Financial Crime Director | Monzo | Remote (United Kingdom)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re not about selling products – we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62l09nB0M4" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Monzo</a> ✨</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍London OR UK Remote | 💰£110,000 – £160,000 + <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Benefits</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62l09nB0M4" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hear from the team</a> ✨</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">⭐ Our FinCrime team</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re a team of dedicated Financial Crime experts working together to outsmart criminals and keep our customers safe. The team comprises risk experts, engineers, data scientists and machine learning specialists to develop the cutting edge of Financial Crime controls. We’re searching for someone who’s as passionate about safeguarding customers and protecting society as we are.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🔑 You’ll play a key role by…</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Leading a large team of Financial Crime risk experts, responsible for the effective operation of a suite of Fincrime controls. You’ll be at the forefront of innovation, employing the latest technologies to craft detective and preventive tools that respond quickly to threats. With your contributions, we’ll continue to stay several steps ahead of money laundering, terrorist or other criminal activity, ensuring the continued trust and safety of our customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll spend your time setting and executing Financial Crime systems and controls strategy, working in close partnership with multidisciplinary teams across Monzo. You’ll be partnering with third party service providers to deliver cutting edge Financial Crime controls to support Monzo’s safe growth and protect our customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re an exceptional Financial Crime leader, with a career history of leading large teams responsible for managing and developing a broad suite of Financial Crime controls.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You can influence senior stakeholders and have a track record of solving complex problems in multidisciplinary teams.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have a strong track record in developing innovative strategies to combat all types of Financial Crime.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re resilient and comfortable working in a fast paced environment where the day to day job is constantly evolving and changing.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re passionate about Financial Crime and protecting customers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re excited by what we’re doing at Monzo</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🙌What’s in it for you</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">💰£110,000 – £160,000 ➕share options.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">🏡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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">➕ Plus lots more! <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read our full list of benefits</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🌈</strong> <strong class=" font-semibold">The application journey has 4 key steps</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Call with a Monzo Recruiter</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Initial call with the Hiring Manager</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Interview Loop: 2 – 3 competency-based interviews (usually conducted over GoogleMeet)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Final exec Call</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This process should take around 3-6 weeks – your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-on-using-ai-to-ace-an-interview-at-monzo" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">You can read them here.</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to <a href="mailto:business-hiring@monzo.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">business-hiring@monzo.com</a> You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">⏳We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-REMOTE</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#CM-1</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Equal opportunities for everyone</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blog</a>, 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/our-2023-diversity-and-inclusion-report" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Diversity and Inclusion Report</a> and 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/an-update-on-our-gender-pay-gap-2023" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Gender Pay Gap Report.</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don’t need full or birth names at application stage 😊</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re not about selling products – we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62l09nB0M4" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hear from our team about what it’s like working at Monzo</a> ✨</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍London OR UK Remote | 💰£110,000 – £160,000 + <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Benefits</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62l09nB0M4" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Hear from the team</a> ✨</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">⭐ Our FinCrime team</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re a team of dedicated Financial Crime experts working together to outsmart criminals and keep our customers safe. The team comprises risk experts, engineers, data scientists and machine learning specialists to develop the cutting edge of Financial Crime controls. We’re searching for someone who’s as passionate about safeguarding customers and protecting society as we are.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🔑 You’ll play a key role by…</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Leading a large team of Financial Crime risk experts, responsible for the effective operation of a suite of Fincrime controls. You’ll be at the forefront of innovation, employing the latest technologies to craft detective and preventive tools that respond quickly to threats. With your contributions, we’ll continue to stay several steps ahead of money laundering, terrorist or other criminal activity, ensuring the continued trust and safety of our customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll spend your time setting and executing Financial Crime systems and controls strategy, working in close partnership with multidisciplinary teams across Monzo. You’ll be partnering with third party service providers to deliver cutting edge Financial Crime controls to support Monzo’s safe growth and protect our customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re an exceptional Financial Crime leader, with a career history of leading large teams responsible for managing and developing a broad suite of Financial Crime controls.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You can influence senior stakeholders and have a track record of solving complex problems in multidisciplinary teams.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You have a strong track record in developing innovative strategies to combat all types of Financial Crime.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re resilient and comfortable working in a fast paced environment where the day to day job is constantly evolving and changing.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re passionate about Financial Crime and protecting customers.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">You’re excited by what we’re doing at Monzo</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🙌What’s in it for you</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">💰£110,000 – £160,000 ➕share options.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📍This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">🏡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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">➕ Plus lots more! <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Read our full list of benefits</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🌈</strong> <strong class=" font-semibold">The application journey has 4 key steps</strong></p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Call with a Monzo Recruiter</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Initial call with the Hiring Manager</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Interview Loop: 2 – 3 competency-based interviews (usually conducted over GoogleMeet)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Final exec Call</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">This process should take around 3-6 weeks – your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-on-using-ai-to-ace-an-interview-at-monzo" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">You can read them here.</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to <a href="mailto:business-hiring@monzo.com" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">business-hiring@monzo.com</a> You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">⏳We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#LI-REMOTE</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">#CM-1</p>
<hr>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Equal opportunities for everyone</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">blog</a>, 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/our-2023-diversity-and-inclusion-report" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Diversity and Inclusion Report</a> and 2023 <a href="https://monzo.com/blog/an-update-on-our-gender-pay-gap-2023" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Gender Pay Gap Report.</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don’t need full or birth names at application stage 😊</p>