join Santander Consumer Bank as an Investigation Analyst

As an Investigation Analyst you have a critical role in helping Santander Consumer Bank to truly know its customers and the risks it is exposed to at any given moment. Santander recognizes its responsibility to prevent money laundering & Fraud activities in order to protect its shareholders, customers, partners, employees, and reputation. Key to making this happen is an Investigation Analyst.

An Investigation Analyst in cooperation with the rest of the team will prevent financial crime by analyzing transaction monitoring alerts. This is crucial to ensure constant development of financial crime prevention within the Bank and be in line with rapidly changing regulatory environment.

Main task and responsibilities

The main responsibility of an Investigation Analyst is to analyze transaction monitoring alerts within timely manner and with high quality documentation.

Additionally, an Investigation Analyst should advice and support the Bank in identifying red flags and unusual activity.

The tasks will include, but not be limited to the following: Transaction Monitoring

• Perform analysis of transaction monitoring alerts
• Document sufficiently false positive alerts
• Escalate alerts required for further investigation
• Customer contact on unusual activity
• Contact with other banks on common transactions

Procedures and Framework: Keep track of regulatory changes and continuously review business practices to ensure it is in line with the changes

Stakeholder management and advisory: Support the bank in red flag and unusual activity identification.

Actively advice close stakeholder on customer due diligence processes across the Bank

Reporting and risk assessment: Provide input to Business Risk Assessment

Training: Contribute to execution of training based on red flag and unusual activity identification

Personal Characteristics

• Strong integrity / ethics -- ensures all processes are Compliant and follows International and local Banking Regulations
• Strong time management skills
• Organized, structured, result oriented
• Highly independent, innovative and self-driven
• Attentive to detail
• Passionate about preventing Financial Crime and upholding Santander reputation as a responsible bank
• Thrive in a dynamic and changing environment
• Passionate about analysis
• Eager to learn

Competencies and Skills

• Good knowledge of financial crime prevention and - risk
• Possess analytical mindset
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Norwegian

Experience

• +2 years relevant work experience; preferably in banking industry within Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime or Risk functions
• Basic experience with financial crime prevention
• Proven experience in transaction monitoring and/or investigations would be an advantage

Education

• Higher education in Economics, Business Administration, Law, or any other related field. Relevant experience can compensate for missing degree.
• Holding ACAMS and/or ICA certification is considered an advantage.

We offer

• An opportunity to work in a large, high-performing international company, in a dynamic environment that is constantly changing
• A corporate culture that is professional, yet informal, customer and value driven
• Highly competent and dedicated co-workers with strong collaboration across the Nordics
• A high level of diversity and multi-cultural working atmosphere
• A strong focus on learning and development
• Multiple sports and social events

We review applications as they come in, so we encourage you to apply soon to ensure your application is considered. We look forward to hearing from you!

We perform background checks on all relevant candidates. For positions that require authorization and/or confirmation of suitability, a police certificate of good conduct and credit check must be presented. Background check is carried out with prior consent from the candidate.