Senior Financial Crime Compliance Analyst

TerraPay

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Apply easily
Who are we?TerraPay is a leading innovator in the world of mobile-first payments, transcending boundaries to provide lightning-fast financial solutions. Our dynamic Cross-Border Mobile Payments Network empowers licensed financial institutions, organizations, and merchants to conduct real-time money transfers, merchant payments, and push transactions globally. We have garnered the trust of prominent companies worldwide, establishing TerraPay as a pivotal player in the digital payments landscape. To learn more about us, visitWhat do we stand for?At TerraPay, we stand for innovation, efficiency, and the relentless pursuit of excellence in the payments industry. Our commitment is to deliver seamless financial interactions, enhance global connectivity, and drive transformative changes in the way people and businesses exchange funds. We place a strong emphasis on trust, security, and collaboration, ensuring that our clients and partners experience world-class financial services with unmatched integrity.RequirementsJob scope:The Senior Financial Crime Compliance Analyst will be joining the new UK Financial Crime Team at TerraPay and will be responsible for assisting with the onboarding of corporate customers for new products, and investigating escalations from the Compliance Operations team based in Bangalore. They will be working closely with the UK MLRO in ensuring the compliance with AML regulations in the UK and will help build and test new processes and procedures for onboarding, periodic reviews, and transaction monitoring.Responsibilities:
  • Providing guidance, responding to escalations and where needed, directly onboarding TerraPay clients, carrying out full screening and risk assessments, ensuring that TerraPay’s customer due diligence requirements are met in full.
  • Performing quality assurance testing on the Bangalore compliance team, and completing post testing reporting, training, and remediation plans.
  • Working directly with the business development managers / relationship managers to ensure new clients are within TerraPay’s risk appetite and comply with TerraPay UK and global AML policies.
  • Performing enhanced deep dive customer risk assessments and producing comprehensive reports for the UK MLRO to assist with high-risk customer decisioning.
  • Working on creating procedure guides and manuals for the onboarding of clients from new business verticals, such as travel operators, payroll providers, technical service providers.
  • Delivering training to the Compliance Operations team based in Bangalore to transition new processes over to the team, providing support to them during the transition.
  • Managing ongoing due diligence reviews on existing customers to ensure that TerraPay’s customer due diligence information is up-to-date, and that the customer/partner is conducting activity in line with onboarding expectations.
  • Handling escalations from the Compliance Operations teams in Bangalore and investigating the concerns against the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing presented, suggesting mitigating actions where required.
  • Ensure suspicious activity reports (SARs) are filed promptly with the NCA
  • Staying up-to-date with regulatory developments affecting the business, and maintaining a working knowledge of MLRs 2017 and PSD2.
Knowledge / Experience:
  • Experience of correspondent banking relationships is preferred.
  • Payments experience, specially in money remittance, or alternative payment methods is preferred.
  • Experience/knowledge of issuing + acquiring is also preferred, including knowledge of Visa/Mastercard scheme rules.
  • Preferably experience in performing EDD assessments on high-risk and complex clients.
  • 5+ years of experience in financial crime (KYC, CDD, EDD, transaction monitoring, quality assurance testing, SAR reporting).
  • ICA, ACAMS or equivalent AML certifications would be advantageous.
Benefits
  • A competitive compensation package, including performance bonuses.
  • Join a global team with members from 45+ different nationalities spread across 5 continents.
  • 25 days Holidays + bank holidays and birthday leave

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