Who we are:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.
We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.
For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.
We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.
What we stand for:
It’s simple … we want to help people confidently take control of their financial future, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength and be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight talking and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate and encouraged to fight for what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.
Purpose of the role:
Reporting to the Financial Crime Prevention Manager, this entry-level role is responsible for providing direct support to the business on Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering and Market Abuse. The Trainee Financial Crime Prevention Analyst role ensures compliance with the appropriate regulations, policies and procedures in order to mitigate these risks to the business and clients.
This role can be based in either the Manchester office or the Leeds office.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
As well as ensuring all daily tasks and monitoring are completed, the role is responsible for:
- Review suspicious transaction reports from across the business, undertake investigations and take mitigating actions if necessary
- Nominated Bank Account approvals – Reviewing Nominated Bank change requests that do not pass electronic validation and carrying out further checks e.g. voice matches
- Market Abuse Monitoring - review customer trades to identify potential Insider Dealing or Market Manipulation, referring suspicions appropriately
- Transaction Monitoring – reviewing customer deposits, withdrawals and trading activity, establishing when further action is needed e.g. Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)/Scope of Work request or Money Laundering report to Compliance
- Reviewing EDD and Scope of Work EDD evidence received from customers, establishing if the account activity is in line with a customer’s overall wealth
- Identifying High Risk Customers, including Politically Exposed Persons and creating “High Risk Packs” for Compliance sign off
Eligibility Criteria:
To apply for this role, you will need:
- To be at least 18 years old as of 1st September 2025
- Be a UK/EEA citizen or have lived in the UK/EEA continuously for the last 3 years
- To be eligible to work in the UK and not in full-time education
- To have achieved, or predicted to achieve in 2025, a level 3 qualification, such as A-levels or equivalent
- Maths and English GCSE (or equivalent) grades A* to C (new grades 9 to 4)
- You must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level in a similar subject
- A basic understanding of coding is desirable
Personal Attributes:
STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME
- High standard of written and verbal communication and good attention to detail
- Ability to manage difficult conversations
- Understanding of the regulatory environment and the standards required for client protection
- Highly motivated, proactive individual able to manage your own workload and take initiative to manage deadlines
- Advanced organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure, handling multiple tasks with changing priorities
- Basic understanding of financial crime risk management across Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering and Market Abuse
- Advanced emotional resilience with the ability to stay calm under pressure
About the Apprenticeship:
As a Trainee Financial Crime Prevention Analyst you will develop the technical knowledge plus the professional skills and behaviours to work within our exciting and fast-paced Risk and Control team, gaining valuable work experience plus achieving a qualification through a structured apprenticeship programme to kick-start your career.
Within your development program, you will learn and grow technical knowledge in the following areas:
- Understanding of the risk and compliance framework, the industry, and the organisation
- Understanding of policies and procedures specific to the role, e.g. operational risk, financial crime, conduct risk, and data security
- Competency in the systems, tools and processes specific to the role
By the end of the apprenticeship, you will achieve your Level 3 Compliance Risk Officer apprenticeship plus you will gain a professional globally recognised qualification with the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) or International Compliance Association (ICA). Typically, the apprenticeship will take around 18 months to complete.
Important:
Salary: 27,300
Assessment centre dates: July 2025
Start date: Monday 1st September 2025
