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Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Revolut

Revolut

Accounting & Finance, Legal
Cyprus · Remote
Posted on Feb 22, 2025

Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Remote: Cyprus

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 50+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About the role

Compliance is a key team that ensures Revolut’s products and processes meet the regulatory requirements and translate this into the best customer outcomes. They’ve got an outstanding ability to find solutions and carry out testing in a purely digital environment. Those data-driven experts know that better people and machines are the most effective way of managing conduct risk.

We’re looking for a Financial Crime Compliance Manager to ensure that the Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Control Frameworks of Revolut are fully operating effectively against money laundering. You‘ll design and shape the future of oversight and compliance by quickly identifying money laundering risks and maintaining our systems and controls, considering a range of factors.

Up to shape the future of finance? Let’s get in touch.

What you’ll be doing

  • Maintaining and refreshing all group FinCrime policies
  • Providing oversight and support to the identification, remediation, and resolution of FinCrime-related risk incidents
  • Assisting senior management in defining standards to manage FinCrime risks and ensure that these standards are applied across the organisation
  • Offering 2LoD support to the business and 1LoD FinCrime teams with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems
  • Ensuring FinCrime risks are considered in our day-to-day operations, such as in the development of new features and taking-on of new customers
  • Supporting FinCrime training for employees
  • Participating in FinCrime-related governance committees to check and challenge initiative owners, identify potential issues, and propose solutions
  • Establishing, maintaining, and reviewing dashboards to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigation
  • Preparing reports to senior management, group committees, and the Board, and escalating any key or high-risk financial crime compliance issues

What you'll need

  • A bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ years of experience in a relevant role
  • Knowledge and experience of best practise in financial services regulation, fraud detection methodologies, and emerging practise in financial crime and money laundering typologies
  • Great communication skills
  • The ability to exercise oversight and understanding of financial crime and AML policies, procedures, and control arrangements in a complex financial operation
  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills to analyse complex information and identify the key issue/action to drive resolutions
  • Deep knowledge of the local and EU regulatory environment and key financial crime regimes
  • An understanding of payment systems and markets with a focus on technology and mobile applications
  • Fluency in English

Nice to have

  • A master’s degree or professional qualification from an internationally recognised body, such as ICA, ACAMS, or CySEC AML certification

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.

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