Senior Specialist for the AML/KYC team ensuring verification and compliance for private equity investors. Reviewing documents and assisting in client onboarding with operational excellence.
About the role
- Senior AML Executive enhancing compliance and managing due diligence within OpenPayd’s financial operations. Collaborating with First Line teams and ensuring adherence to AML and regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
- Act as a Second Line point of escalation for First Line AML teams, reviewing and assessing complex, high-risk or sensitive onboarding and due diligence cases.
- Provide risk-based guidance and challenge to First Line colleagues on AML, CDD, EDD, Sanctions and Financial Crime matters
- Review and assess First Line risk decisions, ensuring consistency with internal policies, regulatory requirements and risk appetite.
- Resolve escalations from First Line teams, documenting rationale and outcomes clearly and proportionately.
- Delivering training within the department, and mentoring to First Line staff, and new starters.
- Conducting Quality Control on applications and providing SME feedback.
- Conducting Compliance calls with customers, ultimately assessing the customers controls and compliance program
- Proactively identifying and sharing areas of improvement in the due diligence processes and procedures.
- Presenting case files, and an overview of Processes during internal and external compliance audits
- Drafting and enhancing compliance policies and procedure
Requirements
- An expert in Compliance with a comprehensive knowledge and experience within Financial Services Compliance with a minimum of 3 years AML experience
- In-depth knowledge of AML, CTF, and Financial Services regulations, as well as industry best practices for robust AML Frameworks
- Background in CDD and ongoing assurance of complex client types and corporate structures
- Proven experience in the UK/EU regulated financial services sector - preferably within a fintech, challenger bank, correspondent banking, or consultancy firm.
- Experience working with Digital Asset service providers is also beneficial
- The ability to self-manage, organize competing priorities effectively and meet deadlines
- Ability to mentor, and deliver training in a confident cohesive manner
- You enjoy working efficiently in a fast-paced, high-volume environment and thrive when there's ambiguity
- Experience of working in fintech
- Strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability and attention to detail
- Good inter-personal skills
- Ability to communicate both orally and in writing, and be able to present credibly and professionally to senior management
- Able to build strong relationships with peers and business counterparts
Benefits
- Personal training budget - £3000
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership - £80 towards any gym
- Corporate discounts via PerkBox
- Travel loan
- Company Pension plan
- Health, Dental & Life Insurance
- Wednesday office breakfasts, office fruits and a full bar & regular team socials
- 25 days annual leave plus the Bank Holidays, extra day off for Birthday & Social Volunteering
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