Financial Crime Assurance Analyst

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses
, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.

GoCardless processes US $130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries
; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments
, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks
, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.

We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds
, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.

At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you
! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible
. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!

And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role,
we encourage you to apply!

The Financial Crime Assurance Analyst is a key role that reports directly into the Group MLRO and will be responsible for operating the second line oversight framework. The role will be responsible for monitoring and testing our financial crime risk controls, working with our auditors to ensure that audit reviews go smoothly, and will be responsible for driving closure of open issues.

This is a hands‑on role that has both a long‑term, strategic focus as well as getting the day-to-day things done.

• Providing assurance of our financial crime risk controls through regular testing, thematic reviews, targeted deep‑dive reviews, and data analysis — assessing adequacy of GoCardless’ financial crime policies, procedures and systems.
  • Planning, preparing, and executing the end-to-end annual Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring program.
  • Drafting reports that outline findings and corresponding action plans to mitigate issues found during reviews.
  • Pulling, and then slicing and dicing large data (advanced Excel, SQL etc.) to identify and monitor risk indicators.
• Managing and/or overseeing day-to-day regulatory/external/internal exams related to financial crime — including preparation, coordination, and response activities.
• Logging and tracking to completion of assurance, audit, self‑identified and other related risks and issues, to validate remediation efforts, as well as escalating to relevant stakeholders where appropriate.
• Supporting the development, introduction and completion of project and business solutions to resolve any financial crime related matters.
• Delivering targeted financial crime training and conducting root cause "lessons learned" sessions for the Compliance Operations and Sales teams to drive continuous improvement in areas identified during reviews.
• Developing cross‑functional skills within the global team and demonstrating a proactive willingness to support, own, and execute tasks from start to finish.
• Supporting the wider Regulatory Compliance Assurance team as required, providing insight and assistance to ensure firm‑wide adherence to evolving regulatory standards globally.

• Have an understanding of financial crime risks and controls, especially have knowledge of ML/TF/Sanctions risk, KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, and screening.
• Have at least two to four years’ experience in an assurance-based role (e.g. audit, compliance monitoring, model validation); and are comfortable with assessing the design and operating effectiveness of controls.
• Are organised and have an ability to recommend practical remediations and track issues to closure.
• Excellent project and stakeholder management.
• Have objective verbal and writing skills to write and communicate clear and concise assurance reports which are accessible to non-financial crime experts.
• Deliver targeted presentations that succinctly report on the effectiveness of our issue management process.
• Understanding of financial crime model calibration — knowledge of fuzzy matching logic and ‘tuning’ testing including AtL and BtL testing.

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