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**Financial Crimes Compliance Analyst** - **Role**: Financial Crimes Compliance Analyst, key member of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) team, safeguarding Vanguard's European businesses from financial crime risks. - **Responsibilities**: Develop and maintain Europe's AFC framework, advise FAS business on compliance, manage policies and assurance programs, analyze and address escalations, support risk assessments and reporting, provide training and act as compliance consultant. - **Skills & Experience**: Minimum 5+ years in AML/CFT, compliance, audit, or risk within financial services (preferably in 2nd line AFC role), strong communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills, ability to interpret and apply regulatory expectations, experience managing reports and policy governance, data analysis and interpretive skills, experience across multiple European jurisdictions and global AFC structures desirable. - **Education**: Degree or equivalent combination of training and experience, plus relevant professional qualification in financial crime. - **Work Environment**: Hybrid working model, three days in Dublin office per week.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
Core Responsibilities
Support the maintenance and enhancement of the European AFC Framework, including methodology updates, documentation improvements, and alignment to groupwide standards.
Advise the FAS business in respect to compliance with the Vanguard global financial crime policy requirements including local European obligations.
Create, update, and manage the Anti Financial Crime policies, procedures, and supplements.
In collaboration with the UK AFC team execute an assurance program for the areas that Vanguard Europe insources and support the creation of specific financial crime testing programs for oversight of outsourced third-party relationships.
Review and analyse escalations in respect to due diligence, screening and transaction monitoring alerts. Resolves exceptions, including unusual and complex issues escalated by more junior team members, according to established guidelines. Collaborates with managers to resolve the most complex issues.
In collaboration with the UK AFC team execute of the Vanguard Europe annual risk assessments methodology for AML, Sanctions and Bribery and Corruption including detailed data gathering, quantitative and qualitative analysis, drafting of risk narratives, and coordination of validation and challenge with stakeholders across the First and Second line of defence.
Support the submission of periodic regulatory and internal AFC reporting for Vanguard Europe and the FAS business, ensuring all submissions are accurate, timely, complete, and delivered according to defined governance and regulatory expectations.
Assist project governance by helping prepare papers, progress updates, risk logs, and milestone reporting.
Provide formal and informal educational activities, including presentations, staff meetings and training programs. Develops and delivers financial crimes related training and education for Vanguard Europe crew members.
Maintains a comprehensive knowledge of the investment industry and compliance developments with implications for Vanguard's financial crimes program. Keeps abreast of the current market, regulatory and industry news. Serve as a consultant on compliance related issues. Acts as a liaison to regulatory agencies.Strong understanding of Anti Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist financing, sanctions and Anti Bribery and Corruption requirements, risk, regulatory expectations, industry practice, business systems and processes in Ireland and the UK.
Skills & Experience
Essential
Significant practical experience delivering or coordinating risk assessments, including data analysis, narrative writing, and validation stages.
Demonstrated experience managing regulatory or internal reporting cycles, including drafting, coordinating, and qualityassuring submissions.
Experience working with policy governance, supporting policy refresh cycles, or maintaining standards frameworks.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience drafting governance papers, risk assessments, or policy content.
High attention to detail, strong organisational skills, and ability to work under pressure in a fastpaced environment.
Ability to interpret regulatory expectations and apply them pragmatically.
Desirable
Experience operating across multiple European jurisdictions and/or global AFC structures.
Experience of supporting the distribution of an Irish UCITS range.
Exposure to transformation or change programmes (e.g., technology enhancements, operating model changes).
Qualifications:
Minimum 5+ years experience in AML/CFT, compliance, audit, or risk within financial services. Management Company/Asset Management 2nd Line AFC experience preferred.
Professional qualification relating to Financial Crime / Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
Special Factors:
This position follows a hybrid working model that will require you to be in our Dublin office three days per week.
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
