FinCrime Investigations Manager - Revolut

Closing date: Does not specify


About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, more freedom. And since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. With an arsenal of awesome products that span spending, saving, travel, transfers, investing, exchanging and more, our super app has helped 20+ million customers get more from their money. And we're not done yet.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, we believe that two things are essential to continuing our success: our people and our culture. So far, we have 5000+ people working around the world, from our great offices or remotely, on our mission. And we're looking for more. We want brilliant people that love building great products, love redefining success, and love 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 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 Financial Crime Investigations Manager for a newly established Complex Investigations Unit. This role will be responsible for intelligence development, investigation, reporting and internal and external liaison in relation to fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes. 🏋️‍♂️

Up for the challenge? Let’s get in touch 👇

What you’ll be doing

  • Conducting and support proactive intelligence-led financial crime investigations and exposure assessments in line with the team’s priorities

  • Conducting and support reactive investigations into a broad range of financial crime-related activities that can be referred to the team internally or by external parties

  • Identifying and propose investigative hypotheses to be considered and make a list of facts and arguments for and against each hypothesis

  • Collating, analysing and visualising both structured and unstructured data from various sources with a view to discovering key information and converting it into actionable intelligence

  • Managing multiple investigations and prioritise work accordingly

  • Advising the relevant teams on risks which are identified or apparent from the investigations

  • Identifying potential gaps in Revolut’s systems and controls and propose enhancements

  • Assessing SAR filing obligations and prepare SARs and other intelligence reports for review

  • Assisting with information and intelligence sharing to internal stakeholders and external partners and encourage closer working relationships between the relevant parties

  • Performing ad-hoc investigative tasks assigned by the senior management

  • Working closely with the senior members of the team and regional MLROs to build best in class investigation team

What you'll need

  • 2-5 years of experience in undertaking and/or leading financial crime investigations, preferably in a large financial institution and a government or a law enforcement agency

  • Experience in and strong understanding of AML/CTF governance and regulatory control frameworks and best practices

  • Strong understanding of proactive Financial Crime Risk Management to enhance products/services and reduce risk

  • Good knowledge of risk indicators in relation to various money laundering and terrorist financing typologies

  • Ability to work multiple cases, work independently and meet strict deadlines

  • Uphold the values and goals of Revolut by completing high quality and timely investigations

  • Strong analytical, critical thinking and decision-making skills

  • To be highly organised and structured

  • Excellent report writing skills

  • Excellent stakeholder management skills

  • High degree of fluency and written communication skills in English

  • Advanced knowledge of Sheets and Slides within Google Suite

Nice to have

  • Good understanding of programming languages such as SQL

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