Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

📍Dublin | 💰€85,000 - €103,500 + share options + Benefits | Hear from the team ✨

⭐ What we’re looking for:

As a Senior Financial Crime Risk Manager who can support our European Risk & Compliance function, you'll play a critical role in ensuring that Monzo Bank Europe implements solutions to comply with our regulatory obligations and effectively manage risk. This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

• Regulatory Engagement: Support the Director of Fraud & Financial Crime Risk (MLRO) in constructive engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland and other regulatory bodies.


• Strategic Oversight: Ensure that First Line of Defence Financial Crime Operations are operating effectively, providing advice and challenge as appropriate.


• Strategic Doer: Combine hands-on execution with strategic thinking to align cross-functional teams with our Financial Crime vision and strategy.


• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Product, Risk, Engineering, Operational and Change teams across Monzo jurisdictions to coordinate and contribute to key initiatives, ensuring alignment across teams.


• Data-Driven Insight and Storytelling: Use data to create compelling presentations and reports that support Financial Crime prioritisation.

🔑 You’ll play a key role by…

• Overseeing and co-ordinating Monzo Bank Europe’s compliance monitoring & assurance activities with colleagues across the three lines of defence.


• Defining Financial Crime requirements for expansion to new jurisdictions and working with Product, Risk and Technical teams to define solutions and deliver these.


• Collaborating across the company to remove roadblocks and solve complex challenges relating to Monzo's EU expansion.


• Supporting the Director of Fraud and Financial Crime Risk (MLRO) in the performance of delegated duties and attendance at key forums/committees.


• Formulating and executing strategic projects aligned with Monzo's EU expansion.

🤩 We'd love to hear from you if…

• You have a depth of expertise in Financial Crime risks and regulatory requirements within banking or payments in Ireland and other EU jurisdictions.


• You are passionate about Financial Crime and protecting Monzo and our customers.


• Are a curious, multi-tasker who thrives in fast-paced, varied environments.


• You have a track record of driving outcomes by building consensus and influence.


• You have strong analytical skills.


• You are a problem solver who takes initiative to create high impact for stakeholders.


• Excel at stakeholder management and coordination across multiple teams.


• Are organised, detail-oriented, and have excellent time management skills.


• Communicate effectively and clearly.

🙌 What’s in it for you

💰💰€85,000 - €103,500 + share options + benefits

📍This role will have a hybrid working model, based in our Dublin office

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

🏝 Annual Leave - 34 days including public holidays (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays)

📚€1,200 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences

🏥 Private healthcare scheme

💰 Pension scheme: the minimum contribution is 4% and Monzo matches any additional contributions that you make up to a maximum of 6%

💛 Wellbeing benefits: financial education, women’s and men’s health support, mental health benefits, including coaching and counselling

🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps

• 30 min call with the Recruiter


• 30 min call with the Hiring Manager


• 2 hours of technical and behavioural interviews


• Final call with senior leadership

This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.