A day in the life:
- Developing and maintaining Zopa’s AML/CFT and Sanctions policies and standards, ensuring that appropriate measures are in place so that money laundering, terrorist financing and sanction evasion risks are considered in the company's day-to-day operations.
- Carrying out assurance activities – these could be testing key financial crime controls, carrying out MI validation, customer journey reviews, policy reviews or large, thematic reviews into key areas of the financial crime control framework
- Conducting risk assessments for new and existing products as well as contributing to the annual bank wide risk assessment
- Reviewing methodology documents and proposals from the 1st line of defence and question these proposals where necessary
- Drafting and providing ongoing maintenance of robust policies and procedures to reflect regulatory developments and best practices
- Preparing documentation whether it’s for monthly risk committee meetings, policy and standards updates or information for the regulators
- Ensuring that controls scale with all Zopa’s products by developing effective ongoing review and monitoring processes
- Reviewing and analysing MI from across the suite of controls to identify any areas of concern for further investigation
- Working closely with first line of defence risk team in the development of new controls or improving existing ones across current accounts.
About you:
- Demonstratable experience in AML/CTF risk management within the financial services sector, preferably within ahigh-growth fintech, digital bank or EMI.
- Hands-on team player, with experience within a 1st or 2nd line risk function
- In-depth understanding of UK anti-money laundering, countering terrorist financing and sanctions regulations, including the Money Laundering Regulations, the Proceeds of Crime Act and FCA expectations
- Clear communicator with ability to explain complicated concepts in simple terms to a wide audience (both verbally and in writing) and can challenge and influence stakeholders of varying seniority
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, you’re a proactive self-starter and are comfortable with a degree of ambiguity and change
- You can work autonomously and take ownership - you have project management, organisational skills and capability to handle multiple projects at one time
- Critical thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach to problem-solving
- Strong analytical and risk assessment skills, with the ability to adapt to new challenges
- Data driven - ability to analyse data to draw insightful conclusions to drive identify practical risk mitigations
- Impeccable report writing skills, with the ability to adapt language and complexity depending on target audience
- High level of integrity, sound judgment and attention to detail
Bonus points for:
- Experience working with product teams, suppliers or regulators
- Knowledge of SQL would be a bonus!
- Exposure to retail current accounts (either personal or business)
- Financial crime qualification(s) – ICA or similar
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