Financial Crime Team Leader

About the role

As the Financial Crime Team Leader you will manage Financial Crime Operations, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance around transaction monitoring and suspicious activity reporting. You will drive continuous improvement in response to a changing financial‑crime landscape and identify efficiency opportunities.

Your team’s objectives:

The Fraud and Financial Crime Team aims to build and enhance an effective framework to combat fraud and financial crime while balancing customer needs. Risk mitigation is a key objective and we focus on data analysis and automation to deliver solutions efficiently.

• Monitor day‑to‑day performance of Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime Referrals, including SARs, and address identified challenges.
• Oversee the financial crime transaction monitoring team, providing direction and assistance with complex cases.
• Equip operations teams with effective training and guidance.
• Lead investigations to ensure accurate and efficient outcomes.
• Support senior management with operational changes and multiple projects.
• Build and maintain a high‑performance, agile management culture aligned with company values.
• Manage personal and professional development of direct reports.
• Contribute to a strong control environment by minimizing breaches, risk events, and resolving incidents.
• Provide timely and useful operational management information to senior management.
• Work closely with control owners and product teams to drive operational demand and alignment.

• Implement an effective financial crime screening operation in collaboration with the Head of Department, managers, and second‑line stakeholders.
• Collaborate with analytics to identify internal and external data sources for high‑risk activity detection, integrating insights into profiling.
• Work with senior product stakeholders to ensure a cohesive approach across the customer lifecycle.
• Manage financial crime processes to optimize the operations function.

• Winning team: scale up one of the world’s leading fintech companies.
• Flexible working: tailored to each role, with hybrid roles requiring three days in‑office weekly and remote roles offering regular in‑person connection.
• Socials & connection: events to socialize and build community.
• Health coverage: support for physical and mental well‑being, including private health cover.
• Retirement & savings: long‑term financial well‑being through retirement savings plans.
• Employee referral programme: bonus when referring successful applicants.
• Office meals & snacks: fully stocked kitchen and complimentary lunches prepared by in‑house chefs on in‑office days at select locations.
• Sustainable commuting: cycle‑to‑work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations.