Head of Anti-Money Laundering
Tide Platform
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading, developing and mentoring a growing team of 50+ analysts, team leads and managers spread between India, Bulgaria and the UK.
- Serving as a subject matter expert within 1LOD on all matters relating to money laundering, counter-terrorism, tax evasion, sanction evasion and bribery and corruption. You'll work closely with our Head of Fraud, and fraud colleagues, to ensure synergy between the two.
- Working with our product & data teams and third-party suppliers to continuously improve our AI Models and policy rules to identify and prevent financial crime.
- Encouraging a continuous learning culture within Tide where non-fraud financial crime typologies are rapidly fed back to update and improve our controls.
- Balancing the need to keep financial crime levels within Tide's risk appetite, as determined by the board, with delivering the highest level of service to our members, especially in the management of blocked accounts, blocked transactions and other controls.
- Constantly looking to make manual processes more efficient and increase automation where possible. Working closely with your product team to improve back office and case management tools and processes.
- Working closely with our 2LOD oversight risk and compliance teams to ensure your team is adhering to Tide policies, procedures and risk appetite, quickly able to identify financial crime trends and themes, and amend controls as required.
- Reporting to senior management on non-fraud financial crime KPIs and SLAs.
- Ensuring your team is adequately trained and resourced, working closely with our Talent and People partners and internal expert trainers to ensure we continue to recruit, upskill and retain the very best employees.
- Previous experience in the financial industry including time spent in a fast-moving scale-up business (ideally a Fintech).
- Passionate about fighting financial crime and have an excellent understanding of financial crime risks (particularly non-fraud) for a mass market business, ideally in the SME segment; you have experience in the specific types of non-fraud financial crime (especially sanctions, money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion, modern slavery, money mules).
- Excited about providing a great member experience.
- Experience working within a regulated environment and have a good understanding of the UK regulations (including POCA, TACT & PSR). You have experience of FCA reporting requirements.
- Product and technology driven and ideally have had practical experience in working with product, data and engineering teams to develop state of the art AI models, policy rules and automation.
- Experience in engaging with external product vendors and payment partners as well as regulatory, law enforcement and industry contacts.
- Take ownership and have proven leadership & management experience, having scaled teams effectively.
- Data driven and comfortable with OKRs, KPIs, KRIs, SLAs, forecasting, budgeting and planning.
- Flexible and creative mind and aim to bring out the best in people around you.
- You naturally align with Tide's values (MemberFirst, OneTeam, DataDriven).
- Competitive salary
- Self & Family Health Insurance
- Term & Life Insurance
- OPD Benefits
- Mental wellbeing through Plumm
- Learning & Development Budget
- WFH Setup allowance
- 15 days of Privilege leaves
- 12 days of Casual leaves
- 12 days of Sick leaves
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities