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Senior Manager, Financial Crime - EU Expansion

Monzo Bank
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9 months ago
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️ Our Financial Crime team

You should know that we fight Financial Crime a little differently at Monzo. You’ll work in a team with dedicated Financial Crime engineers, data scientists and machine learning experts, which helps us to spot, assess and prevent crime quickly. We choose not to split out different areas of crime, either. Instead we tackle all Financial Crime together as one team. That includes AML, fraud, sanctions breaches, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption and tax evasion.

What we’re looking for:

A Financial Crime Senior Manager who can support our international expansionYou’ll play a critical role in identifying new regulatory and Financial Crime risk requirements as we expand into new jurisdictions, and work closely with Product, Risk and Tech teams to implement solutions to effectively and efficiently manage risks.

  • Regulatory Engagement: Assist with understanding Financial Crime and Fraud regulatory requirements within new jurisdictions, developing approaches to meet these requirements, and engaging with regulators.
  • Strategic Oversight: Ensure coordination of international expansion plans across Financial Crime teams.
  • Data-Driven Insight and Storytelling: Use data to create compelling presentations and reports that support Financial Crime prioritisation.
  • Strategic Doer: Combine hands-on execution with strategic thinking to align cross-functional teams with our Financial Crime vision and strategy.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operational and Change teams across Monzo jurisdictions to coordinate key initiatives, ensuring alignment across teams.
  • Leadership: Build and develop an inclusive and high-performing team to support Monzo’s objectives.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Formulating and executing strategic projects aligned with Monzo’s EU expansion.
  • Defining Financial Crime and Fraud requirements for expansion to new jurisdictions and working with Product, Risk and Technical teams to define solutions and deliver these.
  • Owning Financial Crime and Fraud performance data and driving regular reporting to key forums and committees attended by Monzo Senior Leadership.
  • Collaborating across the company to remove roadblocks and solve complex challenges relating to Monzo’s EU expansion.
  • Preparing the Financial Crime Leadership Team for meetings with key stakeholders (e.g. regulators, suppliers, law enforcement).
  • Representing the Financial Crime Senior Director in the organisation and at key forums/committees.

We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You have a depth of expertise in Financial Crime risks and regulatory requirements within financial services across EU jurisdictions.
  • You have worked closely with Product and Technical teams in defining requirements and developing solutions to complex problems.
  • You have a track record of driving outcomes by building consensus and influence.
  • You are passionate about Financial Crime and protecting Monzo and our customers.
  • You have strong analytical skills and are comfortable with tools like spreadsheets, BigQuery and Looker.
  • You are a problem solver who takes initiative to create high impact for stakeholders.
  • You excel at stakeholder management and coordination across multiple teams.
  • You are a curious, multi-tasker who thrives in fast-paced, varied environments.
  • You are organised, detail-oriented, and have excellent time management skills.
  • You communicate effectively and clearly.

What’s in it for you:

Salary is £86,000 - £100,000 plus stock options.

This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences.

And much more, see our full list of benefitshere.

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves three main stages:

  1. A screening call with a member of the hiring team (30 mins).
  2. An initial call with the hiring manager (30 mins).
  3. x2 final stage interviews via Google Meet (45-60 mins) split into Technical Interview and Culture/Stakeholder Management Interview.

*There may be an additional final coffee chat with a key decision maker if you’ve not already met them during the process.Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always aim to work around your availability.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to . You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

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