Blockchain Jobs in United Kingdom

Workplace Type: Remote
Company HQ: London, UK
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: Competitive

We are looking for someone who has at least 3 years of experience working with a fintech and monitoring monetary transactions. They should have knowledge of Compliance/AML standards that need to be followed by UK/EU-regulated financial services companies.

Responsibilities:

• As the 1st Line of Defence work with the Financial Crime team (2nd line of defence) to uncover trends, themes and typologies and ensure that the Fraud Risk and Transaction Monitoring team is managing those risks
• Provide expert and strategic advice to the business, to enable it to operate in line with all relevant regulatory and legislative requirements in relation to Financial Crime and ensure timely completion and filing of internal and external SARs in line with applicable regulatory requirements
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to implement, test and roll-out new transaction monitoring transactions, screening third-party vendor solutions, and design alerts, workflows, etc.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to constantly improve and evolve the systems, for example refining the transaction monitoring rules to reduce false positives and catch more suspicious activity
• Deliver the highest level of service to customers, whilst balancing this with managing the financial crime risk
• Be the subject matter expert (SME), providing ongoing training and continuously sharing knowledge with the team
• Manage the team of analysts, and ensure they have ongoing training and maintain a high level of quality
• Manage and oversee individual and team KPIs and OKRs
• Evaluate and, where necessary, improve processes, in accordance with company policies, to ensure that the company meets rigorous financial crime standards, whilst increasing efficiency where possible
• Work closely with the MLRO, 1st line of defence KYC/KYB team, the Finance Operations and Treasury teams, and 2nd line of defence Financial Crime team to ensure the company adheres to its policies and regulatory requirements

Requirement/Qualification

• 5 years of experience, 3 of which in a similar position for an EMI e-wallet issuer and have experience in dealing with various types of transactions (bank wires, transfers, card payments, etc.),
• Ability to work with other business functions and being proactive
• Enthusiastic about collaborating in the development of cutting edge AI tools and technology (e.g. deep learning, etc)
• Interest in Fintech along with experience
• Familiarity with control environments and their challenges
• Experienced in project management
• Good English communication skills
• Ideally, is able to work/overlap with GMT hours

Note: Criminal record check is part of the hiring process for this role.

Merge focuses on Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Financial Technology, and Blockchain / Cryptocurrency. Their company has offices in Europe and London. They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees. To date, Merge has raised $9.5M of funding; their latest round was closed on May 2022.

You can view their website at https://www.mergedup.com or find them on LinkedIn.