Senior AML Officer

Overview

In this Senior AML Officer role within the New Business Intake function, you will apply your AML and financial crime expertise to support onboarding and complex cases. You will mentor junior team members, act as an escalation point for higher-risk matters, and help ensure regulatory compliance across UK and international clients. The position is based in Bristol with a hybrid pattern, offering a collaborative, development-focused environment. You will partner with fee-earners and business services to balance risk with efficient client inception and ongoing monitoring. This is an opportunity to shape AML practices in a supportive, high‑standards firm.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salaries
• generous benefits
• health and wellbeing initiatives
• hybrid working pattern

Responsibilities

• Collect and review CDD evidence for new clients and matters in line with policy
• Prepare concise CDD reports and risk assessments, guiding fee-earners on enhanced due diligence
• Monitor ongoing CDD and periodic reviews for higher-risk clients in collaboration with fee-earners
• Perform PEPs and sanctions checks, interpret results, and escalate as appropriate
• Act as initial escalation point for AML Officers and junior staff, providing supervision and guidance
• Support AML Team Leads in workflow management and prioritisation of high-risk matters
• Develop internal client relationships to support compliant onboarding and AML processes
• Maintain current awareness of AML and sanctions regulatory changes and update procedures accordingly

Key requirements

• Fully conversant with UK Money Laundering Regulations and EU Directives on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, with sanctions knowledge
• Broad knowledge of domestic and international legal entities, structures, and beneficial ownership
• Experience with high-risk clients, sanctions screening, PEPs, and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
• Experience obtaining CDD from clients and public sources using AML/CDD tools
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical and research skills, data integrity
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills with internal stakeholders
• Excellent communication, able to explain complex patterns to non-technical audiences
• Sound judgement and timely decision-making within policy and escalation thresholds

• strong communication
• interpersonal effectiveness
• mentoring and coaching
• AML / CDD
• PEPs and sanctions checks
• Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)

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