About This Role
Financial Crime Compliance Leads manage oversight and compliance by quickly identifying financial crime risks and maintaining systems and controls. This role involves joining the second line of defense within a fast-moving, digital environment, ensuring products meet legal and policy requirements.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and update group FinCrime policies, including defining the group minimum standard for FinCrime processes across the organization
- Oversee quarterly performance of entity MLROs and compliance managers
- Provide oversight and support to the identification, remediation, and resolution of FinCrime-related risk incidents
- Assist senior management in defining standards to manage financial crime risks, ensuring that these standards are applied across the organization
- Offer 2LoD support to the business, 1LoD FinCrime teams, and entity MLRO teams with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems
- Ensure FinCrime risks are considered in day-to-day operations
- Participate in FinCrime-related governance committees to check-and-challenge initiative owners, identify potential issues, and propose solutions
- Establish, maintain, and review dashboards to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigation
- Prepare reports for senior management, group committees, and the Board, escalating any key or high-risk financial crime compliance issues
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in FinCrime (AML/CTF and sanctions), covering retail and business customers, such as KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, SARs, etc.
- Good understanding of both innovative financial services products and their associated financial crime risks
- Knowledge of anti-financial crime frameworks, regulatory recommendations, risk management good practice, and control arrangements in a complex financial organization
- Excellent knowledge of global requirements for financial crime controls
- Solid understanding of industry-wide financial crime practices and trends
- Expertise in identifying financial crime risks and potential vulnerabilities, and advising on best practices to address those findings
- Track record of stakeholder management and the ability to collaborate, negotiate, and communicate effectively
- Fluency in English
Nice to have:
- Professional qualification from an internationally recognized body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)
- Experience in crypto, wealth and trading, and/or correspondent banking
- Familiarity with key regulatory issues on anti-fraud and control assessment processes
About the Company
Revolut has been on a mission to provide more visibility, control, and freedom with money since 2015, serving over 80 million customers with products including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travel. The company employs over 13,000 people globally and has been certified as a Great Place to Work™.
