Role overview
- ID: 2025-6941
- Entity: Vistry Services
- Region: Vistry Services
- Department: Company Secretariat, Legal, Audit & Risk
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Coleshill, West Midlands
- Date Posted: 14.03.2025
We have an exciting opportunity for anAML Compliance Assistant to join our team within Vistry Services, at multiple locations including Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and Coleshill, West Midlands. As our Legal Assistant, you will be an experienced AML legal assistant (private practice experience preferred). You will be supporting and assisting the Assistant Legal Counsel with day-to-day duties. You will also be working collaboratively with panel firms and key stakeholders to drive structure, process and best practice.
- Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
- 2 Volunteering days per annum
- Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
- Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
- Share save and share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
- In return, what we would like from you...
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Previous experience in an AML or compliance role
- Strong analytical and investigative skills
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to work independently
- Good understanding of AML regulations and best practices
- Proficiency in using AML software and tools
- A pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to work under pressure and prioritise workload
- Discretion and integrity in attitude and approach
- Fast-pace in-house legal environment, working to tight deadlines
- A team player
- Work collaboratively across business functions
- Solutions driven
- More about the AML Compliance Assistant role...
- To provide support to the Assistant Legal Counsel, in day-to-day duties
- To assess the risk profile of customers and whether there have been any changes
- Liaise with Regional teams to assist with client due diligence queries and escalations to Group Legal
- Review company searches and run press searches
- Support the Assistant Legal Counsel in the administration of general anti-money laundering issues and client due diligence matters
- Assist members of the AML team with research projects and day-to-day compliance with AML regulatory matters as they arise
- Support the Assistant Legal Counsel with AML training to the business
- To undertake general legal duties associated with anti-money laundering compliance
- To escalate any potential and actual difficulties regarding legal matters to the Assistant Legal Counsel for review and guidance
Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...
We build more than homes, we’re making Vistry. Being a responsible developer and award-winning employer means we live each day through our ethos - doing the right thing. Our behaviours reflect this, as well as our values of integrity, caring and quality. Shaping all we do; they empowerus to develop sustainable communities across affordable and private housing. We work in a partnership-led way, and you’ll recognise our renowned brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Together with Vistry Works, our manufacturing operation,â¯and the functional support of Vistry Services, we’re a proud UK Green Building Council member, UK top five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating, and winner of many awards including Top Employer, Global Top Inspiring Workplaces, and Best for Talent Attraction and Outreach.
Join us in making Vistry.
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Benefits
Annual Leave
Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.
Pension with Legal & General
Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.
Volunteer Days
With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.
Why Vistry
Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.