farfetch - Principal, Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance
Requirements
• Experienced in progressive experience in Compliance, with strong exposure to AML, sanctions, or financial crime risk management and related compliance domains. Certifications like CAMS and CGSS is a plus. • Experienced in designing and scaling compliance programs across multiple jurisdictions and compliance areas. • Strong understanding of global regulatory frameworks related to AML, sanctions, and Product related compliances. • Familiarity with ESG and sustainability reporting; CSRD experience is a plus. • Proven ability to build intelligence-driven monitoring programs and high-quality control environments. • Skilled stakeholder manager with excellent communication and influence capabilities. • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with complex global regulatory expectations. • Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and capable of driving cross-functional initiatives at senior levels.
Responsibilities
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program • Design and lead AML frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, including Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, and Suspicious Transaction Reporting. • Establish consistent governance standards, documentation requirements, and operational controls to ensure regulatory alignment across markets. • Identify emerging AML risk typologies and direct the development of monitoring rules, analytic methods, and escalation criteria. • Sanctions Compliance Management • Lead global sanctions screening for new and existing partners/customers and ensure compliance with U.S., U.K., E.U., and other applicable sanctions regimes. • Oversee sanctions system configuration, alert review procedures, and escalation protocols to maintain screening accuracy and defensibility. • Provide guidance to business teams on sanctions implications for customers, products, and market expansion. • Regulatory and Product Compliance • Develop and enforce a robust compliance framework to ensure relevant controls are in place to comply with regional safety, labelling, and certification standards (e.g., CE, UKCA, or INFORM Act) across a multi-jurisdictional marketplace. • Collaborate with business and legal teams to define restricted-item policies and automated gatekeeping/blocking mechanisms for high-risk product groups. • Cross-Functional Compliance Support • Provide support across adjacent compliance domains including ESG reporting. • Support design and operation of monitoring mechanisms for fraud, seller abuse, or related risk indicators, coordinating with internal functions as needed.
Benefits
• Employee Pension Scheme - Flexible Benefits Program - Health Insurance & Critical Illness cover - Flexible work environment- Hybrid Model (3 days a week from the office, 2 days from home) • ## EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT & SCAM DISCLAIMER • EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT- Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. • SCAM DISCLAIMER- It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.
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