Griffin - Fincrime Assurance Associate
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Requirements
• This description reflects what we need today. How you achieve these outcomes, where you focus your energy, how this role evolves—that's for you to define as you learn what our customers need and where our technical gaps are. • To ensure this, we're looking for people who have: • Experience working in financial crime compliance — ideally in an audit, assurance, oversight, or monitoring capacity, with hands-on review experience rather than purely advisory or policy work. • Hands-on experience conducting financial crime audit or assurance reviews or assessments, including reviewing control frameworks and identifying gaps. • Experience with writing reports and recommendations on the back of audit or assurance reviews. • A solid understanding of financial crime controls: AML, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring, SARs, QA/QC and end-to-end onboarding and ongoing customer journeys. • Confidence managing external relationships and having direct, sometimes difficult conversations with customers. • Strong organisational skills and an analytical mindset — you'll be juggling reviews at different stages and spotting issues that aren't always obvious. • A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write ) • Ideally, you would also: • Have familiarity with the different onboarding models within embedded finance a DC can use (managed, reliance, or outsourced) and how they affect the scope and depth of review. • Hold a relevant financial crime qualification such as an ICA diploma, or have experience presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
• To Do This You’ll Own • The assurance review schedule as the DC book grows, keeping risk ratings accurate and ensuring each customer receives the right level of scrutiny. • The review and closing out post-live conditions for newly onboarded DCs where applicable. • Issuing assurance review requests, including scoping the right questions and sample requests based on entity type, operating model, and risk rating. • In-depth reviews of DC responses, identifying gaps and weaknesses in their financial crime controls. • The production of formal review reports with clear findings and a recommendation on whether a DC's risk rating should be maintained, increased, or decreased. • Drafting and issuing recommendations to DCs, then tracking and following up until full closure is confirmed. • The engagement with external stakeholders, including CEOs, MLROs, Compliance Managers, especially when sharing difficult findings or recommendations.
Benefits
• We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future. • Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere in the UK • Remote-first flexibility: • Work from abroad: Up to 20 days a year • Work from abroad: • Time off: 25 days’ holiday, bank holidays and a winter break (we shut down between Christmas and New Year) • Time off: • Pension: Auto-enrolment into our Penfold scheme • Pension: • Insurance: Private medical with Bupa (including family cover) and life insurance with AIG • Insurance: • Wellbeing: 1:1 coaching and therapy session available through Oliva • Wellbeing: • Family leave: Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months on full pay after two years’ service • Family leave: • AI tools: Everyone has a Claude subscription on us and access to other premium tools • AI tools: • Your setup: We’ll support you in creating a comfortable and effective WFH environment. • Your setup: • As a bank, we’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of security. This means that the successful candidate will need to complete background screening, and our offer will be conditional upon satisfactory review of these checks. This would include verification of right to work, criminal record, credit history, social media and professional reference checks • How do I apply? • Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through what happens next. • We’re remote-first • We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full-time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there's no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it. • Under representation • Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you. • Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team. • Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.
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