Transaction Monitoring & Sanctions Team-lead

DIFC Dubai

Hybrid working: up to 2 remote working days weekly

We're looking for a talented Transaction Monitoring Team-lead to join our global team in one of the UK's fastest-growing FinTech scale-ups.

Our mission 3S Money is reinventing international business banking. Founded in 2018, our mission is to help growing businesses send, receive and exchange money in over 190 countries. With offices in five countries and over 200 employees across three different locations, you'll be joining a high-energy, high-impact team that's achieved profitability and has a wealth of opportunity ahead.

Our culture At 3S Money, we believe in caring personally, staying curious and making an impact through collaboration not competition. Our culture is genuinely transparent with minimal hierarchy and a commitment to each employee's professional growth.

Your contributions will actively matter, and you'll be a respected part of the team from day one.

The role

• Performing AML transaction monitoring and Sanctions screening activities.
• Manage the small global Sanctions focused team for day-to-day support and long-term development (setting targets, tracking performance, engaging our staff)
• Perform investigations on alerts generated by the firm's AML monitoring platform.
• Where required, produce Unusual Activity Reports (UARs)
• Review screening alerts to identify and assess any business relationships that may be subject to Sanctions, PEPs and financial Crime concerns.
• Ensure adherence to local and global compliance policies and procedures
• Stay up to date with AML related news and regulatory developments
  
  
  

Must-haves You are an experienced professional working in the financial services sector, demonstrable knowledge of industry standards and best practice and the UK and EU AML regulatory frameworks. In addition:

• Knowledge of global sanctions regimes such as, UK, US, EU & UN
• Management experience, ideally leading an international team
• Proven track record of working in an AML/CTF investigations role
• Understanding of international ML/TF and sanctions typologies
• Willingness to learn Compliance processes and develop skills at a fast pace
• CAMS / ICA certification is a big plus
• Experience with data/trends analysis is a plus
• Experience in FinTech or start-up experience is strongly preferred
• Great communication skills, articulating simply, but in detail the elements of onboarding due diligence assessment, including making recommendations on further course of action and being ready to explain your rationale (and if needed defend it) with internal stakeholders.
• Fluent English with another language as a bonus but not necessary.
  
  
  

In return for your hard work:

Competitive salary depending on experience + benefits + share options in the business at your 1st anniversary

Hybrid working setup in our wonderful city-centre office

We foster non-BAU projects in our team, we want you to explore new avenues and expand your expertise to benefit your professional pathway & our teams.

And much, much more....

Our commitment to you

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. Our passion and focus will always be to work with the best people. We're creating services for everyone, so it's imperative we work with everyone. Our diverse team has been the foundations to our success in building more efficient products, making better decisions and establishing an all-inclusive place to work. Applicants of all backgrounds are hugely encouraged to apply and discover the 3S way.

In the ever-changing FCC landscape for the international markets we cover, we have a responsibility to our employees to provide constant up-skilling relevant to the role and your career with us. Aside from our usual on-boarding and training programmes, we have a list of ICA certifications pre-approved and ready to offer our new starters. Outside of this, across all our departments, we actively encourage our employees' professional interests in attending conferences, networking events or webinars.

Department Financial Crime & Compliance Locations Dubai Remote status Hybrid Remote Employment type Full-time