About the job
About Revolut
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 45+ 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 10,000+ 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.
About The Role
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 MLRO to ensure that the Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Control Frameworks of Revolut are fully operating effectively against money laundering. A professional excited to design, lead, and shape the future of oversight and compliance. A sharp mind who can quickly identify money laundering risk and maintain our systems and controls, considering a range of factors.
Up for the challenge? Let’s get in touch 🚀
What You’ll Be Doing
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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 45+ 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 10,000+ 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.
About The Role
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 MLRO to ensure that the Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Control Frameworks of Revolut are fully operating effectively against money laundering. A professional excited to design, lead, and shape the future of oversight and compliance. A sharp mind who can quickly identify money laundering risk and maintain our systems and controls, considering a range of factors.
Up for the challenge? Let’s get in touch 🚀
What You’ll Be Doing
- Defining, developing, refining, and documenting the Financial Crime and AML Programme to manage all sources of regulatory risk and reporting
- Working closely with the group FinCrime function and other senior managers to identify, assess, update, and mitigate regulatory compliance risks
- Determining priorities and resources required to effectively control risks
- Determining identification and verification standards for customer take-on and AML compliance
- Managing the suspicious activity reporting process, internally and externally
- Communicating with necessary staff to ensure they're trained to identify financial crime, escalate suspicious activity, and make external reports
- Receiving and promptly responding to enquiries from law enforcement agencies
- Serving as a liaison to the local authorities, managing filings to the local Financial Investigation Unit
- Supporting the business where necessary regarding the launch of products to ensure regulatory requirements are met, as appropriate
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in French and/or Dutch
- A bachelor’s degree with a relevant master’s degree preferred or a professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (e.g. ICA, ACAMS)
- 7+ years of experience in a relevant role
- Knowledge and experience of best practise in financial services regulation, fraud detection methodologies, and emerging practise in financial crime and money laundering typologies
- Great communication skills
- The ability to exercise oversight, knowledge, and understanding of financial crime and AML policies, procedures, and control arrangements in a complex financial operation
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution
- Deep knowledge of the Belgian and EU regulatory environment and key financial crime regimes
- An understanding of payment systems and markets with a focus on technology and mobile applications
Refer to our <a class="postings-link" href="https://www.revolut.com/legal/data-privacy-for-candidates">Data Privacy Statement for Candidates for details on our data handling practices during your application.
