Financial Crime Operations Specialist – Fixed Term Contract (Dec 2026)

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Financial Crime Operations Specialist looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

• Identifying, investigating and advising on Financial Crime Risk Issues
• Ensuring that Paragon are meeting their regulatory requirements
• Conducting thorough Investigations of suspicious activities, fraud and transactions to identify potential Financial Crime risks within Paragon (Both On-boarding and in-life)
• Working with all business areas, within the bank, to assist in identifying and mitigating Financial Crime Risk concerns.
• Ability to work all enquiries that come into Financial Crime Operations, both Internally & Externally.
• Monitor & review Alerts generated by a number of monitoring systems and escalate cases, where necessary. (Such as Dow Jones, Cifas and SIRA)

What you’ll bring to the team

• Significant and proven experience and capability in the identification and mitigation of Financial Crime Risks.
• Experience of fraud prevention agency and regulation screening systems is preferred.
• Ability to develop and maintain internal and external business relationships to exchange routine and non-routine information clearly and concisely.
• A strong understanding of regulatory requirements and the ability to work collaboratively with various departments to ensure compliance and protect the organisation from Financial Crime Risks.
• Ability to use own judgement and all available tools to verify information, make informed decisions and escalate where necessary.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and meet strict SLA's

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply. 

Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.

Working hours

This is a full time position - 37.5 hours per week 

Monday - Friday - 8.30a.m – 5.00p.m.

Hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

Inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone.  If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.

What can we offer you?

• Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
•  Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
•  Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
•  Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
•  Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
•  Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
•  Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
•  Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.

Be yourself

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.