The Fincrime Operations team
The Operations team at Griffin is the mindful engine room, driving our success. We strive to bring joy to our customers, both internal and external, through systems that just work.
We place significant emphasis on compassion, ownership and curiosity. You will be empowered to make meaningful decisions and supported to make sure we collectively get those decisions right.
As one of the first members of the fincrime operations team, you’ll be shaping and delivering exceptional fincrime systems and controls. You'll be helping us build and run a truly resilient bank that centres around bringing value to our customers.
Who are you
The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:
- Strong knowledge of AML, CTF and fraud regulations, as well as industry best practice in what great looks like for financial crime control implementation
- Experience working within a regulated financial service in the UK, ideally a fintech, challenger bank , correspondent banking or consultancy firm
- Great stakeholder management to work both closely with all other parts of the business and to represent Griffin externally to clearly and effectively articulate our financial crime requirements.
- Adept at navigating tough conversations and managing client expectations
- A first principles and growth mindset and diving deep into source regulation, analysing it, and applying it to understand how Griffin’s client is running their financial crime framework and how this aligns to ours
- Experience building and managing a financial crime team
- Comfort with solo execution - we’re a small team so you'll need to be happy rolling up your sleeves
We’re hybrid-remote, and most of your colleagues will not share an office with you on a day-to-day basis. This means you should also have:
- A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication.
- 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 )
Nice to haves
We’d be thrilled if you also have experience in:
- Working with complex and large corporate clients
- Developing intelligent and scaleable ways to support clients whilst managing associated financial crime risks
- Taking operational insights from business as usual activity and translating them into actions when reviewing other clients financial crime frameworks
- Experience working within an assurance type of role
- Baas experience would be a bonus!
What will you be doing here?
As a reliance manager at Griffin, you will...
- Conducting assurance reviews into our clients to meet our regulatory obligations
- Responsible for ongoing integrity of our client’s financial crime risk and controls framework
- Ongoing communication with clients to track development and remediation of assurance findings from reviews conducted
- Ensuring client’s are in line with emerging regulatory changes
- Establishing a framework for ongoing review that is consistent, efficient and scaleable, in addition to always being audit ready
- Plan and prioritise the review schedule and manage capacity required to deliver it
- Working closely with the onboarding team to assist with client onboarding