Interim Head of Anti-financial Crime

2 weeks 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**

As Interim Head of AFC Operations you will be responsible for the design and on-going management of the Fraud and AML frameworks, which includes the ownership of strategy and accountability for optimising anti-financial crime operations as well as building all procedures and processes for both functions.

You will also be required to support the build out and refinement of key systems such as PEPS and Sanctions screen tools, card fraud prevention tools and AML transaction monitoring tools.

**Your Responsibilities**:

- Build a framework for financial crime, Anti Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) and sanctions compliance & controls.
- Provide advice on AML, CTF and Sanctions obligations and embed the processes into the new operation.
- Manage AML compliance with analytics and scoring tools built in-house.
- Recognise key risk indicators and proactively resolve recurring issues and streamline processes.
- Coordinate the onboarding and inflight process, including the collection of customer/client information required to complete the due diligence profile (at varying risk levels).
- Handle decision-making associated with PEP, Sanction & Enforcement alerts at onboarding and in-life.
- Maintain knowledge of all applicable Financial Crime legislation, regulatory changes and industry best practice.
- Work closely with the 2nd line on due diligence, PEPs, sanction and enforcement matters including liaison with the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer.
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders across the business to meet role objectives and deliver key activities.
- Provide management analysis and commentary for AML & Fraud performance, trends, issues, and actions.
- Build a framework for Fraud Management Compliance & control.
- Manage all non-modelling requirements for fraud management.
- Construct policy/strategy and executional needs for a fraud management program and assist with its development, sizing, and execution
- Support fraud governance and fraud reporting requirements (policy compliance, performance vis-à-vis guardrails and benchmarks, ensure accuracy and promptness of reporting processes).
- Provide strong technical and financial crime regulatory guidance and knowledge on how to mitigate and control for risk to internal and external stakeholders and take accountability for delivery for the Card part of Railsr’s business.

**Your Profile**

Skills & Experience
- Strong knowledge across all areas of the UK financial crime regulatory regime including AML, CTF, Sanctions, PEPs, ABC and tax evasion.
- Track record in building out technical solutions to support a financial crime framework.
- Proven track record of seeking out opportunities for delivering change for continuous improvement in the fraud and AML sector.
- Experience of developing rules for fraud and AML.
- Experience of working with the FCA.
- Knowledge and experience of Operations, including process optimisation and performance efficiencies.

**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 it

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