Financial Crime Officer

Financial Crime Officer (part-time role)

Reporting to: Head of Compliance

Location: Scale Space Building, 1st Floor, 58 Wood Lane, London W12 7RZ (hybrid working options available)

We've been pioneering embedded finance since 2007 and over the years, we've worked in partnership with banks, SaaS providers, payment processors, checkout providers, and even the UK government – providing all they need to offer easy and frictionless revenue-based finance solutions to their SME customers through our API-powered funding platform.

We are in a very exciting period of growth, both within the UK and internationally, with teams based in London, Nottingham, USA and Scandinavia. As we continue to grow we are looking for talented and ambitious individuals to join us to reshape business finance.

We are proud to have been included in The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 as one of the 100 fastest growing FinTechs in the UK for two years running.

Who are we?

This is an incredibly exciting time to join the business and the Legal and Compliance Team and will offer the right candidate a huge breadth of work. We are committed to Team Work and never work in silos as you will be collaboratively supporting Liberis scale during its next exciting phrase.

We are passionate about empowering our people to make a real difference for our customers and for their own careers. We run a variety of initiatives to support our employees' development from lunch and learn sessions to peer mentoring and formal training courses.

This is a great opportunity for someone to take on real responsibility and hugely scaling department and business and to take real ownership of the compliance financial crime area. Career progression is abundant and the successful candidate will have exposure to all senior stakeholders.

Who are you?

• You believe that innovation and compliance are not mutually exclusive.
• You realise the importance of "practicing what we preach": policies are only as good as their actual implementation and oversight
• You are highly organised
• You enjoy collaborating with multiple business functions
• You are curious to join the dots, and really understand the wider context of what the business is doing and where the service is heading, you'll enjoy learning and developing your skills
• You are diligent, focused, with an understanding of financial crime and regulatory risk
• You are ready to step into an independent role and highly solution driven
• You are comfortable giving advice on subjective areas of financial crime work
• You have tenacity and stamina – you will see each project through to the end, using solid organisational skills and attention to detail to achieve the best possible result

Responsibilities

• Provide Financial Crime advice and support to the business (including new product initiatives)
• Manage Financial Crime reporting including global regulatory submissions
• Identify and improve Liberis' financial crime controls
• SARs reporting
• Help maintain Transaction Monitoring and support process enhancements
• Ensure the financial crime controls are robust and adequate for the business operations and make any improvements where required
• Responsible for drafting and implementing financial crime policies and procedures
• Horizon scanning and keeping on top of applicable regulations
• Supporting on financial crime actions following audit / reviews findings
• Support on broader Compliance matters within the team activities and from a central governance perspective

We think you'll need

• Broad knowledge of SME lending and a passion for fintech
• Keen to innovate and build not just listen and follow
• Agile mindset with an ability to manage competing priorities and a fast-paced environment where growth is front and centre
• Specialist in Financial Crime / Fraud
• Strong technical knowledge of financial crime regulations
• Excellent understanding of AML requirements including JMLSG
• Understanding of the FCA framework and oversight requirements
• ICA /ACAMS qualification or equivalent is desirable
• Ideally will have experience of working with Product / Commercial teams to ensure compliant products are developed
• Experience of working with stakeholders across the business
• Exposure to markets outside of the UK would be desirable such as the EU and US

What happens next?

A lot of businesses talk about the importance of diversity and inclusion, at Liberis we want to make sure that we're genuinely fostering a highly inclusive culture that not only welcomes diversity, but celebrates it. Our commitment is not just surface level. We're on a mission to create a safe space where everyone and anyone, regardless of their background, can thrive.

It's not just the right thing to do. We also recognise that diverse teams perform better because we have so much to learn from one another. We think that's pretty cool, and if you do to then you're in the right place.

We have a hive of activity happening around the business to make sure we're always pushing for more. Everyone is encouraged to get involved to help us to continue to build an excellent culture at Liberis.

Think this sounds like the right next move for you? If you're not completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, get in touch! Humility is a wonderful thing and we are interested in hearing about what you can add to Liberis. You can reach us at talent@liberis.co.uk - we look forward to chatting with you!

Please note that unfortunately Liberis is unable to provide visa sponsorship to candidates without full rights to work within the UK (Tier 2 or Tier 5). This is something we are looking in to and hope to be able to offer this option in the future, though kindly request that candidates only apply if they have full rights to work in the UK.