Head Financial Crime Compliance (Crypto)
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As Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Revolut, you design and lead the future of oversight and compliance for all things crypto. You blend regulatory expertise with a deep understanding of business risk to ensure our crypto products meet global AML/CTF standards. You join our Financial Crime team, which combines regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to stay ahead in a fast-moving, digital environment.
What you'll do
- Steer cryptoasset products through the global financial crime regulatory landscape
- Manage FinCrime compliance across multiple crypto jurisdictions and entities
- Define and maintain all group-wide financial crime policies to stay ahead of regulatory changes
- Provide oversight and support to the identification, remediation, and resolution of FinCrime-related risk incidents
- Offer second-line-of-defense support to the business and first-line-of-defense FinCrime teams with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems
- Ensure FinCrime risks are considered in day-to-day operations, including the development of new products and new customer acquisition
- Establish, maintain, and review dashboards to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigation
- Prepare reports to group committees and the Board, escalating any key or high-risk financial crime compliance issues
What you bring
- 7+ years of experience in FinCrime (AML/CTF and sanctions), covering a range of subjects across retail and business customers such as KYC, CDD, transaction monitoring, and risk assessments
- Expertise working with crypto products and a deep understanding of related FinCrime risks, frameworks, and legislations (for example, FATF, TFR)
- Experience managing FinCrime risk in a regulated entity (for example, under MiCA or VARA)
- Excellent knowledge of global requirements for financial crime controls
- An understanding of industry-wide financial crime practices and trends
- Exceptional ability to identify financial crime risks and potential vulnerabilities, and to advise on best practices to address those findings
- A track record of stakeholder management and the ability to collaborate, negotiate, and communicate effectively
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- A professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (for example, ICA or ACAMS)
- Knowledge of key regulatory issues on anti-fraud and control assessment processes
What we offer
- Poland: PLN27,100-PLN31,900 gross monthly
- Other locations: compensation will be discussed during the interview process and determined based on your qualifications, skills, and previous experience
- Remote position based in Spain
About Revolut
Revolut is a financial super app with 75+ million customers, offering products for spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more. Since 2015, the company has been on a mission to give people more visibility, control, and freedom with their money. Revolut has 13,000+ people working across offices and remote teams worldwide and is certified as a Great Place to Work.
