Global FinCrime Framework Lead

Trustly; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Job summary

Trustly is seeking a senior financial crime leader to translate policies into practical procedures across the EU, UK and US, ensuring compliant operations and audit-ready documentation. You will drive risk assessments, model governance, and regulatory responses in a fast-growing payments environment.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk and Internal Audit to embed controls from the start and scale the team across multiple locations as needed.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in financial crime compliance or related risk roles with senior leadership in regulated payments/fintech/financial services
• Deep working knowledge of EU, UK and US financial crime regimes and FATF standards
• Track record turning financial crime policy into operational procedures, routines and controls across multiple jurisdictions
• Hands-on experience with model testing, validation and documentation for transaction monitoring, screening or fraud models
• Experience supporting senior management and Boards with financial crime reporting and regulator interactions
• Ability to translate regulation into workable operational controls in a fast-moving, product-led business
• Experience building or scaling a team across several locations
• Degree in Law, Finance, Economics or similar is desirable; CAMS/ICA desirable

Responsibilities

• Turn policy into practice by translating FCP policies into operational procedures with jurisdiction-specific variations
• Keep procedures current by tracking regulatory changes and updating procedures accordingly
• Support enterprise-wide and entity-level financial crime risk assessments and reflect results in procedures and controls
• Govern end-to-end model lifecycle for AML, sanctions and fraud models, including governance, testing, validation and documentation
• Coordinate with AML, Fraud and Onboarding Operations to turn procedures into practical controls
• Define global KRIs and KPIs to monitor financial crime exposure and control effectiveness
• Prepare FCP reports for SAE, executives, and Boards
• Coordinate input to regulator inquiries, examinations and audits and track remediation
• Participate in FCP governance forums and working groups
• Design and build the team structure across EU, UK and US to cover procedures, model governance, risk assessment and reporting
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk and Internal Audit to embed controls in new products and markets

Skills

Financial crime compliance

Regulatory knowledge (EU/UK/US)

Policy to procedures

Model testing & validation

Board/reporting experience

Leadership / building teams

Cross-border governance

Education

Law/Finance degree

CAMS/ICA certification desirable

Job description

Trustly is seeking a senior financial crime leader to translate policies into practical procedures across the EU, UK and US, ensuring compliant operations and audit-ready documentation. You will drive risk assessments, model governance, and regulatory responses in a fast-growing payments environment.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk and Internal Audit to embed controls from the start and scale the team across multiple locations as needed.