Onboarding Senior Manager

📍 Cardiff | 🏢 3 days per week in the office

Financial Crime / Customer Operations 🚀
Our Financial Crime team is growing quickly along with the company. They work on the front line to protect the company against financial crime such as money laundering and terrorist financing. From screening, onboarding, transaction monitoring through to CDD and EDD, they make decisions that really matter on a daily basis.

What You’ll Be Doing 🗃️

• Lead and develop our high-performing onboarding teams.


• Ensure our team’s adherence to our UK and US regulatory obligations.


• Identify and mitigate operational risk.


• Define and track KPIs and KRIs to measure performance and identify improvement opportunities.


• Managing the day to day onboarding operations including capacity planning, scheduling, training and competency management, SLA management and coaching and developing the teams.


• Improve operations by using technology to streamline processes and enhance customer experience.


• Manage the onboarding team in a fast-paced environment, adapting to change and collaborating across teams.


• Serve as the escalation point for complex cases while staying up to date with regulations, industry best practices, and risk trends.


• Supporting senior management in developing, implementing and communicating operational improvement and change.

Our Values & Culture 🌞

• Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.


• Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.


• Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard.


• Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done.


• Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

We’re Looking For 🔎

• An experienced financial services leader specialising in onboarding due diligence, with a focus on business customers and complex ownership structures.


• An adaptable and pragmatic leader with a hands-on, solutions-driven approach to problem solving.


• A proven track record of leading and motivating high-performing teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments.


• A subject matter expert with deep knowledge of regulatory and legal requirements, and extensive experience in risk assessment and control design and testing.


• An analytical thinker skilled in interpreting complex data and driving evidence-based decision-making.

Interview Process 🤝

• Stage 1: 30 minute chat with a Talent Partner


• Stage 2: 60 minute interview with our Head of Financial Crime


• Stage 3: 60 minute interview with our Customer Operations Director

Diversity & Inclusion 🌈
We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:
🏥 Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
✈️ Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
🎁 Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
👛 Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
🚘 Octopus EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
🏖️ 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
📖 Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
👪 Enhanced Parental Leave
🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme
🚂 Season Ticket Loan
💬 6 free therapy sessions per year
🐶 Dog Friendly Offices
🍫 Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here.