Financial Crime Compliance Manager - Sanctions Focus

About Revolut

Revolut empowers people to gain greater control, clarity, and freedom with their finances. Since its founding in 2015, it has built a broad suite of financial products including spending, saving, investing, currency exchange, and travel support, serving over 75 million users globally. The company rapidly grows with a workforce exceeding 13,000 employees working worldwide both onsite and remotely. Revolut prides itself on a strong company culture recognized by the Great Place to Work™ certification.

Role Overview

The Financial Crime team integrates deep regulatory knowledge and data insights to ensure compliance and deliver value in a dynamic digital setting by pioneering scalable measures to combat financial crime. The role involves joining as a Financial Crime Compliance Manager focusing specifically on sanctions within the second line of defence—designing, leading, and refining compliance oversight practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Keeping abreast of updates in sanctions regulations and evaluating their implications
• Developing and maintaining financial crime policies related to sanctions and combating terrorism financing
• Managing the sanction screening framework, including tool parameter oversight
• Providing expert advice on complicated sanctions issues and liaising with regulatory bodies
• Supporting the internal control framework through conducting risk assessments, control designs, monitoring indicators, analyzing incidents, and issuing recommendations
• Delivering second line of defence support to operational teams during launches of products, procedures, and systems
• Assisting with financial crime training initiatives for staff

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Over 5 years' experience working in financial crime compliance, specifically sanctions and terrorism financing, across both retail and corporate customers
• Familiarity with emerging financial services such as cryptocurrencies and buy-now-pay-later models, alongside their associated risks
• Extensive knowledge of sanctions regulations and practical experience in regulatory communications
• Hands-on experience with sanction screening tools
• Awareness of industry financial crime trends and practices
• Knowledge of the French sanctions framework
• Competence in identifying vulnerabilities in financial crime risk and advising on mitigation strategies
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders effectively through collaboration, negotiation, and communication
• Fluency in English

Additional Advantages

• Professional certifications from internationally recognized bodies such as ICA or ACAMS
• Fluency in French

Diversity and Inclusion

Revolut embraces diversity and fosters an inclusive culture as key to innovation and delivering outstanding services. Applicants from varied backgrounds are encouraged to apply, contributing to a multicultural and hardworking team.

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