Fircosoft Sanctions Screening Team - Associate

Profile Summary

The Firco Team oversees the screening and review of payments and client data to ensure compliance with sanctions and AML requirements. The team manages first‑ and second‑line reviews, maintains screening rules, and supports internal stakeholders through timely analysis, issue resolution, and process oversight. With a focus on accuracy, risk control, and operational efficiency, the team plays a key role in safeguarding the organisation’s financial crime controls.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform Level 1 first and second review of messages stopped in Fircosoft Continuity
• Manage staff split between processing stopped messages in Firco Continuity and the creation and checking of GCIF/CCIF/CDM
• Provide training and feedback for team members
• Firco Team mailbox, monitor and respond to queries from internal teams
• Utilise skills matrix to enhance skills knowledge across all Team processes
• Create weekly shift rota to ensure coverage for all 3 shifts within the team
• Attended and contribute in meetings in place of team manager
• Lead and manage projects for the Firco Team
• Produce monthly stats package for the Firco team including number of referrals and Rules/Good Guys created
• Create Firco Rules to help manage the hit rate in Firco Continuity
• Ensure completion of various checklists both daily and ad-hoc
• Host monthly team meetings, including payment review sessions.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Experience using client screening/payment filter software such as Fircosoft (or similar)
• Experience creating Sanctions and PEP lists
• Current understanding of AML regulatory requirements
• Analytical knowledge and expertise with ability to interrogate large data
• Great organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Customer-centric career experience

What Mizuho Can Offer You

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days’ annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.