Griffin

Assurance Associate

Griffin

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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About the role

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial crime complianceauditassurance reviewscontrol frameworksreport writingrecommendationsAMLsanctionsKYCtransaction monitoring
Soft Skills
relationship managementcommunicationorganisational skillsanalytical mindsetproblem-solvingwriting clarityreadabilitystakeholder engagementtrust-buildingownership