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Currencycloud • Cardiff / Remote

Compliance Analyst

Employment type:  Full time
Salary:  Competitive Salary

Fully-remote

Job Description

Ready to shape tomorrow?

Currencycloud is somewhere where innovative thinking and the power of technology know no limits. We know that the success of the business depends on the people who keep it moving, which is why we are looking for exceptional talent to join our international payments revolution.

About the role...

Our Compliance department is looking for a talented Compliance Analyst to join the team in Cardiff to oversee all aspects of regulatory and legal compliance applicable to the company.

This will include but is not limited to:

  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
  • Economic / financial sanctions
  • Payment Services / E-money Directive

The role of the Compliance Analyst will be to ensure that an appropriate and comprehensive compliance framework has been both developed and implemented in these and other areas. This role will act as our specialist compliance adviser to the business.

This role is shift based and will require the candidate to commit to 09:00 - 17.30 and 14.00 - 22.30 shifts on a weekly rotation basis.

The details...

  • Conduct sanction/PEP screening and investigate potential hits.
  • Conduct a review of clients' applications at the point of onboarding.
  • Carry out enhanced customer due diligence (ECDD) and know-your-customer (KYC) on new clients.
  • Conduct monitoring of existing applications to ensure that documentation is up to date.
  • Support data-protection compliance.
  • Complete Compliance administration (record training, keeping client records up-to-date) as required.
  • Analyse payment and compliance data to identify trends and patterns.
  • Review effectiveness of current monitoring rules and settings and provide feedback on ways to optimise.
  • Continuously review current processes and suggest improvements to the process as well as systems used.
  • Work cross-departmental to proactively identify and resolve operational compliance queries.
  • Undertake assigned Compliance project work.
  • Identification and reporting of suspicious activity to relevant global financial intelligence units.
  • Proactively escalate urgent cases to the MLRO/DMLRO for further review.
  • Keep up-to-date with current and future regulatory changes that affect the business and use this knowledge to proactively suggest improvements to compliance policies and procedures.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

  • Understanding of sanctions, their purpose and the process to investigate and report sanctions.
  • Excellent analytical skills and ability to work in a methodical manner.
  • Ability to work independently on projects as required and communicate results effectively throughout the company.
  • Good knowledge of excel, SQL and data visualisation tools is a bonus.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines.
  • Excellent team working skills, ability to manage own workload with tenacious attention to detail till completion.
  • High level of attention to detail.
  • Have an interest in having a career in Compliance within the payments, financial services, technology or FX industry.
  • Be articulate, numerate, organised, hardworking and able to build excellent relationships.

Your benefits...

At the moment we are transitioning from an office based working environment to a remote first company, so we have adapted our already great benefits package to reflect this.

We now offer a day off each month for your mental health on top of the 25 days annual leave allowance and a day off for your birthday. Our comprehensive health care includes mental health support service access and we have live streamed health based activities like Yoga and Barre classes each week! We also run fortnightly company updates hosted by our CEO to keep employees up to date on developments and also include an open forum for employees to ask questions.

If you think your skills and experience match what we are looking for and you’d like to join a Fintech industry unicorn, please get in touch!

About Currencycloud

Currencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use our API building blocks to build customised payment solutions. Whether you want to embed our payments infrastructure into your products or services, or build on top of it, we’ll fit into your business in a way that works for you.

We take care of all the intricacies and regulatory hurdles involved with cross-border payments, giving you the tools to globalise your business.

Our cloud-based platform removes that complexity from international transactions, giving you clarity and control over your business so you can focus on the things that matter: your customers. With enterprise-class solutions for clients and partners such as Visa and Starling Bank, Currencycloud understands your needs and can help with market-leading products.

Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Comprehensive wellness program
Life assurance
Permanent health insurance (income protection)
Mental health day
A day off for your birthday

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Currencycloud provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Currencycloud is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Currencycloud

Company employees

430+

Gender diversity (male:female)

69:31

Office locations

London, Cardiff, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore

Funding levels

$160.2m

Hiring Countries

Australia
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
Singapore
Spain
United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2022