Assurance Associate

Griffin

Assurance Associate managing financial crime obligations for a remote-first UK bank. Engage with stakeholders and oversee assurance reviews as part of a dynamic team.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You'll report directly to our Financial Crime Oversight Manager as part of a small team focused on keeping our oversight function rigorous, proportionate, and trusted.
You'll be running your own caseload: scoping reviews, conducting them, and producing findings reports that directly inform risk decisions.
You'll engage with a wide range of external stakeholders and have the opportunity to shape how the function develops, including getting involved in projects such as automation.
In your first 6 months, you'll have taken ownership of your review caseload, with reports consistently produced to a high standard and recommendations tracked through to closure.
The assurance schedule will be on track — no bottlenecks, no overdue reviews. By 12 months, you'll have built genuine, trusted relationships with DCs and internal stakeholders, becoming a credible point of contact that people feel comfortable raising issues with.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience working in financial crime compliance — ideally in an audit, assurance, oversight, or monitoring capacity, with hands-on review experience rather than purely advisory or policy work.
Hands-on experience conducting financial crime audit or assurance reviews or assessments, including reviewing control frameworks and identifying gaps.
Experience with writing reports and recommendations on the back of audit or assurance reviews.
A solid understanding of financial crime controls: AML, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring, SARs, QA/QC and end-to-end onboarding and ongoing customer journeys.
Confidence managing external relationships and having direct, sometimes difficult conversations with customers.
Strong organisational skills and an analytical mindset — you'll be juggling reviews at different stages and spotting issues that aren't always obvious.
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

Comp & perks

Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK
Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year
Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year)
Share options: Own a part of what we’re building together
Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme
Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG
Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva
Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service
AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools
Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial crime complianceauditassurance reviewscontrol frameworksreport writingrecommendationsAMLsanctionsKYCtransaction monitoring

Soft Skills

relationship managementcommunicationorganisational skillsanalytical mindsetproblem-solvingwriting clarityreadabilitystakeholder engagementtrust-buildingownership