Head of Compliance

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 75+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About the role

Our Compliance team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to manage conduct risk.

We’re looking for an innovative and driven Head of Compliance to join the second line of defence.

You'll be providing oversight over regulatory compliance matters, including those related to financial crime (AML, CTF, sanctions, and fraud), to maintain our desired global standards of control effectiveness and ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.

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What you'll be doing

• Providing effective oversight of 1LoD FinCrime, and collaborating closely with 2LoD regional and local MLRO teams on financial crime matters
• Maintaining and updating regulatory compliance policies, and supporting the MLRO team in maintaining financial crime policies
• Advising on the identification, remediation, and resolution of regulatory and financial crime-related risk incidents
• Assisting the 1LoD with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems, focusing on regulatory compliance and control effectiveness
• Establishing, maintaining, and reviewing dashboards regularly to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigation
• Collaborating with global Regulatory Compliance Managers to ensure local risk management frameworks and processes are aligned with global ones and deliver the intended outcome
• Identifying regulatory issues proactively and recommending remedies to promote compliance
• Preparing responses to ad hoc regulatory requests, ensuring the highest reporting standards are maintained

What you'll need

• Fluency in English and Spanish
• 10+ years of regulatory compliance, financial crime, or legal services experience in financial services
• Expertise in regulatory compliance across retail and business topics, with a solid understanding of financial crime concepts, such as AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC, and transaction monitoring
• Experience in compliance risk management within a consultancy, compliance function, or regulator
• Knowledge of financial services regulations
• An understanding of global regulatory compliance and anti-financial crime frameworks, regulatory recommendations, risk management best practices, and control arrangements
• Experience identifying regulatory risks and potential vulnerabilities, with the ability to advise efficient remediation, including collaboration on financial crime findings
• The ability to analyse data and compliance processes to draw conclusions and make recommendations