FinCrime Analyst
Revolut
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About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 65+ million customers get more from their money every day.
As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.
About The Role
Our Financial Crime team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to prevent financial crime.
We're looking for a FinCrime Analyst to manage our enhanced due diligence processes. You'll analyse complex financial crime cases, manage risks, and make independent decisions that impact Revolut’s risk profile.
To support our 24/7 coverage, this role may include night and weekend shifts, which are fully compensated.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Performing complex investigations into customer activity, utilising transaction monitoring systems to identify red-flag patterns, such as structuring, layering, and unusual cross-border flows
- Conducting deep-dive research using open-source intelligence (OSINT) and adverse media tools to assess the reputational and FinCrime risk associated with high-risk individuals and businesses
- Validating the legitimacy of wealth and fund origins by analysing documentation to ensure they align with the customer’s known profile
- Drafting high-quality suspicious activity reports (SARs) or suspicious transaction reports (STRs) for law enforcement and regulatory bodies, ensuring findings are documented with legal defensibility
- Providing guidance on high-risk onboarding decisions, and recommending client relationship exits when activity falls outside the firm’s risk appetite
- Contributing to the calibration of monitoring rules and threshold settings to reduce false positives while ensuring the detection of evolving criminal typologies
What You'll Need
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Fluency in English (C1+ level)
- 2+ years of FinCrime experience, or 1+ years of experience in AML, FIU, or similar complex investigation fields, where risk-based approach is used
- An understanding of financial crime red flags, typologies, and how to identify them
- Experience redacting and submitting suspicious activity reports
- Experience with investigative methodologies evidenced with previous experience of having used analytical tools (e.g., spreadsheets, filters, pivots, network charts)
- A willingness to work a variety of shift patterns, including nights and weekends
- Critical thinking skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- The ability to multitask, prioritise, and work well under pressure
Nice to have
- A degree in law or STEM
- A professional certification (ICA or ACAMS)
- Fluency in other languages
Key skills/competency
- Financial Crime
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF)
- Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
- Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- Transaction Monitoring
- Risk Management
- Financial Investigations
- Regulatory Compliance
How to Get Hired at Revolut
- Research Revolut's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your FinCrime Analyst resume: Highlight AML/CTF, EDD, and SARs experience with data-driven results.
- Prepare for case study interviews: Practice analyzing financial crime scenarios and proposing legally defensible solutions.
- Showcase analytical skills: Be ready to discuss experience with investigative tools like spreadsheets and network charts.
- Emphasize regulatory knowledge: Demonstrate understanding of financial crime typologies and compliance requirements.
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