Job Description
Lead a team of compliance experts to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud in a fast-growing online money transmitter.
Remitly is a licensed financial services company with a global presence, committed to delivering trusted financial services that transcend borders. Our vision is to transform lives by providing access to financial services that extend beyond traditional barriers.
As a Compliance Team Manager, you will lead a team responsible for reviewing unusual activity within customer profiles, ensuring compliance with internal policies, local jurisdiction financial service laws, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a team with a compliance-focused function within the operations team, reviewing unusual activity within customer profiles that may be related to money laundering, terrorist financing or fraud.
- Ensuring the distribution of case workload and meeting required service levels.
- Supporting the team using data to improve work processes by identifying new opportunities.
- Communicating to key management stakeholders on salient issues, trends, and business opportunities.
- Supporting horizon scanning and financial crime trends to monitor regulatory developments and suggest updates to the AML investigation and reporting program.
- Identifying customer-related trends, patterns, and issues associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraudulent transaction activity.
- Managing the performance of your team to defined metrics while supporting each team member's growth and professional development.
- Promoting the evaluation of internal reports to confirm compliance with user agreement and regulatory requirements.
- Supporting the execution and ongoing improvement of the global suspicious activity investigation and reporting program in line with Global compliance requirements.
- Providing guidance and ensuring teams are completing and tracking the remediation of corrective actions arising from testing.
- Supporting the Global Financial Crime and Compliance Officers in ensuring compliance with Anti-Money Laundering policies and procedures.
- Coordinating the review of referrals from other sources such as law enforcement or other financial institutions.
- Initiating projects for continuous improvement, doing the right thing for our customers while protecting the sustainability of our business.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience investigating unusual activity and filing regulatory reports related to AML, CTF, or Fraud Investigations.
- Substantive knowledge of KYC, AML, CTF, and fraud regulations within the fintech industry.
- Relevant industry (Specialist-Level) Certification.
- Prior experience managing a compliance team or in highly complex & regulated operations.
- Experience training and writing procedures.
Benefits:
- 34 days of vacation (including public holidays).
- Group private medical insurance.
- Group pension (6% contributed) and group income protection.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits.
- Learning and Development Benefits.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer, committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.