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Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

Revolut - Lisbon, Portugal - In-office

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Revolut is a fintech company on a mission to give people more from their money through a suite of products including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travel services. With 80+ million customers and 13,000+ employees globally, Revolut is scaling rapidly and seeking a Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager to strengthen its compliance and risk management capabilities. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of compliance testing and assurance programs, with a focus on financial crime risk management. You'll conduct risk-based compliance assessments and control testing across the organization, leveraging advanced data analytics to identify actionable insights. Key responsibilities include: - Designing and implementing compliance testing frameworks, including risk-based assessment methodologies - Executing assurance reviews and testing activities using data analytics to uncover control gaps - Building automated queries and dashboards to enable more frequent and insightful testing - Identifying opportunities to strengthen regulatory adherence and internal standards - Managing remediation projects to address testing findings, including process updates and training - Driving concurrent multi-jurisdictional compliance reviews and producing management reporting - Challenging internal stakeholders to build efficient, world-class risk controls - Using data analytics to surface material enhancements to the control environment You'll work within Revolut's Compliance team, which combines regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to ensure products meet legal requirements while delivering customer value. The role requires balancing speed with rigor in a fast-moving digital environment. REQUIREMENTS: - 3+ years of experience in fintech, traditional financial institutions, or regulatory bodies - Proven experience in assurance, internal audit, or external audit with focus on risk and compliance - Hands-on experience in controls testing, risk assessment, and policy/procedure testing - Strong stakeholder engagement skills to hold first-line-of-defense accountable for compliance - Ability to interrogate large datasets and extract actionable insights - Results-driven, pragmatic, detail-oriented mindset - Genuine interest in compliance with willingness to deepen expertise - Experience creating or using test scripts and procedures - Relevant financial crime and compliance qualifications (ACAMS, ICA, or equivalent) - Demonstrated experience working on financial crime risks - Fluency in English NICE-TO-HAVE: - Experience with payment screening, regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and external enquiries - Knowledge of sanctions and PEP regulations - Expertise in rule-based or model-based AML transaction monitoring and threshold tuning - Experience identifying and preventing onboarding risks (KYC/KYB) - Familiarity with FCA regulations and EU AML directives - Experience designing or testing customer risk scoring and segmentation - Data analytics skills including SQL and/or Python

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