Financial Crime Officer

Overview

In this role, you strengthen Teya’s defences by leading Enhanced Due Diligence on high-risk customers and managing Suspicious Activity Reports. You’ll monitor evolving AML, CTF, and sanctions regulations, and collaborate across Legal, Risk, Operations, and Product to keep our controls effective in a fast-growing fintech. You help shape KYC/KYB tooling and drive process improvements, ensuring policy alignment and regulatory compliance. This is a chance to impact a customer-centric fintech at scale while upholding rigorous standards.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Wellbeing support with Wellhub (gym access, therapy)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Health and Life Insurance
• Pension Scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead Enhanced Due Diligence reviews on high-risk customers and manage SARs to NCA/FIUs
• Oversee regulatory policy monitoring and change management across AML/CTF and sanctions regimes
• Advise cross-functional teams on required process adjustments to stay compliant
• Contribute to development and improvement of internal KYC/KYB tools and automate controls
• Provide second-line oversight and QA of first-line controls, alert handling, case management, and EDD outputs
• Collaborate with Legal, Risk and Operations to ensure alignment with policies and regulations

Key requirements

• 5–6 years of relevant experience in Compliance, Financial Crime, AML & CTF in fintech, digital banking, credit or financial services
• University degree in Law, Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or related field
• Strong knowledge of UK and EU AML regulations (FCA, JMLSG, MLRs, POCA, FATF, Basel)
• Excellent written and verbal communication for policies, SARs, and regulatory communications
• Proven ability to drive process improvements in workflows, tools, policies, and procedures
• Desirable but not required: CAMS, ICA Advanced AML, CFCS certifications and strong data/analytical skills (SQL, Excel)

• clear communicator
• collaborative
• problem-solver
• AML/CTF knowledge
• EDD and SAR handling
• Regulatory policy monitoring

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