Crime Compliance Manager is responsible for managing the effective execution of Reap's financial crime compliance framework across its operations, ensuring that financial crime risks are appropriately identified, assessed, monitored and mitigated.
The role provides oversight of AML/CFT, sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring, investigations and customer due diligence controls, ensuring consistent application of global standards and adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Crime Compliance Management
- Manage the implementation and day-to-day operation of financial crime compliance controls, policies and procedures.
- Oversee AML/CFT, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and ongoing due diligence processes.
- Ensure consistent application of financial crime standards across products, markets and jurisdictions.
- Identify control gaps and coordinate remediation and continuous improvement initiatives.
2. Transaction Monitoring & Investigations
- Oversee transaction monitoring alerts, investigations and case management to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Review complex or higher-risk financial crime cases and provide guidance on appropriate escalation and mitigation.
- Coordinate suspicious activity escalations and reporting with relevant MLROs and regional Compliance teams.
- Analyse emerging financial crime typologies, trends and suspicious activity patterns.
- Maintain appropriate investigation documentation and audit trails.
3. Customer Due Diligence & Sanctions Compliance
- Provide second-line oversight of customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence and
ongoing monitoring controls.
- Review and escalate high-risk customers, PEPs, sanctions matches and adverse media
findings in accordance with applicable approval frameworks.
- Support customer risk assessments, periodic reviews and remediation programmes.
- Provide financial crime risk guidance on client relationships, partners and new business
activities.
4. Financial Crime Risk & Control Enhancement
- Support financial crime risk assessments covering products, customers, jurisdictions and
transaction activity.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of financial crime controls and recommend improvements.
- Support optimisation of transaction monitoring rules, screening systems and customer
risk-rating methodologies.
- Collaborate with Product, Technology and Operations on automation and process
enhancements.
- Monitor remediation plans arising from control reviews, audits and regulatory findings.
5. Governance, Reporting & Regulatory Compliance
- Prepare financial crime management information, operational performance reports and
key risk indicators.
- Monitor investigation turnaround times, alert backlogs, screening effectiveness and
compliance with operational SLAs.
- Support regulatory examinations, partner reviews, internal audits and independent
financial crime assessments.
- Maintain appropriate records and documentation evidencing control execution and
regulatory compliance.
- Work with local MLROs and regional Compliance teams to ensure jurisdiction-specific
obligations are addressed.
6. Team & Stakeholder Management
- Provide direction, supervision and technical guidance to Financial Crime Compliance
analysts and specialists.
- Monitor team performance, workload allocation, case quality and operational
effectiveness.
- Collaborate with first-line Operations, Product, Risk and regional Compliance
stakeholders.
- Deliver financial crime training and guidance to strengthen awareness and control
effectiveness.
- Drive accountability, consistency and continuous improvement across financial crime
compliance activities.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Finance, Business, Risk Management or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5–8 years of relevant financial crime compliance experience, preferably within
fintech, payments or regulated financial services.
- Strong understanding of AML/CFT, sanctions compliance, transaction monitoring,
customer due diligence and financial crime investigations.
- Experience managing financial crime compliance operations, control frameworks or
investigative teams.
- Familiarity with international financial crime standards, including FATF recommendations
and applicable sanctions regimes.
- Ability to assess financial crime risks associated with cross-border payments, card
programmes and digital financial services.
- Strong analytical, investigative, communication and stakeholder management
capabilities.
- Professional certification such as CAMS or ICA is advantageous.
Key Performance Indicators
- Operational effectiveness: Timely resolution of financial crime alerts, investigations
and escalations against agreed SLAs.
- Investigation quality: Accuracy, consistency and completeness of investigation
outcomes and supporting documentation.
- Control effectiveness: Identification and timely remediation of financial crime control
gaps.
- Risk management: Effective identification, assessment and escalation of higher-risk
activity and relationships.
- Process efficiency: Improvements in case management, monitoring effectiveness,
automation and productivity.
- Governance: Timely and accurate management reporting, regulatory support and audit
remediation.
Core Competencies
- Strong technical financial crime compliance expertise
- Sound risk-based decision-making and professional judgment
- Operational management and execution
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving
- Stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration
- People management and coaching
- Process improvement and technology enablement
- Accountability and attention to detail
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