Senior Compliance Analyst

Location

London 🇬🇧

London, London

Full time

Hybrid

Compliance & Legal

At Verto, we're on a mission to democratise global finance and empower businesses in Emerging Markets to reach the world. Founded by British-Nigerian entrepreneurs Ola Oyetayo and Anthony Oduu, our roots in Africa provided a firsthand understanding of the significant challenges businesses face with cross-border payments, ranging from illiquid currencies and high fees to slow transactions. This deep-rooted insight is why Africa remains a core focus, as we're committed to bridging the gap between emerging and developed markets and fostering global economic growth.

What started as an FX solution for the Nigerian Naira has evolved into a market-leading platform, enabling thousands of businesses to seamlessly transfer billions of dollars annually.
We believe that where you do business shouldn’t determine your success or ability to scale. We're creating equal access to the easy payment and liquidity solutions that are already a given in developed markets.

We're not alone in realising this crucial need; we're backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, Quona, and MEVP. With Verto receiving the Milken-Motsepe Prize, appearing on CNBCs list of fastest growing UK companies, the Deloitte Fast 50 and Sifted’s fastest-growing UK tech companies, we are building a seamless cross-border payment future.

Join us as we continue to grow and transform global finance.

We are hiring for a Senior Compliance Analyst to help with carrying out duties to ensure we are adhering and keeping up with all our regulatory requirements, including fincrime, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) risk assessment.

• Financial crime investigations: commence investigation of all cases within SLA, conduct investigations and record in line with regulatory requirements and Verto’s procedures

• Transaction monitoring: review alerts, review rules and Investigate customer transactions as part of periodic and event-triggered customer KYC reviews

• Draft Suspicious Activity Report: Escalate confirmed suspicious transactions to MLRO/DMLRO for review

• Develop Compliance Procedures: Understand business risk appetite with compliance and fincrime requirements to develop appropriate frameworks, to include identification of system development requirements and operational process changes

• Governance: Ensure all financial crime policies and procedures are in line with regulation and up to date, flagging any anomalies in current processes

• Request For Information Handling: Responses to Banking partners around transactional queries, providing detailed and articulate responses within agreed SLAs.

• Responding to & handling Fraud alerts & Indemnities.

• Work closely with Verto’s Customer Success team to ensure that responses and updates are provided in a timely, clear and concise manner.

• Ownership and management of the Compliance inbox - linking to Jira tickets where appropriate.

• Minimum 2 years of experience in financial crime analysis or compliance role

• Strong knowledge of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) processes.

• Proficiency in financial crime monitoring tools and systems.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and reporting abilities.

• Certification in financial crime prevention (e.g., CAMS, ICA) is desirable but not mandatory.

• Knowledge and expertise regulations; including Sanctions, fraud, AML controls

• Able to deal with sensitive and confidential information

• Able to manage and prioritise multiple tasks to completion and on time

• Knowledge and understanding of the payments industry and electronic money institutions

• Excellent people and relationship building skills, across all seniority levels

• Analytical, logical and data-driven approach to problem solving

• Initiative-driven individuals who can identify gaps and inefficiencies and self-motivate to enhance processes.

• Proficiency in Jira - desirable

• Familiarity with CIFAS

• Insurance paid by the company

• Health and wellness benefits (with specific added…