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Revolut is a global fintech company on a mission to give people more from their money through spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travel products. With 80+ million customers and 13,000+ employees worldwide, the company is experiencing rapid growth.
The Financial Crime Compliance Lead will join the second line of defence within Revolut's Financial Crime team, which combines regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to prevent financial crime and ensure compliance with legal and policy requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and update group FinCrime policies, defining minimum standards for FinCrime processes across the organisation
- Oversee quarterly performance of entity MLROs (Money Laundering Reporting Officers) and compliance managers
- Provide oversight and support for identification, remediation, and resolution of FinCrime-related risk incidents
- Assist senior management in defining standards to manage financial crime risks and ensure organisation-wide application
- Offer second line of defence support to business teams, first line FinCrime teams, and entity MLRO teams during product launches and process/system implementations
- Ensure FinCrime risks are integrated into day-to-day operations
- Participate in FinCrime governance committees to challenge initiatives, identify issues, and propose solutions
- Establish, maintain, and review dashboards to identify areas outside risk appetite requiring investigation
- Prepare reports for senior management, group committees, and the Board, escalating key or high-risk compliance issues
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in FinCrime (AML/CTF and sanctions) covering retail and business customers, including KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, and SARs
- Strong understanding of innovative financial services products and their associated financial crime risks
- Knowledge of anti-financial crime frameworks, regulatory recommendations, risk management best practices, and control arrangements in complex financial organisations
- Excellent knowledge of global requirements for financial crime controls
- Solid understanding of industry-wide financial crime practices and trends
- Expertise in identifying financial crime risks and vulnerabilities, and advising on best practices
- Strong track record of stakeholder management with excellent collaboration, negotiation, and communication skills
- Fluency in English
Nice to Have:
- Professional qualification from internationally recognised body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)
- Experience in crypto, wealth and trading, and/or correspondent banking
- Familiarity with anti-fraud and control assessment processes
