Financial Crime Specialist

We're on the hunt for a sharp **Financial Crime Framework Specialist** experienced in the fast-paced world of payments (like us). You'll be a key player in our first-line Financial Crime team, helping us take our frameworks to the next level. Think of yourself as a crucial link, empowering customers, our frontline and operational teams and collaborating closely with product and compliance teams to ensure we're always ahead of the curve.

If you've already got some solid experience under your belt in navigating FinCrime and understanding customer risk in a payments setting, and you're looking to make a real impact in a dynamic company, this is your chance

**What you'll be doing**:

- Elevating our framework: You'll build on your experience by contributing to the ongoing development, documentation, and maintenance of Pleo's financial crime policies, procedures, and guidance, ensuring they're not just compliant, but truly best-in-class for a payments business.
- Deep-diving into anti-financial crime principles for onboarding: You'll bring your understanding of FinCrime principles, methodologies, and the critical importance of high-quality customer due diligence within a first-line payments environment.
- Crafting impactful guidance: You'll use your knowledge to research and create clear, practical guidance for our frontline teams and other departments, drawing on your experience to address the specific nuances of customer due diligence in Pleo markets.
- Empowering our frontline: You'll be one of the go-to experts for our operational teams, providing informed support on financial crime matters and challenging legacy onboarding issues you've likely encountered before.
- Collaborating with Compliance (with insights to share): You'll be a valuable partner for our second line of defence, providing data, insightful analysis, and experienced feedback on the effectiveness of our financial crime controls in the first line.
- Staying ahead in a changing landscape: You'll keep abreast of relevant financial crime regulations impacting the payments industry and proactively contribute to the implementation of necessary framework updates, drawing on your understanding of regulatory expectations.
- Supporting key projects: You'll be supporting ongoing and new projects related to financial crime framework enhancements and system implementations, potentially leading process changes based on your prior experience and ensuring we achieve quality results.
- Contributing to meaningful reporting: You'll assist in the preparation of insightful reports and presentations on financial crime framework activities and findings, leveraging your understanding of key metrics and risks in the payments sector.

**What you'll bring to the table**:

- Proven experience in KYC, customer risk assessment, or other Financial crime-related area, ideally within a payments firm or similarly regulated environment.
- A solid understanding of the regulatory landscapes in the UK and EU.
- A knack for translating complex information into clear and practical guidance.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to researching and explaining complex ideas.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.

**Show me the benefits**
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending) Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
- Private health insurance to ensure you're fit in body and mind to do your best work
- We offer _25_ days of holiday + your public holidays
- For our teams we offer remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice We're trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍
- Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work

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**Why join us?**

Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means 'more than you'd expect', and it's been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it's only fitting that we'd pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn't be siloed from the rest of the organisation - they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the fi