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Financial Crime Apprenticeship Programme 2024 - Cardiff

  1. Cardiff
  2. Full-time
  3. Risk & Regulatory Compliance

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Your role at a glance

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to earn while you learn?

The L&G Apprentice programme has been designed to help you reach your potential.  You will develop your skill set, gain valuable work experience and complete a fully funded professional qualification, all whilst earning a competitive salary with access to outstanding employee benefits.

With support every step of the way and access to core skills training, you will contribute to the success of a team and be supported by a dedicated line manager.  As part of a cohort of apprentices, you will also have the opportunity to connect with your peers and colleagues though networking opportunities and social events.

Joining L&G is the beginning to a future that will be anything but familiar. So take a closer look, get involved, be curious and find out how we will enable you to be at your best no matter who you are.

What does this team do?

Risk Apprentices will join Legal & General’s Financial Crime Operations team which consists of two specialist teams: Central Screening Function and the Enhanced Due Diligence team. These teams work to protect Legal & General from possible financial crime matters. Services these teams perform include:

  • conducting in-depth reviews and investigations into new and existing relationships
  • determining if relationships could be harmful to L&G and escalating as required
  • the screening of customers at onboarding stage, identifying if there is or is a risk presented
  • review of true matches to potential or known criminals, terrorists or sanctioned individual or entities.
  • review of alleged Bribery cases, Money Laundering alerts, Enforcement alert reviews, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and Sanctioned individuals/entities

As a risk apprentice analyst, no working day is the same, so if you like variety within a safe environment (e.g. industry standards, guidelines and best practice) and you love to ask questions to delve deeper and understand why something does (or doesn’t) work – then a career in risk is for you.

We can only accept one application per cycle for our apprenitceship roles, so please consider this before submitting as your first application will be considered your only application. 

We recruit on a rolling basis and expect this vacancy to close before the deadline. To be in with the best chance of securing a role, please submit your application ASAP 


Job Description

Join us on a 24 month programme in which you will complete a Level 3 Risk and Compliance qualification.  You’ll receive on the job training and coaching from your line manager to help you gain the professional, personal, social, and methodical skills needed to succeed in a business analysis career.  Practical on the job learning will include:

  • Seeing, via shadowing, observation
  • Assisting, via active participation and working with your team
  • and lastly, “going solo” with support of your manger as your confidence and skills grow

Alongside this you’ll complete training workshops and assignments, delivered by a leading apprenticeship training provider.  Combined, these will fully equip you to be successful in your role, with the knowledge and skills required to apply to real world business challenges.

During your apprenticeship you will:

  • Develop your investigative techniques to use existing and/or publicly available information to conduct risk-based Customer Due Diligence (CDD) or Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
  • Review screening alerts to identify and assess to identify and risk assess matches supporting the team to complete necessary risk assessments
  • Review Legal & General systems with support from your team to assist Financial Crime Consultants with their investigations into Internal Suspicious Activity referrals
  • Capture information to support a risk based decision in the specified documentation format.
  • Ensure accurate entry of data in the CDD & EDD records or systems. Identify and escalate any issues or risks that require further assistance from financial crime advisory specialists or management
  • Have the opportunity to support the team in production of MI data.
  • Assist members of the team in the production of reports suitable for senior management and external bodies, including FCA, Action Fraud and the National Crime Agency (NCA).
  • Through investigations and screening you will develop your stakeholder analysis and management skills.
  • Develop and enhance personal skills such as confidence, assertiveness, focus, adaptability, curiosity
  • Develop methodical skills such as problem solving, creative thinking, time management
  • apply the knowledge and skills that you’ve learnt from your training into the role

Qualifications

The person who would most benefit and enjoy this programme is hungry to learn and eager to get started in the world of work.  We’re not expecting prior industry experience, but we’ll want to see that you have the aptitude, potential and desire which will ultimately lead to you being successful.  We’ll teach you the rest!

To qualify for the programme, you will need: 

  • 5 x GCSE’s at grade 4-9 (A-C) or above (or equivalent) including Maths and English
  • Minimum 96 UCAS points from your Level 3 Qualifications e.g. A 'levels or equivalent 
  • To not currently be on a government funded training course, e.g. on apprenticeship
  • The right to work in the UK and have lived in the UK or EEA for the past 3 consecutive years. 

 


Additional Information

We believe that good businesses are built on doing the right thing and strive to do what is best for both our people and our customers. This means enabling you to bring your best self to work by giving you what you need, when you need it. 

This is why we’ve designed a process that puts you in control, because we recognise that your time is valuable. At each step, make sure you take time to pause and reflect before progressing to the next, as each subsequent step will ask for a bit more of your time.  

We want you to feel comfortable that this process is as fair and inclusive as possible, so please let us know if you have an illness or disability that you think may affect your performance during the process, so that reasonable adjustments can be made. 

At each step we’ll give more information and clear instructions on what actions you need to take and how you can prepare.

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days’ holiday, private medical insurance, discretionary performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

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We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

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We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

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