Fincrime Assurance Associate

Griffin

Fincrime Assurance Associate managing financial crime obligations for customers at a regulated UK bank. Running assurance reviews and engaging with external stakeholders to ensure compliance.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The assurance review schedule as the DC book grows, keeping risk ratings accurate and ensuring each customer receives the right level of scrutiny.
The review and closing out post-live conditions for newly onboarded DCs where applicable.
Issuing assurance review requests, including scoping the right questions and sample requests based on entity type, operating model, and risk rating.
In-depth reviews of DC responses, identifying gaps and weaknesses in their financial crime controls.
The production of formal review reports with clear findings and a recommendation on whether a DC's risk rating should be maintained, increased, or decreased.
Drafting and issuing recommendations to DCs, then tracking and following up until full closure is confirmed.
The engagement with external stakeholders, including CEOs, MLROs, Compliance Managers, especially when sharing difficult findings or recommendations.

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 writingAMLsanctionsKYCtransaction monitoringSARs

Soft Skills

organizational skillsanalytical mindsetcommunicationrelationship managementproblem-solvingattention to detailclarity in writingstakeholder engagementconfidence in conversationstracking and follow-up