Fcp Associate

Overview:
With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices spread across five continents, we’re a Fortune-100, Nasdaq-listed provider, connecting clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.

Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, The StoneX Group is made up of four segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

**Commercial**

With boots-on-the-ground authenticity at the heart of everything we do, our comprehensive array of commercial products and services enables you to work directly with our clients, across hedging, risk management, execution and clearing, OTC products, commodity finance, and more.

**Responsibilities**:
**Position Purpose**

To ensure appropriate risk assessment, due diligence, screening, and monitoring are conducted in accordance with policies and procedures, to help ensure that the company is not used to further financial crime

**Job purpose**

In order to support the continuing development of this highly successful business, we require a dynamic, compliance professional to play a key role in supporting the payment services business within the wider compliance team.

**Primary duties will include**
- Ensure that the identities and verification of all customers and beneficial owners are established and verified, where necessary, and that information to support this is kept up to date
- Ensure that customers, related parties, beneficial owners, and transactions are screened for sanctions, PEP exposure, and adverse media
- Ensure that due diligence on customers and transactions is undertaken in line with the required standards
- Ensure that risk is assessed and documented and that higher-risk situations are escalated to senior management
- Ensure that records are maintained, systems of record are up to date, and that notes, and descriptions of actions taken, etc. are clear and comprehensive to support the audit trail of actions and decisions taken
- Ensure that trading activities are reviewed in a timely manner and sanctions alerts are closed effectively.
- Other duties as assigned from time to time

Qualifications:
**To land this role you will need**

Minimum 2 years experience in the second line of defense with focus on AML, Sanctions, and Transaction monitoring, preferably within a payments firm.
- Ideally previous experience of working within a Client Onboarding/ Compliance/ Financial Crime/ department with exposure to Money Laundering, Sanctions, and high-risk markets.
- Comprehensive Knowledge and background of money laundering regulations, JMLSG, GDPR, anti-bribery and corruption and international sanctions.
- Some knowledge of EU and UK Financial Services Regulation, MiFID, WTR, SFTR would be an advantage.

**What makes you stand out**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Law, or other appropriate discipline
- Advanced Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel/SharePoint skills
- A Professional Compliance or AML qualification
- Must be a team player
- Should be able to work independently
- Strong relationship-building and communication skills are essential
- Should have effective planning, organizational, and time management skills
- Must have excellent analytical skills
- Should be able to use good judgment and experience to articulate and document decision-making rationale
- Additional language skills would be an advantage in our global business environment

**Working environment**
- Hybrid

**Education**
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, Law, or other appropriate discipline
- Professional Compliance Qualification - desirable.

**Additional Requirements**
- Must be available and flexible to work in different shift schedules including late night shifts (US Timing) and early morning shifts (Asia Pacific Timings) on a rotational basis according to business needs.
- Willingness to work on holidays, as required