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 80+ 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 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 regulatory compliance activities, ensuring adherence to applicable regulatory requirements and internal policiesMaintaining and updating regulatory compliance policies and procedures, ensuring they remain aligned with evolving regulatory requirements and internal standardsAdvising on the identification, remediation, and resolution of regulatory and financial crime-related risk incidentsAssisting the 1LoD with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems, focusing on regulatory compliance and control effectivenessEstablishing, maintaining, and reviewing dashboards regularly to identify areas that might fall outside risk appetite and require further investigationCollaborating with global Regulatory Compliance Managers to ensure local risk management frameworks and processes are aligned with global ones and deliver the intended outcomeIdentifying regulatory issues proactively and recommending remedies to promote compliancePreparing responses to ad hoc regulatory requests, ensuring the highest reporting standards are maintained

What You'll Need

Fluency in English and Spanish10+ years of regulatory compliance, financial crime, or legal services experience in financial servicesExpertise in regulatory compliance across retail and business topics, with a solid understanding of financial crime concepts, such as AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC, and transaction monitoringExperience in compliance risk management within a consultancy, compliance function, or regulatorKnowledge of financial services regulationsAn understanding of global regulatory compliance and anti-financial crime frameworks, regulatory recommendations, risk management best practices, and control arrangementsExperience identifying regulatory risks and potential vulnerabilities, with the ability to advise on efficient remediation and collaborate on financial crime findingsThe ability to analyse data and compliance processes to draw conclusions and make recommendations

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.

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