Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager (Group)
About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 50+ million customers get more from their money every day.
As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.
About the role
Compliance is a key team that ensures Revolut’s products and processes meet the regulatory requirements and translate this into the best customer outcomes. They’ve got an outstanding ability to find solutions and carry out testing in a purely digital environment. Those data-driven experts know that better people and machines are the most effective way of managing conduct risk.
We’re looking for a Group FinCrime Compliance Assurance Manager who’ll join us to improve all aspects of financial crime and risk management.
Up to shape the future of finance? Let's get in touch.
What you’ll be doing
- Assisting with the design and implementation of the Compliance Testing and Assurance Programme
- Completing assurance reviews and testing activities, leveraging skills in advanced data analytics
- Establishing automated queries and dashboards to drive more frequent testing and informative insights
- Contributing to compliance processes by identifying opportunities for improved adherence to regulatory requirements and company standards
- Executing project plans to address remediation efforts and testing review findings, which may include process updates, documentation, and/or training
- Driving execution of concurrent local or multi-jurisdictional reviews, including subsequent management reporting related to review outcomes and findings
- Challenging colleagues to build efficient, world-class risk management controls and processes
- Using data analytics to identify actionable insights, resulting in material enhancements to the control environment
What you'll need
- 3+ years of experience in a fintech company, traditional financial institution, or regulatory body
- Relevant experience in assurance or internal/external audit, focusing on risk and compliance domains
- Familiarity with assurance/audit reviews
- Experience in controls, risk, and policy and procedure testing
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to hold the 1st Line of Defence accountable for regulatory compliance matters
- Experience interrogating large data sets to identify actionable insights
- A results-driven, pragmatic, and detailed-oriented approach
- A love for problem-solving and working collaboratively
- The ability to explain complex things very easily
- A willingness to learn and an interest in compliance
- Experience creating or utilising test scripts/procedures
- Relevant compliance qualifications, such as ACAMS, ACOI, or ICA
- Experience working on regulatory compliance or financial crime risks
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- Knowledge of payment screening, sanction, and PEP regulations
- Experience in inbound and outbound real-time fraud detection
- Experience in rule-based or model-based AML transaction monitoring, threshold tuning, and below-the-line testing
- Experience identifying and preventing onboarding risks for retail (KYC) and business (KYB) customers
- Experience in risk assessments or review of FCA regulations and EU AML directives
- Experience with regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and external enquiries
- Experience detecting and investigating internal fraud
- Experience designing and implementing or testing customer risk scoring and customer segmentation
- Data analytics skills, including SQL and/or Python
- Experience in insurance, crypto, and/or stock trading compliance
Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.
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Benefits at Revolut
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Get what you need to succeed
- Financial benefits that show we value your work
- Flexibility to work from home, the office or abroad
- A free Revolut Metal subscription loaded with perks
- Exciting events year-round so you can get to know your team
Discover our values
We believe that any success at Revolut comes from two things: our people and our culture. Our culture is our DNA, it defines who we are, how we operate, and how we handle disagreements with each other. We operate, hire, develop, and promote brilliant people based on the values below.
Get It Done
Revoluters always push through! We stopped listening to excuses a long time ago - we care about results. We believe that grit, determination, skill, smartness, and courage can break through almost any wall.
Deliver WOW
We love building great products, we love delighting our customers, we love turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution that truly solves customer needs.
Dream Team
We select, coach, and retain the top talent only and give them all the support to achieve greatness
Never Settle
Revolut is for those who always strive for excellence, for those who want to become the best in the world at what they do, for those who would never settle for less. Revolut is for 10x people.
Think Deeper
Logic, reason, and common sense prevail over everything else in decision making at Revolut. We are open-minded, we listen, and we are always in search of the truth.