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 70+ 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 13,000+ 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 blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to manage conduct risk.

We’re looking for a Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager who’ll help us improve our fraud and AML risk management processes to keep customers and the business safe.

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What you'll be doing

• Designing and implementing the compliance testing and assurance programme, including risk-based control assessments
• Completing assurance reviews and testing activities, leveraging advanced data analytics to identify control gaps
• Establishing automated queries and dashboards to enable more frequent testing and actionable insights
• Contributing to compliance processes by identifying opportunities to strengthen adherence to regulatory requirements and company standards
• Executing remediation plans and follow-ups, including process updates, documentation, and training
• Driving multiple concurrent reviews, local or multi-jurisdictional, with subsequent management reporting on outcomes
• Challenging colleagues to enhance risk management controls and build efficient processes
• Using data analytics to generate insights that materially improve the control environment

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience working in a fintech, traditional financial institution, or regulatory body
• A background in assurance or internal/external audit, focusing on AML/CFT and fraud
• Experience testing controls, risk frameworks, and policies/procedures
• Expertise in analysing large data sets to extract actionable insights
• A results-driven, pragmatic, and highly detail-oriented approach
• An interest in compliance with a willingness to deepen financial crime knowledge
• Experience developing or applying test scripts and compliance procedures
• A solid understanding of financial crime risks, including AML/CFT and fraud
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience in payment screening, regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and responding to external enquiries
• Relevant financial crime and compliance qualifications, such as ACAMS or ICA
• Knowledge of sanctions and PEP regulations within financial services
• Expertise in rule-based or model-based AML transaction monitoring, including threshold tuning and below-the-line testing
• Experience identifying and mitigating onboarding risks for retail (KYC) and business (KYB) customers
• Exposure to risk assessments and review of FCA regulations or EU AML directives
• Experience designing, implementing, or testing customer risk scoring and segmentation frameworks
• 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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