AML & Sanctions Investigations Officer Financial Crime & Compliance London

Hybrid working with up to 2 remote working days weekly. Step into a key role at the heart of our AML operations, where you'll take ownership of transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and in-depth investigations into potentially suspicious activity. You'll work closely with a collaborative team while also managing your own cases, using a suite of modern internal tools to help keep our clients and business safe. If you're passionate about financial crime prevention and thrive in a fast-moving fintech environment, we’d love to meet you.

Our mission is to help growing businesses send, receive and exchange money in over 190 countries. With offices in five countries and over 200 employees, you’ll be joining a high-energy, high-impact team that’s achieved profitability and has a wealth of opportunity ahead.

Our culture is genuinely transparent with minimal hierarchy and a commitment to each employee’s professional growth.

What you’ll be doing:

• Alert handling: perform investigations on AML and sanctions alerts generated by the firm’s AML and Sanctions monitoring platform.
• Investigation Management: Conduct investigations into suspected financial crime cases, collaborating with internal departments and external entities as needed.
• Documentation and Reporting: Prepare detailed reports outlining investigation findings, including evidence, analysis, and recommended actions. Maintain accurate records of all investigations.
• Management Information: Deliver periodic MI focusing on Key Risks and Performance Indicators to allow proactive and reactive investigations and risk assessments.
• Driving efficiencies: Support the Global Head of AMLSI in driving key projects to deliver best in practice AMLSI operations.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and financial crime operations teams to implement fraud and other financial crime prevention strategies and enhance overall security measures.
• Staying Informed: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging fraud risks, and new investigative techniques to continuously improve fraud and other financial crime prevention strategies.
• Compliance: Ensure that all investigative activities adhere to relevant laws, regulations, and company policies.

About you:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an AML compliance role within financial services, FinTech or start-up experience is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of UK and EU regulations, in particular rules and legislation relating to AML/Financial Crime.
• Strong analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and thoroughness in investigations.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• A degree educated in a relevant subject is preferred but not essential.
• An understanding of the functioning of the physical crypto asset environment is preferred but not essential.
• Business level proficiency in English with another language as a bonus but not necessary.

In return for your hard work:

• Competitive Salary + stock options (after 12 months) & benefits.
• Hybrid working setup in our wonderful city-centre office.
• We foster non-BAU projects in our team; we want you to explore new avenues and expand your expertise to benefit your professional pathway & our teams.
• And much, much more…

Our commitment to you:

We are an equal opportunities employer. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. Our passion and focus will always be to work with the best people. We’re creating services for everyone, so it’s imperative we work with everyone. Our diverse team has been the foundation of our success in building more efficient products, making better decisions and establishing an all-inclusive place to work. Applicants of all backgrounds are hugely encouraged to apply and discover the 3S way.