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Financial Crime Director

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. 

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨

 

📍London OR UK Remote | 💰£110,000 - £160,000 +  Benefits | Hear from the team ✨ 

⭐ Our FinCrime team

We're a team of dedicated Financial Crime experts working together to outsmart criminals and keep our customers safe. The team comprises risk experts, engineers, data scientists and machine learning specialists to develop the cutting edge of Financial Crime controls. We're searching for someone who's as passionate about safeguarding customers and protecting society as we are.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by…

Leading a large team of Financial Crime risk experts, responsible for the effective operation of a suite of Fincrime controls. You'll be at the forefront of innovation, employing the latest technologies to craft detective and preventive tools that respond quickly to threats. With your contributions, we'll continue to stay several steps ahead of money laundering, terrorist or other criminal activity, ensuring the continued trust and safety of our customers.

You’ll spend your time setting and executing Financial Crime systems and controls strategy, working in close partnership with multidisciplinary teams across Monzo. You’ll be partnering with third party service providers to deliver cutting edge Financial Crime controls to support Monzo’s safe growth and protect our customers.

🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…

  • You’re an exceptional Financial Crime leader, with a career history of leading large teams responsible for managing and developing a broad suite of Financial Crime controls.
  • You can influence senior stakeholders and have a track record of solving complex problems in multidisciplinary teams.
  • You have a strong track record in developing innovative strategies to combat all types of Financial Crime.
  • You're resilient and comfortable working in a fast paced environment where the day to day job is constantly evolving and changing.
  • You’re passionate about Financial Crime and protecting customers.
  • You’re excited by what we’re doing at Monzo

🙌What’s in it for you

💰£110,000 - £160,000 ➕share options.

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) 

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. 

➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.

🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps

  • Call with a Monzo Recruiter
  • Initial call with the Hiring Manager
  • Interview Loop: 2 - 3 competency-based interviews (usually conducted over GoogleMeet)
  • Final exec Call

This process should take around 3-6 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! 

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.

You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to business-hiring@monzo.com You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

⏳We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. 

 

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Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2023 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

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