Fincrime Assurance Associate
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GriffinFinTech, Banking
London or remote within the UKFull-TimeMiddle
Salary not disclosed
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Requirements
- Experience working in financial crime compliance, ideally in an audit, assurance, oversight, or monitoring capacity
- Hands-on review experience rather than purely advisory or policy work
- Hands-on experience conducting financial crime audit or assurance reviews or assessments
- Experience with reviewing control frameworks and identifying gaps
- Experience with writing reports and recommendations on the back of audit or assurance reviews
- Solid understanding of financial crime controls: AML, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring, SARs, QA/QC
- Solid understanding of end-to-end onboarding and ongoing customer journeys
- Confidence managing external relationships and having direct, sometimes difficult conversations with customers
- Strong organisational skills and an analytical mindset
- A love of writing, with high importance on clarity and readability
- Familiarity with different onboarding models within embedded finance a DC can use (managed, reliance, or outsourced) and their impact on review scope and depth (Ideally)
- Hold a relevant financial crime qualification such as an ICA diploma (Ideally)
- Experience presenting findings to senior stakeholders (Ideally)
Responsibilities
- Own the assurance review schedule as the DC book grows, maintaining accurate risk ratings and appropriate scrutiny levels for each customer
- Review and close out post-live conditions for newly onboarded Direct Customers (DCs) where applicable
- Issue assurance review requests, including scoping appropriate questions and sample requests based on entity type, operating model, and risk rating
- Conduct in-depth reviews of DC responses, identifying gaps and weaknesses in their financial crime controls
- Produce formal review reports with clear findings and recommendations on DC risk rating adjustments (maintain, increase, or decrease)
- Draft and issue recommendations to DCs, then track and follow up until full closure is confirmed
- Engage with external stakeholders, including CEOs, MLROs, and Compliance Managers, especially when sharing difficult findings or recommendations
- Contribute ideas on how to improve and streamline the assurance process, including involvement in projects such as automation
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