FinCrime Escalations Officer - FinCrime

Fin Crime Escalations Officer - Fin Crime US

Remote: US

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 80+ 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 13,000+ 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.

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 an Escalations Officer to ensure effective and compliant suspicious activity reporting in Revolut branches across Europe. You'll be performing assessments and making decisions on suspicious activity reports, which are escalated from the first line of defence. This position will report directly to the MLRO.

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• Acting as the escalation point and ensuring high-quality suspicious activity reports are submitted according to local requirements
• Responding to regulatory inquiries and other requests from local authorities relatedto submitted suspicious activity reports
• Responding to other queries related to complex or other cases where second line of defence review is needed
  
  Working with MLRO and escalating significant cases, reporting trends, monitoring and detecting of rare and/or new patterns
• Working on escalated cases or tickets and complying with the expected times of resolution
• Participating and collaborating with management as needed in projects, training, and implementation of new processes

• Experience as compliance/Fin Crime officer in a major financial institution
• Exposure in Fin Crime operations, acting as the escalation point and ensuring positive hits are investigated and escalated as required in a timely manner
• Deep knowledge of AML and Sanctions regulations
• Experience in operating a variety of internal and external systems and databases in order to complete investigations
• The ability to review policies and procedures and advise if changes are required when necessary
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution
• The skill to present a summary and proposed conclusion to management in a timely and clear manner, including proposals to implement appropriate steps to mitigate risk and/or monitor it
• An understanding of payment systems and markets with a focus on technology and mobile applications
• Fluency in English

• US: $63,000 - $80,000 gross annually*
• Other locations:
  Compensation will be discussed during the interview process

* Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and previous experience

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