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Graduate Economic Crime Risk
Student Loans Company
Full-time
Glasgow
Hybrid
£27,878
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Application closing date:
Feb 28, 2026
About the organisation
- Student Loans Company is a non-profit making Government-owned organisation to provide loans and grants to students in universities and colleges in the UK. Since 1989, we have enabled our customers to invest in their futures by delivering secure, accurate and efficient assessment, payment and repayment services.
About the vacancy
- The Economic Crime Unit (ECU) provides oversight of SLC’s approach to financial crime risk, ensuring risks are identified, mitigated, and effectively managed across the organisation. This includes setting expectations for how economic crime risk is managed in line with the Enterprise Risk and Compliance (ERC) Policy, Framework, and Statement of Intent (SOI).
As a key Second Line of Defence (2LoD) function, the ECU offers independent risk management advice, monitors how well financial crime risks are controlled, and ensures safeguards are in place to protect SLC from internal and external threats. The ECU also undertakes investigations into suspected fraud and helps build a strong culture of risk awareness to protect SLC from financial loss and reputational harm.
As a Graduate in the Economic Crime Unit, you’ll support the delivery of key projects and initiatives that directly strengthen SLC’s financial crime prevention efforts. During this 24month rotational programme, you’ll gain hands-on exposure to essential business activities while developing core skills across all ECU specialisms.
If you’re driven by analytical thinking, motivated by protecting organisations from risk, and excited by the idea of tackling real world financial crime challenges, this programme is designed for you.
Through a combination of structured learning modules and practical on-the-job experience, you’ll build technical knowledge, develop professional confidence, and play a meaningful role in supporting SLC’s compliance and risk management objectives.
You’ll rotate across six specialist areas — Governance; Analysis & Intelligence; Interventions; Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Internal Threat; and Assurance — giving you a unique, holistic understanding of how economic crime is prevented, detected, and responded to within a major public facing organisation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to explore the full spectrum of economic crime disciplines, shape your career path, and contribute to safeguarding an organisation that supports millions of learners across the UK.
You’ll work closely with experienced colleagues, receive ongoing mentorship, and actively contribute to projects and activities that strengthen SLC’s defences and support effective decision-making.
Ultimately, your work will help ensure SLC manages its economic crime risk effectively and maintains the highest standards of integrity and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
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Key Competencies
- Essential
• Ability to:
o communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues and customers by actively listening and delivering quality information timely
o manage, interpret, and use data to support decision making and drive effective outcomes
o use digital tools and technologies to communicate, access information, and solve problems
o identify, assess and manage risks to minimise potential impacts
o demonstrate readiness to new ways of working and remain effective in ambiguous situations while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
• Sufficient resilience to operate within a dynamic and evolving environment, and a passion to continually improve an organisations approach to economic crime risk
• The confidence and ability to engage effectively with a wide range of internal and external economic crime stakeholders
Desirable
• The ability to design and implement new intervention-based processes and activities
• Knowledge of economic crime risk management
• A qualification relating to Economic Crime / Money Laundering
Desired Qualifications
- Essential:
Degree in a relevant subject, such as Risk Management or Economic Crime Management at a 2.2 or above, anticipated by Summer 2026 or gained within the last two years.
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