Monzo
Senior Financial Crime Investigator, Business Banking, EU (Spanish and English Speaking) 🚀
Job Summary
This role involves investigating complex high-risk anti-money laundering alerts on business accounts, with responsibilities including making risk-based decisions on onboarding and conducting ongoing due diligence. The candidate should have experience in financial crime investigations, strong communication skills in English and Spanish, and a knowledge of the UK and EU financial crime landscape. The position is remote-based within the UK, requires working hours from 9am to 5:30pm, Monday to Friday, with some weekend work. Benefits include share options, a learning budget, remote work support, and additional time-off perks.
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Job Description
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.
We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.
After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.
With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!
We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️
Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo ✨
Remote in the UK 🇬🇧 | 💰 £29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) Benefits | Hear from the team ✨
👋 Hey there! We're Monzo, the bank that's making money work for everyone. We're all about waving goodbye to old-school banking and creating magical moments for our customers. We're expanding in the EU and need awesome Senior Investigators to lead the charge!
🔑You’ll play a key role by...
- Investigating complex or high-risk anti-money laundering alerts on business accounts.
- Responsible for recommending Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) be by Monzo Bank EU.
- Making business onboarding decisions in high-risk or complex cases.
- Conducting ongoing due diligence on high-risk business accounts.
- Providing financial crime expertise and support to other operational teams across the business.
🤩We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have strong English written and verbal communication skills.
- You are Fluent in Spanish both written and verbal communication skills (to at least CEFR C1 level).
- You have strong experience of conducting high-risk business banking screening or complex business financial crime investigations.
- You have experience making independent, risk-based financial crime decisions in a regulated financial services firm.
- You have knowledge of the current financial crime landscape in the UK and the EU, and associated financial crime risks.
The working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 9am-5.30pm and one in four weekends. The start for the role will be Monday 4th August and you must be able to commit to the first 8 weeks no holidays/time off will be authorised during this period.
🙌 What’s in it for you
💰£29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) ➕share options.
🎂 We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period.
📍 This role is remote based in the UK
📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.
🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.
➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
🌈 Ready to join the Monzo adventure?
Apply now and help us make money work for everyone in the EU!
The application journey has 4 key steps
- Application questions
Recruiter call - Should you be successful in your application, you will be invited to a 60-minute interview to discuss your previous experience and technical knowledge.
- The final step will consist of a Spanish language assessment.
Please note you should submit your own application without help from other sources e.g Others/ChatGPT any applications whereby external support has been provided will be disqualified. Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us via [email protected]
The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd June 2025 at 9am.
#LI-REMOTE #LI-DR
Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊
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