A growing international money transfer business wants an experienced MLRO to own financial crime compliance for its UK-regulated entity. This is a standalone, senior role reporting to the CFO, with direct exposure to the CEO and Board.
Responsibilities
- Act as nominated MLRO and primary FCA contact on financial crime
- Manage the internal SAR process, NCA submissions (including DAML) and law enforcement requests
- Own the firm-wide risk assessment and AML/CTF, Sanctions, PEP and ABC policies
- Set KYC/CDD/EDD standards and approve high-risk and PEP relationships
- Oversee sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and fraud controls
- Produce the Annual MLRO Report and regular Board reporting
- Deliver AML training and run assurance reviews
- MLRO or Deputy MLRO experience, ideally in payments, remittance, e-money or fintech
- 5+ years in a senior UK compliance role
- International experience essential; African markets exposure a plus
- Commercially minded, collaborative and comfortable working autonomously
