Group Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

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 45+ 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

Our Compliance team is a true gem. They make sure our products and processes meet all the requirements. What does this mean? The best possible outcomes for our customers. They’ve got an outstanding ability to find solutions and carry out testing in a truly digital and fast-paced environment. Those data-driven experts know that better people and improved machines are the most effective way to manage conduct risk.

We’re looking for a Compliance Assurance Manager who’ll join us and help us improve all aspects of finance and risk management.

If you love saying “this is textbook!” — and love hearing others say it — let’s get in touch 🚀

What you’ll be doing

• Assisting with the design and implementation of the compliance testing and assurance programme, including the risk-based compliance assessment, control testing, and assurance plan
• 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, including process updates, documentation, and/or training
• Driving execution of multiple concurrent reviews, which may be local or multi-jurisdictional, 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, which result in material enhancements to the control environment

What you'll need

• 3+ years of experience working within a fintech, 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
• To be results-driven, pragmatic, and have a detailed-oriented approach
• An interest in compliance and willingness to deepend your knowledge
• Experience creating or utilising test scripts/procedures
• Relevant financial crime and compliance qualifications, such as ACAMS and ICA
• Experience working on financial crime risks
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience in payment screening, regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and external enquiries
• Knowledge of sanction and PEP regulations
• Expertise 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 in designing, implementating, or testing customer risk scoring and segmentation
• Data analytics skills, including SQL and/or Python

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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