Financial Crime Framework Specialist - Remote

Overview

We're on the hunt for a sharp Financial Crime Framework Specialist experienced in the fast-paced world of payments (like us!). You'll be a key player in our first-line Financial Crime team, helping us take our frameworks to the next level. Think of yourself as a crucial link, empowering customers, our frontline and operational teams and collaborating closely with product and compliance teams to ensure we're always ahead of the curve.

In Short

• Elevating our framework: You'll build on your experience by contributing to the ongoing development, documentation, and maintenance of Pleo's financial crime policies, procedures, and guidance, ensuring they're not just compliant, but truly best-in-class for a payments business.
• Deep-diving into anti-financial crime principles for onboarding: You'll bring your understanding of FinCrime principles, methodologies, and the critical importance of high-quality customer due diligence within a first-line payments environment.
• Crafting impactful guidance: You'll use your knowledge to research and create clear, practical guidance for our frontline teams and other departments, drawing on your experience to address the specific nuances of customer due diligence in Pleo markets.
• Empowering our frontline: You'll be one of the go-to experts for our operational teams, providing informed support on financial crime matters and challenging legacy onboarding issues you've likely encountered before.
• Collaborating with Compliance (with insights to share): You'll be a valuable partner for our second line of defence, providing data, insightful analysis, and experienced feedback on the effectiveness of our financial crime controls in the first line.
• Driving quality improvements: You'll apply your experience to review and analyse financial crime-related data and metrics, proactively identifying trends, gaps, and opportunities to enhance our processes.
• Staying ahead in a changing landscape: You'll keep abreast of relevant financial crime regulations impacting the payments industry and proactively contribute to the implementation of necessary framework updates, drawing on your understanding of regulatory expectations.
• Supporting key projects: You'll be supporting ongoing and new projects related to financial crime framework enhancements and system implementations, potentially leading process changes based on your prior experience and ensuring we achieve quality results.
• Contributing to meaningful reporting: You'll assist in the preparation of insightful reports and presentations on financial crime framework activities and findings, leveraging your understanding of key metrics and risks in the payments sector.

Requirements

• Proven experience in KYC, customer risk assessment, or other Financial crime-related area, ideally within a payments firm or similarly regulated environment.
• A solid understanding of the regulatory landscapes in the UK and EU.
• A knack for translating complex information into clear and practical guidance.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to researching and explaining complex ideas.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our teams we offer remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶