Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

About the Role

Our Financial Crime 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 prevent financial crime.

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

What You’ll Be Doing

• Assisting with the design and implementation of the compliance testing and assurance programme, including risk‑based compliance assessment and control testing
• 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 on financial crime risks within a fintech, traditional financial institution, or regulatory body
• Relevant experience in assurance and internal/external audit, focusing on risk and compliance domains
• Experience in controls, risk, and policy and procedure testing
• Knowledge of French FinCrime regulations
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to hold the 1LoD 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 deepen your knowledge
• Experience creating or utilising test scripts/procedures
• Relevant financial crime and compliance qualifications, such as ACAMS and ICA
• Fluency in English

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with 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
• Knowledge of risk assessments or review of FCA regulations and EU AML directives
• Expertise in designing, implementing, or testing customer risk scoring and segmentation
• Solid data analytics skills, including SQL and/or Python