Financial Crime Prevention Specialist

PingPong is on a mission to simplify global growth for businesses. With $200B+ in payments processed, we're one of the world’s leading cross-border platforms. PingPong currently has 38 offices in 15 countries and over 1,500 employees. Our international presence helps businesses solve complex payment needs in every major economy across all time zones.

The Financial Crime Prevention Specialist plays a hands-on role in customer onboarding, transaction monitoring and ongoing compliance and risk reviews across the UK and EU. This is an opportunity for someone with strong execution skills and a proactive mindset to be a key part of core financial crime operations processes at a high-growth global cross-border payments business. You will collaborate with product, commercial and compliance teams to deliver high-quality outcomes and continuously improve how we operate.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Conduct end to end KYC/KYB reviews for new B2B customers across the UK and EU, including corporate structure analysis, UBO identification, sanctions and PEP screening, and risk assessment.
• Collect, verify and assess customer documentation in line with the company’s risk-based onboarding framework, ensuring all due diligence requirements are met before account activation.
• Perform enhanced due diligence on higher risk customers, documenting findings clearly and escalating where appropriate.
• Review and act on transaction monitoring alerts across PingPong’s full suite of payment services.
• Investigate potentially suspicious activity, conducting transaction analysis, documenting rationale and findings clearly.
• Prepare and submit SARs and related filings where required.
• Identify patterns and trends and emerging risks from alerts and elevate insights where appropriate.
• Support periodic review programme, ensuring customer risk profiles and documentation remain up to date.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve onboarding and monitoring workflows, proposing practical solutions and supporting implementation.
• Assist in developing and maintaining SOPs, templates and guidance materials for the financial crime operations function.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 2-4 years of experience in financial crime operations, KYC/KYB onboarding, transaction monitoring, or AML investigations at an EMI, payments company, bank or fintech.
• Solid working knowledge of UK and EU AML/CTF regulations.
• Hands-on experience conducting onboarding of B2B customers, including reviewing corporate structures, UBO identification and risk assessment.
• Experience reviewing transaction monitoring alerts and conducting investigations, with an understanding of common financial crime typologies.
• Sound knowledge of the financial services regulatory environment in EMEA.
• Proficiency with compliance tools, e.g. SumSub or similar.
• Strong attention to detail and clear logical thinking.
• Background in high-growth startup or scale-up environments strongly preferred.
• Comfortable using data to identify trends and support decision-making. Familiarity with Excel and basic data analysis is expected.
• Fluent written and spoken English is required. Proficiency in a European language or Mandarin is a bonus.

WHO YOU ARE

• You’ll thrive in this role if you take ownership – you don’t wait to be told what to do. You see what needs doing, flag issues early, and drive tasks through to completion.
• Execute with rigour – you are thorough, reliable and take pride in the quality of your work, even under time pressure.
• Communicate clearly – you can articulate compliance findings and onboarding decisions to diverse audiences, from commercial colleagues to senior stakeholders.
• Solutions driven – you can understand conflicting priorities and are driven to find a solution that can help drive forward the business as well as maintain a high quality of compliance and risk mitigation.
• Think like an operator – you’re always looking for ways to make processes better, faster and more scalable without compromising compliance standards.
• Thrive in ambiguity – you’re comfortable in fast-changing environments, find pragmatic ways forward and don’t need perfect instructions to get started.
• Are naturally curious – you have an investigative mindset and enjoy getting to the bottom of a problem.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Private medical and dental insurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Parental leave (maternity/paternity)
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling global organisation

If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. PingPong is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment.