FinCrime Strategy & Detection Lead

Morse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Morse is seeking a Financial Crime Strategy and Product Lead to own the roadmap for detecting and preventing fraud, money laundering, and sanctions risk across markets. You will set strategy, work with product/engineering to build tooling, and partner with compliance to manage activity on the platform.

This data-driven operator role blends deep threat analysis with scalable detection systems, requiring collaboration across product, engineering, data, and operations.

Qualifications

• You are a data-driven decision-maker who interrogates data to find patterns.
• You have a strong working knowledge of financial crime and fraud typologies.
• You can lead detailed analysis into suspected fraud and translate findings into detection logic.
• You have built or shaped financial crime capabilities, possibly with product collaboration.
• You can own delivery, roadmap, and priorities across multiple teams.
• You communicate risk and trade-offs clearly to technical and senior stakeholders.
• You are familiar with regulatory environments in the US, EU, and/or UK.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial crime roadmap and translate regulatory obligations into a buildable plan.
• Manage rulesets and controls using data to guide what to ship, tune, or retire.
• Define requirements for fraud and AML detection systems with engineering.
• Lead deep-dive investigations into suspected fraud and quantify exposure.
• Turn threats into countermeasures with scalable detection logic and controls.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, operations, and compliance across the company.
• Define metrics and build reporting that shows risk and performance to leadership.

Skills

Data analytics

Investigation

Financial crime knowledge

Product strategy

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Regulatory familiarity

Tools

SQL

Job description

Morse is seeking a Financial Crime Strategy and Product Lead to own the roadmap for detecting and preventing fraud, money laundering, and sanctions risk across markets. You will set strategy, work with product/engineering to build tooling, and partner with compliance to manage activity on the platform.

This data-driven operator role blends deep threat analysis with scalable detection systems, requiring collaboration across product, engineering, data, and operations.