Remote-First Financial Crime Assurance Lead

Crane Venture Partners; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £60k

Remote-first (UK)

25 days' holiday

Pension scheme

Private medical

Wellbeing support

Family leave

AI tools

WFH setup support

Job summary

Griffin is a fully regulated UK bank building its financial crime assurance function from the ground up. You will lead independent reviews, thematic deep dives and control testing across the business, reporting to the Head of Assurance with a dotted line to the MLRO for priorities.

This is a remote-first role with UK-wide scope. You’ll shape the function, manage the assurance plan, and collaborate with Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit to embed an effective combined assurance model while

Qualifications

• Assurance, audit or QC experience that includes testing controls.
• Financial crime experience as a reviewer, process owner, consultant, or within a prior assurance role plus solid knowledge of the UK regulatory framework (POCA, SAR obligations, FCA/PRA expectations)
• A track record of raising uncomfortable findings when they're warranted and standing behind them unless new evidence says otherwise
• Experience working in a regulated financial services environment
• The judgement to hold a challenging conversation with the first line without damaging the relationship, and the coordination skills to keep a combined assurance model working smoothly
• A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability (you can find out more here about how we write)

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent assurance reviews, thematic deep dives and control testing across the business, with a focus on financial crime
• Manage the financial crime scope within the assurance plan, agreeing priorities directly with the MLRO, and manage other assurance scope as directed by the Head of Assurance
• Help embed the combined assurance approach with Compliance, Risk, FinCrime and Internal Audit, avoiding overlap while protecting independence
• Set the evidence bar for remediation, checking fixes actually hold rather than just looking closed on paper
• Own and maintain our actions tracker, keeping the backlog moving
• Produce assurance workpapers and reports that stand up to scrutiny, and represent the Head of Assurance at our risk and audit committees (ERCO/BRC) or other governance committees when needed
• Help us mature our testing methodology, templates and tooling as the function grows
• This description reflects what we need today. How you achieve these outcomes, where you focus your energy, how this role evolves—that's for you to define as you learn where our risk sits and where our control and other gaps are.

Skills

Assurance

Audit

QC experience

Financial crime experience

Regulatory knowledge

Clear writing

Education

ICA financial crime / CAMS / IIA

Job description

Griffin is a fully regulated UK bank building its financial crime assurance function from the ground up. You will lead independent reviews, thematic deep dives and control testing across the business, reporting to the Head of Assurance with a dotted line to the MLRO for priorities.

This is a remote-first role with UK-wide scope. You’ll shape the function, manage the assurance plan, and collaborate with Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit to embed an effective combined assurance model while