Transaction Monitoring Team Lead

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Railsbank Full time

**About Railsr**

Railsr is a world leading embedded finance experience platform that enables any business to prototype, build and scale financial products. Our vision is to make finance an amazing experience, everywhere in the world, with any brand. With a strong portfolio of clients across the UK, and end-users in the multi millions, Railsr has the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.

Following a successful acquisition by a VC-backed consortium, Railsr is committed to growing its product capabilities, and driving international expansion. It’s an exciting time with enormous potential for companies to use Railsr to power and deliver their customer’s financial experiences.

**The Opportunity**

Building on the growth within the Financial Crime and Compliance function at Railsr recently, we are looking for an experienced Transaction Monitoring Team Leader to lead our global team.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Lead the Global Transaction Monitoring team.
- Drive enhancements in Transaction Monitoring processes that adapt to regulatory changes or emerging industry best practices.
- Support Transaction Monitoring Operations related to controlling risk.
- Responsible for reviewing alerts in our transaction monitoring system.
- Escalating suspicious activity to the investigation team.
- Making recommendations to the business to adapt the compliance program and transaction monitoring system to counter new threats.
- Identifying and proactively managing current and emerging financial crime risks.
- Liaising with the Railsr Customer Success team and the Financial Crime teams of our Customers to investigate suspicious transactions and trends.
- Screening Business Customers and End-users for PEP, Sanctions and Adverse Media.
- Reviewing and assessing quality and accuracy of KYC information collected for business customers, including complex, multi-layered corporate customers.
- Conducting negative news searches and analysing/documenting associated AML/CFT risks.
- Assisting with ad-hoc project work where required.

**Your Profile**

Attitude & Behaviours
- You have strong leadership skills and are passionate about sharing your knowledge to others.
- You have great interpersonal skills and are able to quickly build strong relationships with team members and internal stakeholders.
- You are a team-oriented person, who can facilitate and enable a collaborative environment.

Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 3 years of related experience with a financial services institution in a financial crime or compliance team lead role.
- Experienced in card related fraud and AML.
- You are a quick learner who enjoys challenging work.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and are able to talk easily to people at all levels of your organisation.

**What we can offer you**:

- ** Purpose**:

- Help make amazing embedded finance experiences accessible to everyone and transform global financial services.
- **Career** - Build your career in an innovative, adventurous and inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to make a difference and develop their skills.
- **Reward** - Competitive remuneration package with generous benefits and the potential to be rewarded with equity.
- **People** - Work with talented, passionate and supportive people from all over the world in a flexible, hybrid environment with trust and mutual respect at its heart.

**Our Values**

The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic, underpinned by a clear set of values that drive a healthy and successful culture.
- ** Ambition** - for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it.
- **Trust -** which we give freely and expect in return.
- **Curiosity -** with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement.
- **Customer Obsession -** ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.

If you are eager to join a fast-paced, collaborative and inclusive company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.

**Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging



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