Money Laundering Reporting Officer (Wealth &Trading)

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 15,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About the role

Our Financial Crime team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to prevent financial crime.

We're looking for a Money Laundering Reporting Officer to oversee our local AML/CFT compliance programme in the UAE. You'll design and lead the future of oversight and compliance by quickly identifying money laundering risks while maintaining systems and controls.

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What you'll be doing

• Maintaining and updating local FinCrime policies and frameworks across Wealth & Trading
• Supporting senior management in defining financial crime risk standards and controls relevant to wealth management, trading, and investment activities
• Providing 2LoD oversight and challenge to the business and 1LoD FinCrime teams across new products, trading activities, client journeys, procedures, processes, and systems
• Ensuring FinCrime risks are appropriately identified, assessed, and mitigated across day-to-day wealth and trading operations
• Supporting the development and delivery of FinCrime training and awareness for relevant employees
• Participating in FinCrime governance committees, providing effective challenge to initiative owners, identifying emerging risks, and recommending appropriate solutions
• Establishing, maintaining, and reviewing risk dashboards and MI to identify activity outside risk appetite and areas requiring further investigation or remediation
• Preparing high-quality reports and insights for senior management, group committees, and the Board, escalating material or high-risk financial crime compliance issues
• Partnering closely with Wealth & Trading, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams to embed effective financial crime controls while supporting business growth and product innovation

What you'll need

• A university degree
• 5+ years of experience in financial crime/compliance within financial markets
• Expertise across AML/CTF, sanctions, KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, risk assessments, and financial crime controls
• To have successfully passed the exams required for a CMA license, including the UAE Financial Rules and Regulations and Combating Financial Crime exams
• A comprehensive understanding of the UAE regulatory environment and key financial crime requirements, with the ability to apply regulatory expectations to wealth and trading activities
• Experience supporting wealth management, trading, capital markets, or investment products, with an understanding of risks across the investment lifecycle
• Experience working in a 2LoD capacity, providing effective challenge and oversight to 1LoD teams and business stakeholders
• Expertise in identifying emerging financial crime risks and control vulnerabilities to provide practical, risk-based recommendations
• The ability to analyse complex data and financial activity to translate findings into clear actions for senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge effectively
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• A professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)
• Experience with SQL

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.

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