Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

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What we’re looking for:

As a Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager who can support our international expansion You'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, Operations and Tech teams to ensure that MBEU implements solutions to effectively and efficiently manage risks.

• Regulatory Engagement: Assist with understanding Financial Crime regulatory requirements within new jurisdictions, developing approaches to meet these requirements, and engaging with regulators.
• Strategic Oversight: Ensure that First Line of Defence Financial Crime Operations are operating effectively
• 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.

What You'll Be Doing

• Formulating and executing strategic projects aligned with Monzo's EU expansion.
• Defining Financial Crime requirements for expansion to new jurisdictions and working with Product, Risk and Technical teams to define solutions and deliver these.
• Owning Financial Crime 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 Risk Leadership Team for meetings with key stakeholders (e.g. regulators, suppliers, law enforcement).
• Supporting the Director of Fraud and Financial Crime Risk 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 
• You are a problem solver who takes initiative to create high impact for stakeholders.
• Excel at stakeholder management and coordination across multiple teams.
• Are a curious, multi-tasker who thrives in fast-paced, varied environments.
• Are organised, detail-oriented, and have excellent time management skills
• Communicate effectively and clearly.

🙌What’s in it for you

💰 A competitive compensation package, composed of a base salary ➕share options.

📍This role will be based in a Dublin office, however you will be expected to travel to Monzo’s head offices in London from time to time.

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

🏝 Annual Leave - 34 days including public holidays (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays)

📚€1,200 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏥Private healthcare scheme

💰Pension scheme: the minimum contribution is 4% and Monzo matches any additional contributions that you make up to a maximum of 6%

💛Wellbeing benefits: financial education, women’s and men’s health support, mental health benefits, including coaching and counselling

🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps

• Recruiter Call
• Initial Call with Hiring Manager
• Role Specific and Behavioural Interviews with the wider team

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

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You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to business-hiring@monzo.com. 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.

We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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