Financial Crime Compliance Manager (Sanctions)

Revolut; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut is seeking a Financial Crime Compliance Manager in Houston, Texas. This role involves monitoring regulatory changes, drafting FinCrime policies, and overseeing sanction frameworks to ensure compliance and mitigate risks. With a focus on sanctions and terrorism financing, the ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in financial compliance, effective stakeholder management skills, and fluency in English. A professional qualification and knowledge of financial services products are desirable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in FinCrime with retail and business customers.
• Expertise in identifying financial crime risks and vulnerabilities.
• A track record of effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Monitor sanction regulatory changes and assess their impact.
• Draft and update FinCrime policies related to sanctions.
• Oversee the sanction screening framework and tool parameters.
• Advise on complex sanction cases and report to authorities.
• Contribute to the internal control framework, including risk assessments.
• Support FinCrime training for employees.

Skills

Experience in FinCrime (sanctions and/or terrorism financing)

Understanding of financial services products

Expertise in sanctions regulations

Knowledge of sanction screening tools

Stakeholder management

Fluency in English

Education

Professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)

Job description

About Revolut

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 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.

About The Role

Our Financial Crime 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 prevent financial crime. We’re looking for an innovative Financial Crime Compliance Manager to join the second line of defence with a focus on sanctions. You’ll apply your extensive experience in financial compliance to design, lead, and improve the future of oversight and compliance.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Monitoring sanction regulatory changes and assessing their impact
• Drafting, maintaining and updating FinCrime policies related to sanctions and terrorism financing
• Overseeing the sanction screening framework, notably tool parameters
• Advising on complex sanction cases and reporting to authorities
• Contributing to the internal control framework, including risk assessments, control design, indicators, incidents, recommendations
• Offering 2LoD support to the business and 1LoD FinCrime teams with the launch of products, procedures, processes, and systems
• Supporting FinCrime training for employees

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years of experience in FinCrime (sanctions and/or terrorism financing), covering a range of retail and business customers
• An understanding of innovative financial services products (crypto, buy now‑pay later, etc.) and associated financial crime risks
• Expertise in sanctions regulations and communications with authorities
• Knowledge of sanction screening tools
• An understanding of industry‑wide financial crime practices and trends
• Exposure to the French sanctions regime
• Expertise in identifying financial crime risks and potential vulnerabilities, and advising on best practices to address those findings
• A track record of stakeholder management, and the ability to collaborate, negotiate, and communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Fluency in English

Nice to Have

• A professional qualification from an internationally recognised body (e.g., ICA, ACAMS)
• Fluency in French

Diversity & Inclusion

We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard‑working team.