Financial Crime Analyst

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

8/7/2025

Are you looking for a dynamic role requiring agility, proactivity and a detail orientated mindset? If so then this is the role for you. As part of the AXA UK Financial Crime Team, you'll support the AXA UK Senior Financial Crime Manager in providing second line financial crime compliance support to AXA UK, AXA Insurance and AXA Health, all as part of the transversal Regulatory and Compliance function.

Your key responsibilities will include supporting the development and implementation of our Financial Crime framework, covering key financial crime compliance pillars of Sanctions, Anti Bribery & Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing.

You'll play a vital role in completing third party due diligence checks, reviewing sanctions screening matches, investigations and internal/external escalations. Additionally, you will support the preparation of reporting for UK regulators, Boards and local committees. You will build strong relationships with stakeholders across all AXA UK entities. Your expertise will help ensure adherence to policies, enhance controls and support ongoing due diligence processes related to Anti-Bribery, Sanctions, and AML functions.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) towards the end of 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the UK Senior Financial Crime Manager by assisting with the maintenance, implementation and development of the Financial Crime framework within the AXA UK group. Covering Anti–Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing, Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Sanctions
• Performing the review of the matches arising from AXA’s sanction screening and participate in Sanctions Alerts management
• Supporting the UK Senior Financial Crime Manager in the preparation of reporting provided to UK, Group, local Boards and Committees and Regulators
• Building and maintaining relationships with all entities within the AXA UK group first line of defence
• Undertaking robust due diligence processes, oversight and ongoing reviews of Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Sanctions and AML/POCA related functions.
• Participating in Financial Crime related projects and initiatives
• Assisting and supporting the UK Senior Financial Crime manager to co-ordinate and undertake any disclosures to law enforcement agencies
• Conducting Anti bribery Due Diligence on third parties in line with policy requirements
  
  
  

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

We know that some candidates may be discouraged from applying if they don't meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this job and the prospect of working at AXA but you’re not sure you tick every box, we’d still encourage you to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Positive, engaging outlook with a drive to succeed
• Intelligent, confident, with excellent communication and influencing skills
• Good knowledge of Financial Crime regulation and legislation
• Capacity to learn and fully comprehend new topics or complex processes
• Develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Aptitude to work and think independently with good organisational skills
• Ability to provide support to high volume administrative tasks, e.g. performing and review sanctions matches, conducting ABC Due Diligence.
  
  
  

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of up to £33,000
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private health cover
• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts
  
  
  

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Who we are:

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.