Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager

Revolut; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut is seeking a Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager to help enhance finance and risk management processes and keep customers and the business safe. You will contribute to building a scalable assurance program, leveraging data analytics and automated testing to drive stronger controls across multiple jurisdictions.

The role emphasizes designing testing frameworks, performing assurance reviews, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance while supporting

Qualifications

• 3+ years in financial crime risk within fintech or financial services.
• Experience in assurance, internal/external audit focusing on risk and compliance.
• Experience in controls, risk, and policy testing.
• Strong stakeholder engagement to hold the 1LoD accountable for regulatory matters.
• Experience interrogating large data sets to identify actionable insights.
• Results-driven, pragmatic, and detail-oriented.
• Interest in deepening knowledge of compliance.
• Experience creating or using test scripts/procedures.
• ACAMS and/or ICA qualifications.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with the design and implementation of the compliance testing and assurance programme, including risk-based assessment, control testing, and assurance plan.
• Completing assurance reviews and testing activities, leveraging advanced data analytics.
• Establishing automated queries and dashboards to drive testing and insights.
• Contributing to compliance processes by improving regulatory adherence and company standards.
• Executing project plans to address remediation efforts and testing findings, including documentation and training.
• Driving execution of local or multi-jurisdictional reviews with management reporting on outcomes.
• Challenging colleagues to build efficient risk management controls and processes.
• Using data analytics to identify actionable insights and enhancements to the control environment.

Skills

Financial crime

Regulatory risk

Audit experience

Controls testing

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

ACAMS

ICA

English fluency

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

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 80+ 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 13,000+ 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 Compliance 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 manage conduct risk.

We’re looking for a Financial Crime Compliance Assurance Manager who’ll help us improve finance and risk management processes to keep customers and the business safe.

What you’ll be doing

• Assisting with the design and implementation of the compliance testing and assurance programme, including the risk-based compliance assessment, control testing, and assurance plan
• Completing assurance reviews and testing activities, leveraging skills in advanced data analytics
• Establishing automated queries and dashboards to drive more frequent testing and informative insights
• Contributing to compliance processes by identifying opportunities for improved adherence to regulatory requirements and company standards
• Executing project plans to address remediation efforts and testing review findings, including process updates, documentation, and/or training
• Driving execution of multiple local or multi-jurisdictional reviews, including subsequent management reporting related to review outcomes and findings
• Challenging colleagues to build efficient, world‑class risk management controls and processes
• Using data analytics to identify actionable insights, which result in material enhancements to the control environment

What you’ll need

• 3+ years of experience working on financial crime risks within a fintech, traditional financial institution, or regulatory body
• Relevant experience in assurance or internal/external audit, focusing on risk and compliance domains
• Experience in controls, risk, and policy and procedure testing
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills to hold the 1LoD accountable for regulatory compliance matters
• Experience interrogating large data sets to identify actionable insights
• To be results‑driven, pragmatic, and have a detailed‑oriented approach
• An interest in compliance and willingness to deepen your knowledge
• Experience creating or utilising test scripts/procedures
• Relevant financial crime and compliance qualifications, such as ACAMS and ICA
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• Experience in payment screening, regulatory reporting, SAR filing, and external enquiries
• Knowledge of sanction and PEP regulations
• Expertise in rule‑based or model‑based AML transaction monitoring, threshold tuning, and below‑the‑line testing
• Experience identifying and preventing onboarding risks for retail (KYC) and business (KYB) customers
• Experience assessing risks or reviewing FCA regulations and EU AML directives
• Experience designing, implementing, or testing customer risk scoring and segmentation
• Data analytics skills using SQL and/or Python

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard‑working team.