Financial Crime Compliance Analyst
CompanyRealty Income Corporation
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At5/6/2026
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Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
About Realty Income
Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is a real estate partner to the world's leading companies. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and have a portfolio of 15,600 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the UK and six other countries in Europe, with a gross book value $58bn. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company®” and have a mission to deliver stockholders dependable monthly dividends that grow over time. Since our founding, we have declared 656 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index, having increased our dividend for the last 30 consecutive years.
You will be joining one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the world as we rapidly expand into the UK and European markets, including moving into new offices at 3 St. James’s Square.
The European portfolio, including the UK, has experienced consistent growth quarter-on-quarter since our first international acquisition, a £429m 12-property portfolio from Sainsbury’s in 2019. In just five years the portfolio now includes investments of over $11bn, and 483 distinct properties.
This is a high impact opportunity within our expanding Global Compliance team. You will play a key role assisting the build-out of our new global compliance function, gaining exposure to a highly commercial environment through a broad and varied remit. Our flat corporate structure provides genuine visibility and influence, alongside strong opportunities for career development as the firm continues to grow.
Position Overview
Work with and support the firm’s Anti-Financial Crime Compliance, focused on financial crime compliance managing risks relating to money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing, sanctions, bribery & corruption, market abuse, tax evasion and fraud.
The role-holder is accountable for ensuring that day-to-day financial crime risks across the business are identified, assessed and addressed in line with applicable laws and regulations. The role exists to provide clear ownership of operational financial crime decisions, ensure the effectiveness of first line controls and enable timely escalation of material risks to senior compliance leadership.
The role-holder is a decision-maker within defined authority thresholds and an owner of outcomes, not simply an executor of tasks. They are responsible for quality, consistency and defensibility of financial crime compliance judgements made in the course of business activities.
Key Responsibilities
Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is a real estate partner to the world's leading companies. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and have a portfolio of 15,600 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the UK and six other countries in Europe, with a gross book value $58bn. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company®” and have a mission to deliver stockholders dependable monthly dividends that grow over time. Since our founding, we have declared 656 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index, having increased our dividend for the last 30 consecutive years.
You will be joining one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the world as we rapidly expand into the UK and European markets, including moving into new offices at 3 St. James’s Square.
The European portfolio, including the UK, has experienced consistent growth quarter-on-quarter since our first international acquisition, a £429m 12-property portfolio from Sainsbury’s in 2019. In just five years the portfolio now includes investments of over $11bn, and 483 distinct properties.
This is a high impact opportunity within our expanding Global Compliance team. You will play a key role assisting the build-out of our new global compliance function, gaining exposure to a highly commercial environment through a broad and varied remit. Our flat corporate structure provides genuine visibility and influence, alongside strong opportunities for career development as the firm continues to grow.
Position Overview
Work with and support the firm’s Anti-Financial Crime Compliance, focused on financial crime compliance managing risks relating to money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing, sanctions, bribery & corruption, market abuse, tax evasion and fraud.
The role-holder is accountable for ensuring that day-to-day financial crime risks across the business are identified, assessed and addressed in line with applicable laws and regulations. The role exists to provide clear ownership of operational financial crime decisions, ensure the effectiveness of first line controls and enable timely escalation of material risks to senior compliance leadership.
The role-holder is a decision-maker within defined authority thresholds and an owner of outcomes, not simply an executor of tasks. They are responsible for quality, consistency and defensibility of financial crime compliance judgements made in the course of business activities.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Crime Risk Identification and Disposition
- Owning the end-to-end assessment and disposition of sanctions, PEP and adverse media alerts generated through screening systems.
- Making defensible decisions on false positives and risk clearance within delegated authority and ensuring that escalations are timely, well-reasoned and evidence-based.
- Ensuring that unresolved or elevated risks are clearly articulated to the Director, Anti-Financial Crime compliance with recommended actions.
- Operating and maintaining effective oversight of the Gifts & Hospitality (G&H) control framework through StarCompliance.
- Taking ownership of G&H submission reviews, determining appropriateness against policy and resolving or escalating issued based on risk.
- Acting as the control owner for G&H operational compliance, including user guidance and issue resolution.
- Providing authoritative, practical financial crime compliance advice to global business teams.
- Exercising professional judgement to interpret policy and regulatory requirements in real business scenarios.
- Deciding when advice can be given independently versus when matters require escalation for senior determination.
- Owning the accuracy, completeness and relevance of financial crime compliance monitoring data.
- Maintaining the Due Diligence Master List as a reliable record of due diligence activity across the firm, (for Funds, Acquisitions, Asset Management and Commercial Lending etc.).
- Identifying control weaknesses, trends or emerging risks through analysis of management information.
- Determining when issues constitute potential or actual financial crime breaches.
- Ensuring breaches are accurately logged, supported by evidence and escalated with clear analysis.
- Supporting the Director, Anti-Financial Crime Compliance with robust data to inform escalation and regulatory decision-making.
- Contributing to financial crime risk assessments with a focus on control design and operating effectiveness.
- Producing accurate, well-structured management information, analytics and reporting that informs senior decisions.
- Ensuring that reporting highlights material risks, trends and control gaps rather than simply activity volumes.
- Preparing high-quality, well-reasoned draft Suspicious Activity Reports that clearly articulate risk, rationale and supporting facts.
- Ensuring that regulatory submissions are accurate, timely and defensible prior to senior review and approval.
- Supporting the effectiveness of the financial crime framework through training guidance and subject matter input.
- Ensuring employees understand their financial crime obligations and how to apply them in practice.
- Contributing to the ongoing development and refinement of policies, procedures and guidance.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Must Have For The Role
- Suitable experience and expertise from a Financial Crime Compliance role, ideally from a Financial Services regulated firm.
- While we do not set upper or lower limits of PQE for any of our vacancies, candidates with at least 3-6+ years’ Financial Crime Compliance experience is likely to have the right level of knowledge and experience for this role; strong candidates outside of this range will be considered.
- Commercial Finance / Wealth management / Funds and/or Real Estate industry experience is beneficial
- International subject matter expertise (e.g. FCPA, DoJ, FinCen) beneficial
Our Mission & Values
For more than 50 years, Realty Income has been guided by our mission to invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. We do this by nurturing long-term, meaningful relationships that enable people to achieve a better financial outlook. We understand that when individuals succeed financially, they are able to provide for their families, support local businesses and pursue their greatest ambitions, creating a lasting positive impact on communities.
Realty Income is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.
Realty Income is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.