Financial Crime Specialist - Regulated Client Onboarding (Remote)

Job Description

About Currencycloud
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.
We are an open & collaborative Fintech unicorn that lives and breathes our company values: Be Human, Better Together and Own it.
About the role...
We’re looking for a talented and experienced Financial Crime Analyst to join our New Business Onboarding team. We are looking for someone who had previously dealt with the onboarding of a variety of regulated clients such as Payment Institutions and other Financial Institutions and able to assess the effectiveness of each clients AML framework.

The details...

• Responsible for the onboarding of Financial Institutions, Payment Institutions and Corporates in a myriad of industries and jurisdictions.
• Undertaking reviews of global clients’ procedures to ensure alignment with Currencycloud specific risk appetite, and ensure they have sufficient controls to mitigate financial crime risk.
• Accountable for leading client onboarding calls to assess the effectiveness of their money laundering controls and to evaluate whether they are in line with Currencycloud’s risk appetite.
• Responsible for undertaking enhanced due diligence on customers that pose greater risks, including investigating the legitimacy of the funds used in the business relationship.
• Proactively escalating urgent cases to the MLRO/DMLRO for further review.
• Complete Compliance administration (such as keeping client records up to date).Participate in regular reviews of departmental procedures and identify potential areas for improvement.
• Work cross-departmentally to proactively identify and resolve any queries and complaints.
• 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.

Experience...

• Has Regulated Client-onboarding experience
• Has a strong understanding of AML regulations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fast thinker and quick learner with the ability to work effectively under pressure, in a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent team working skills, capable of managing own workload and has tenacious attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise work by taking the impact and scale of the work into consideration, as well as manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
• Able to analyse information to formulate questions and recommendations.

What does success look like?

• Clients onboarded within set deadlines.
• Responses provided to all queries from stakeholders.
• Undertake tasks within SLA.
• All duties carried out in the role are delivered to a high standard.
• All processes and policies remain current, in line with any regulatory changes.

Why Currencycloud?
We are a remote-first company; whichever location you’re contracted to, we leave it up to you and your manager to agree on how often you come into the office. To make things easier we offer an allowance so you can create your own working space at home because we REALLY mean it when we say remote first.
Your health and well-being are of paramount importance to us, and so our jampacked employee benefits reflect this!
We offer a competitive salary, bonus (for permanent employees), a pension or 401K contribution, a flexible benefit allowance, comprehensive learning and development resources and comprehensive health care that includes annual optical and dental allowances and access to mental health support!
At the moment we are unable to consider applicants living outside of our entities and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
We aren’t currently looking for additional Recruiter support on this role and won’t be accepting any unsolicited CVs