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Financial Crime Investigator – Monzo UK

We are looking for passionate investigators who love solving problems and keeping up-to-date with the latest financial crime trends to join our team, kickstart a career in anti-money laundering, and help Monzo make money work for everyone.

We believe that our investigators are best placed to protect our customers and Monzo when they have a holistic understanding of financial crime teams, typologies, and task types. This means that we tackle all types of financial crime as one financial crime team, working together to address money laundering, sanctions breaches, terrorist financing, fraud, bribery, corruption, tax evasion, and more.

This means that you’ll have the opportunity to be exposed to, and trained to work on, a broad variety of financial crime tasks over the course of your career at Monzo.

Every day, you’ll spend your time on things like:

  • Conducting screening against adverse media lists, politically exposed persons lists (PEP), and sanctions lists.
  • Making decisions about the action to take on customer accounts or sign ups across a variety of real-time queues, including transaction monitoring.
  • Engaging with other banks and financial institutions about reports of fraudulent behaviour.

You Should Apply If

  • You have experience working in operational financial crime, fraud, or screening teams – or think that you have other relevant experience that we should consider.
  • You have a keen interest in current anti-money laundering trends and typologies.
  • You love connecting the dots and solving problems.
  • You ideally have experience in one or more of the following:
    • transaction monitoring
    • screening and approving customer sign ups
    • submitting and receiving fraud reports to and from other banks
  • You are comfortable independently making judgement-based decisions with significant potential impact on the bank and customers.
  • You’re great at explaining things to people, and have flawless written English.
  • You’re excited by our mission of making money work for everyone.

Logistics

This is a distributed (work from home) role, but you can be based in our Cardiff office if you would prefer to work in an office environment.

The application process consists of some initial application questions (please take your time, we read these carefully!), a take home task, and a two-part video interview.

You will work a variety of shifts to help us tackle urgent financial crime work, including some weekends.

If you are interested in part-time work, please respond to the email which will be sent if your application is advanced, we’ll talk about how we can best make this work for you. Part-time work requests will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, and you will need to be available to work full-time for the first 7 weeks to complete the training for this role.

Salary – £22,250 – £23,250 depending on direct and relevant experience (£23,734 – £24,484 if you are based in Greater London )and a huge range of benefits. All Monzo team members get share options as part of their package.

⭐️ Benefits

  • Salary reviews every 6 months and proactive pay increases to reflect growing responsibilities
  • Share options: the option to buy shares in Monzo at a later date
  • If you’re employed as a distributed worker, we’ll pay for any equipment you need to do your job
  • Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
  • Private health insurance and paid sick leave for both physical & mental health
  • We offer a 4% employer pension contribution
  • Paid maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave, if you’ve been with us for at least 13 weeks
  • Any many more… check them all out at the bottom of this page

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Questions about this role or application process? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs ( www.monzo.com/careers ) or email us if we need to make any adjustments to the application process because of disability or neurodiversity.

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us at Monzo – if we want to solve problems for people around the world, our team has to represent our customers. So we need to attract the best talent in the world, and create an environment that supports and includes them. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our blog.

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