Financial Crime Assurance Analyst

The role

The Financial Crime Assurance Analyst is a key role that reports directly into the Group MLRO and will be responsible for operating the second line oversight framework. The role will be responsible for monitoring and testing our financial crime risk controls, working with our auditors to ensure that audit reviews go smoothly, and will be responsible for driving closure of open issues.

This is a hands-on role that has both a long-term, strategic focus as well as getting the day-to-day things done.

What excites you:

• Providing assurance of our financial crime risk controls through regular testing, thematic reviews, targeted deep-dive reviews, and data analysis — assessing adequacy of GoCardless’ financial crime policies, procedures and systems.
  • Planning, preparing, and executing the end-to-end annual Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring program.
  • Drafting reports that outline findings and corresponding action plans to mitigate issues found during reviews.
  • Pulling, and then slicing and dicing large data (advanced Excel, SQL etc.) to identify and monitor risk indicators.
• Managing and/or overseeing day-to-day regulatory/external/internal exams related to financial crime — including preparation, coordination, and response activities.
• Logging and tracking to completion of assurance, audit, self-identified and other related risks and issues, to validate remediation efforts, as well as escalate to relevant stakeholders where appropriate.
• Supporting the development, introduction and completion of project and business solutions to resolve any financial crime related matters.
• Delivering targeted financial crime training and conducting root cause "lessons learned" sessions for the Compliance Operations and Sales teams to drive continuous improvement in areas identified during reviews.
• Developing cross-functional skills within the global team and demonstrating a proactive willingness to support, own, and execute tasks from start to finish. 
• Supporting the wider Regulatory Compliance Assurance team as required, providing insight and assistance to ensure firm-wide adherence to evolving regulatory standards globally.

What excites us:

• Have an understanding of financial crime risks and controls, especially have knowledge of ML/TF/Sanctions risk, KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, and screening.
• Have at least two to four years’ experience in an assurance-based role (e.g. audit, compliance monitoring, model validation); and are comfortable with assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls.
• Are organised and have an ability to recommend practical remediations and track issues to closure.
• Excellent project and stakeholder management.
• Have objective verbal and writing skills to write and communicate clear and concise assurance reports which are accessible to non-financial crime experts.
• Deliver targeted presentations that succinctly report on the effectiveness of our issue management process.
• Understanding of financial crime model calibration — knowledge of fuzzy matching logic and ‘tuning’ testing including AtL and BtL testing.

Base salary range: £34,400 - £51,600 

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data.  Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£34,400 - £43,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.