Financial Crime & Compliance Associate / Advisory Apprentice (Braemar Shipbroking Ltd)

BRAEMAR ACM SHIPBROKING LIMITED

London (WC2N 5HR)

Closes in 7 days (Friday 20 February 2026)

Posted on 9 February 2026

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Summary

This apprenticeship role sits within Braemar’s Group Compliance team and provides hands-on exposure to both regulated and non-regulated areas of the business, including financial services, commodities and physical shipbroking.

Wage

£30,000 a year

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Training course
Compliance and risk officer (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 9 March 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

You will support day-to-day compliance activity across the Group, with a strong focus on financial crime, sanctions and conduct risk, while completing a recognised compliance apprenticeship over 15 months. The role offers a broad introduction to how compliance operates in a complex, global maritime and financial organisation.

This role is open to all, whether you are changing careers or about to leave school, this will be the perfect role for a self-starter who wants to get stuck in.

Full Description:

What You’ll Do

  • Support compliance activities across regulated financial businesses and shipbroking.
  • Assist with financial crime compliance, including KYC, AML, sanctions screening and adverse media checks.
  • Help identify and escalate compliance, sanctions and reputational risks.
  • Maintain accurate records to support audits, regulatory reviews and internal governance.
  • Assist with compliance reporting and data analysis.
  • Work closely with front-office, shipbroking and support teams to promote a strong compliance culture.
  • Complete apprenticeship training and continuously develop technical and professional skills.

What You’ll Learn

  • Regulatory frameworks and best-practice governance standards.
  • Financial crime and sanctions risk, including shipbroking-specific typologies.
  • How regulated and non-regulated businesses apply proportionate, risk-based compliance controls.
  • Use of compliance systems, data tools and reporting techniques.
  • Professional standards, ethics and effective stakeholder communication.

Where you'll work

1 Strand
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5HR

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Training course

Compliance and risk officer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Implement legal and regulatory framework requirements.
  • Deliver risk and compliance services to stakeholders using organisational systems and processes.
  • Plan and organise workloads to meet individual and team performance targets.
  • Identify ways to reduce and mitigate incidents of non-compliance.
  • Escalate compliance and risk issues where appropriate in line with organisational procedures.
  • Manage records in order to meet audit requirements of the organisation.
  • Produce evidence-based reports and management information for stakeholders considering visualisation techniques when presenting data.
  • Select and use communication methods applicable to the audience and circumstances, for example, presentations, phone, face to face, email, virtual meetings.
  • Communicate about products with customers, colleagues or stakeholders in different styles, for example visually, verbally, written, using e-comms.
  • Build and maintain working relationships.
  • Identify own training needs and seek feedback to improve performance and service delivered.
  • Apply continuous improvement techniques when delivering improved compliance outcomes and mitigating risks.
  • Record information electronically and make use of available technology, for example Management Information Systems (MIS), spreadsheets, presentation software, word processing, email, virtual communication.
  • Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.
  • Implement legal and regulatory framework requirements.
  • Deliver risk and compliance services to stakeholders using organisational systems and processes.
  • Plan and organise workloads to meet individual and team performance targets.
  • Identify ways to reduce and mitigate incidents of non-compliance.
  • Escalate compliance and risk issues where appropriate in line with organisational procedures.
  • Manage records in order to meet audit requirements of the organisation.
  • Produce evidence-based reports and management information for stakeholders considering visualisation techniques when presenting data.
  • Select and use communication methods applicable to the audience and circumstances, for example, presentations, phone, face to face, email, virtual meetings.
  • Communicate about products with customers, colleagues or stakeholders in different styles, for example visually, verbally, written, using e-comms.
  • Build and maintain working relationships.
  • Identify own training needs and seek feedback to improve performance and service delivered.
  • Apply continuous improvement techniques when delivering improved compliance outcomes and mitigating risks.
  • Record information electronically and make use of available technology, for example Management Information Systems (MIS), spreadsheets, presentation software, word processing, email, virtual communication.
  • Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

5 GCSE's including English Language and Maths (grade (A*-C/9-4 or equivalent))

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Organisation skills
  • Detail-focused
  • Confident with data & systems
  • Clear written
  • Verbal communication skills
  • Professional
  • Ethical and reliable approach
  • Willingness to learn
  • Adapt and develop

About this employer

Braemar is one of the worlds largest shipbroker and provider of expert advice in shipping investment, chartering, marine & energy industries, and risk management with offices in the UK, Geneva, Athens, USA, Australia , China, UAE, Singapore and India.

Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Fixed term, dependant length of contract.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000012071.

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Closes in 7 days (Friday 20 February 2026)

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