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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