Graduate KYC Analyst, German-speaking
Projective Group
Financial Crime Risk Manager
Griffin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Conduct comprehensive financial crime risk assessments across BaaS customer segments (fintechs, remittance firms, proptech, non-bank lenders) and product lines (embedded accounts, safeguarding, savings, client money). Identifying emerging financial crime risks and typologies relevant to BaaS business models
- Maintain and update the Business-Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (BWRA), ensuring it reflects the evolving risk landscape
- Provide independent challenge to First Line risk assessments, control self-assessments and business decisions
- Assess the adequacy and effectiveness of financial crime controls across the organisation by conducting thematic reviews and testing transaction monitoring scenarios, sanctions screening, and customer due diligence processes
- Provide real-time risk advice on new products, partnerships, and business initiatives
- Deliver training and guidance to First Line teams on financial crime risks and controls
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years financial crime experience, with at least 2 years in a Second Line role
- Strong understanding of UK financial crime regulations (MLR 2017, POCA, Proceeds of Crime Act, Terrorism Act, Sanctions regimes)
- Proven track record of conducting risk assessments and control testing
- Demonstrated experience in banking, payments, or fintech environments
- A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
- A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability
Benefits
- 25 days off a year + winter break(we close in between Christmas and New Year) + bank holidays
- Remote-first flexibility - work from anywhere in the UK
- WFA - Everyone gets up to 20 ‘work from abroad’ days a year
- Support with home office setup
- Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
- 1:1 coaching and therapy through Oliva
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme with Penfold
- Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months at full pay
- Private medical insurance and life insurance (provided by Vitality and AIG respectively)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
financial crime risk assessmentsrisk assessmentscontrol testingtransaction monitoringsanctions screeningcustomer due diligencethematic reviewsfinancial crime controlsBaaS business modelsfinancial crime regulations
Soft skills
independent challengereal-time risk advicetraining and guidanceclarity and readabilitycommunication
