FinCrime SARs Escalations Specialist

Revolut Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut Ltd. is seeking an Escalations Officer within Financial Crime Operations to help keep customers safe by ensuring high-quality suspicious activity reporting across branches.

You will act as escalation point for SARs and collaborate with local authorities to strengthen controls. The role requires experience in FinCrime and AML regulations, with the ability to review policies and work across multiple investigations systems.

Qualifications

• Experience as compliance/FinCrime officer in a major financial institution.
• In-depth knowledge of AML and sanctions regulations.
• Ability to review policies and advise if changes are required.
• Experience operating a variety of internal and external systems and databases to complete investigations.

Responsibilities

• Act as the escalation point and ensure high-quality suspicious activity reports are submitted according to local requirements.
• Respond to regulatory inquiries and other requests from local authorities related to SARs.
• Managing queries requiring a second line of defence review.
• Working with the MLRO and escalating significant cases.
• Monitoring and detecting rare or new patterns, and reporting emerging trends in suspicious activity.
• Resolving escalated cases, following expected resolution times.
• Participating in projects with management as required.
• Collaborating on training initiatives and implementation of new processes.

Skills

Compliance experience

FinCrime operations

AML knowledge

Regulatory inquiries

Tools

Investigations systems

Job description

Revolut Ltd. is seeking an Escalations Officer within Financial Crime Operations to help keep customers safe by ensuring high-quality suspicious activity reporting across branches.

You will act as escalation point for SARs and collaborate with local authorities to strengthen controls. The role requires experience in FinCrime and AML regulations, with the ability to review policies and work across multiple investigations systems.