• Assisting the Financial Crime Analysts with their duties, which may include undertaking those duties in time of absence or high workloads. These duties include:
• Conducting KYB and KYC checks on WK’s customers
• Reviewing customer alerts and completing ongoing monitoring reviews for customers.
• Transaction monitoring
• Conducting Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews and where necessary liaising with Tenants for additional information and documentation.
• Drafting internal SARs for escalation to the 2nd line function
• Managing the team workloads
• Having and documenting regular 121’s with any direct reports
• Approving holidays and other absences for any direct reports, in-line with HR policies
• Conducting performance reviews for any direct reports in line with HR policies.
• Providing ongoing training and coaching to any direct reports.

• Creating, documenting, and maintaining team processes in line with the Financial Crime Policies created by members of the 2nd line oversight team.
• Ensuring these processes are embedded in the department, and where necessary other areas of the business.
• Monitoring the Financial Crime Operations Team, to ensure that the firm's policies and processes are complied with.
• Updating the Financial Crime Processes where required by the firm’s 2nd line oversight teams, the Executive Committee (COB), the Board or Internal Audit.

• Conducting fraud investigations
• Liaising with our intermediary clients on any financial crime operations matters to both answer queries and ensure our expectations are understood.
• Creating or inputting towards the firm’s financial crime reports, including assisting with the annual MLRO report.
• Providing updates on the team’s performance in relation to financial crime matters, to relevant senior managers, committees, and the board, via both written and verbal means where necessary depending on the forum. This may include the creation of formal reports.

• Supporting the team in responding to queries from the business related to financial crime
• Ensuring adequate record keeping of all matters relating to the firm's financial crime operations.
• Assisting other areas of the business with ad-hoc tasks and projects where necessary.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of the FCA rules, regulations, and legislations relating to financial crime.
• Experience working in the Financial Services Sector
• Experience in and strong understanding of AML/CTF governance and regulatory control frameworks and best practices
• Good knowledge of risk indicators in relation to various money laundering and terrorist financing typologies
• Strong attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a digital environment
• Comfortable working in a remotely based company
• The ability to adapt quickly to changing situations
• Ability to manage workloads well, without supervision
• As well as an ability to work unsupervised, the ideal candidate should also work well in a diverse and collaborative team environment.

• Experience with payment service provides and international payments
• Experience in risk management
• Managerial experience
• Experience in the fintech and/or start-up spaceDiploma level qualification in AML

Benefits

• We believe in transparency and empowering people.
• We want you to challenge us and also to accept being challenged.
• We want you to learn from your mistakes. We want you to propose and try new things.
• We believe in results. We don’t micromanage. We trust you.
• You will have the opportunity to grow and develop your skills in new areas while working in an open, creative, and collaborative environment.
• You will work hands-on with experienced professionals who will always be one click away from you if you need their help.

• Working in a multicultural environment
• A positive and collaborative working culture
• Competitive pay package
• 22 days of holidays (plus bank holidays)
• Remotely based position (forever!)
• Company team retreats
• If you have the confidence, energy, and passion to take on this exciting role, please get in touch!