Financial Crime Analyst - Police Requests (Maternity Cover - FTC)
Team Railsr
United Kingdom
Published 1 week ago
Financial Crime and Compliance
Fixed Term Contract
Financial Crime Analyst (Maternity Cover - FTC)
About Railsr
Railsr is the world's leading global embedded finance experience platform that gives customers the ability to prototype, build and scale financial products. Railsr is in growth mode with hundreds of clients globally, end-users in the multi millions, Venture Capital funding from top firms like Clocktower Ventures and Visa and the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.
Railsr is continuing to grow its product capabilities and international expansion. It's an extremely exciting time and the potential for companies to use Railsr to power and deliver their customer's financial experiences is enormous.
The Opportunity
This role will focus around the firm's Fraud & Police Requests activities.
As a Financial Crime Analyst you will be responsible for assisting the financial crime team leader in a number of duties focused on supporting the business to improve and evolve its AML framework, particularly in the police and law enforcement communications, SARs and Fraud work.
You may also be required to assist other areas of the business, conduct reviews of customers fraud and money laundering risk as and when required. You are expected to manage tasks and projects with a data-driven and holistic approach.
The position is a mix between working in Railsr offices in London and remotely. This role reports into the Financial Crime Manager
Responsibilities:
Attitude & Behaviours
Purpose, Vision & Journey
Being an integral part of the Railsr team and sharing our values is important to us. The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic. It suits people who love to collaborate and support one-another. We are all driven by the same values and are looking to welcome new people to the team who share these values.
Our values are: ambition for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it, trust which we give freely and expect in return, treating each other as adults, curiosity with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement and customer obsession ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.
If you are eager to join a thriving, fast-paced, high growth company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Our global team is amazing - they bring great ideas, drive new plans and help make Railsr a fantastic place to work. In the last year, we've doubled in size, with over 400 colleagues spread over multiple countries and more than 30 languages spoken. As we grow, we're committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of our customers and communities is critical. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups. Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure Railsr's recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on jobs@railsr.com to discuss specific requirements.
About Railsr
Railsr is the world's leading global embedded finance experience platform that gives customers the ability to prototype, build and scale financial products. Railsr is in growth mode with hundreds of clients globally, end-users in the multi millions, Venture Capital funding from top firms like Clocktower Ventures and Visa and the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.
Railsr is continuing to grow its product capabilities and international expansion. It's an extremely exciting time and the potential for companies to use Railsr to power and deliver their customer's financial experiences is enormous.
The Opportunity
This role will focus around the firm's Fraud & Police Requests activities.
As a Financial Crime Analyst you will be responsible for assisting the financial crime team leader in a number of duties focused on supporting the business to improve and evolve its AML framework, particularly in the police and law enforcement communications, SARs and Fraud work.
You may also be required to assist other areas of the business, conduct reviews of customers fraud and money laundering risk as and when required. You are expected to manage tasks and projects with a data-driven and holistic approach.
The position is a mix between working in Railsr offices in London and remotely. This role reports into the Financial Crime Manager
Responsibilities:
- You will be responsible for being the point of contact for assisting police and law enforcement agencies with the ongoing inquiries, offering guidance and direction in carrying out large investigations. This may involve using a variety of different systems and platforms including CIFAS, UK Finance and our own internal platforms.
- Translate data into fraud trends and see the hidden story behind it.
- Communicate efficiently and clearly - the ideal candidate will be confident in delivering training sessions to multiple different areas of the business. You will also have good presentation skills, Be ensuring that training is engaging and memorable.
- Carry out risk assessments where required. Your role will be dependent on taking risk based approaches with justification, therefore you will need to be able to measure risk appropriately.
- Retrieves and reviews financial transactions to identify activity commensurate with customer relationships that pose a higher risk of money laundering or terrorist financing.
- Demonstrates proficiency in research and investigative practices associated with an experienced analyst and assess customers for BSA risk and assign risk rating.
- Conducts periodic reviews of daily work from all groups by random sampling to test for accuracy, timeliness and completion, and reports results to management.
- Assist with data entry of SAR filing information and SAR writing.
- Conduct proactive and reactive AML Investigations.
- Investigate PEPs, Sanctions and adverse media alert escalations.
- Be a strategist - you will be required to direct operational members of staff in groups, therefore you will need to be able to assign certain tasks to team members to deliver in a correct and efficient manner.
Attitude & Behaviours
- Be a team player. As you will be at the forefront of key decision making you will need to work with many different stakeholders. This will require you to respect and listen to their points of view
- Be comfortable working as an individual and taking ownership of your tasks
- Have a previous experience in working in e-money and similar FI Fintech platforms.
- Previous experience in financial crime and compliance; ideally interaction with the police and law enforcement agencies.
- Have previous experience with large investigations. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to direct and carry out investigations involving multiple persons.
- A strong background in using basic IT platforms.
- Have a minimum 2 years of experience in financial crime in e-money or banking sector
Purpose, Vision & Journey
- At Railsr, our vision is to make finance an amazing experience everywhere and accessible to everyone in the world.
- We are truly customer obsessed and adventurous in designing the world's best embedded finance experience platform to power our customers creating magic finance moments for their consumers.
- Join us and be a part of a team who are challenging and changing the global financial services industry.
- We're a lean, fast-growing, ambitious and agile global FinTech company. It's the perfect environment for you, if you enjoy a challenge, variety, thrive in ambiguity and most importantly, want to deliver real impact.
- We're committed to innovation and development and this starts with our people. You are empowered to drive your own professional development and grow your skills.
- Beyond a competitive remuneration package, every Railsr employee gets equity. You will be part of an inclusive ownership model which offers accountability and significant reward potential.
- We look after your well-being with locally competitive benefits which can include enhanced parental leave, private medical, pension and more.
- Our teams work from different places to create amazing embedded finance solutions for our customers. We embrace flexible and hybrid working, but always putting our teams and customers needs first. This is part of our high-trust and mutual respect approach; with the expectation that we treat people as individuals and with respect.
- You will join and work with an international team with incredible passion and expertise in the FinTech industry.
Being an integral part of the Railsr team and sharing our values is important to us. The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic. It suits people who love to collaborate and support one-another. We are all driven by the same values and are looking to welcome new people to the team who share these values.
Our values are: ambition for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it, trust which we give freely and expect in return, treating each other as adults, curiosity with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement and customer obsession ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.
If you are eager to join a thriving, fast-paced, high growth company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Our global team is amazing - they bring great ideas, drive new plans and help make Railsr a fantastic place to work. In the last year, we've doubled in size, with over 400 colleagues spread over multiple countries and more than 30 languages spoken. As we grow, we're committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of our customers and communities is critical. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups. Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure Railsr's recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on jobs@railsr.com to discuss specific requirements.