The Company

At Redpin we simplify life's most important payments. Buying a new property overseas can be a stressful time, especially when it comes to moving your money. Through our Currencies Direct and TorFX brands we've been helping people do just that for over 25 years. With recent investment we're now on a mission to build a new range of digital products and services that will make moving money Internationally for Real Estate purchases even easier.

We’re on a mission to become the solution for Real Estate payments everywhere. To do this, we are transitioning our business from a horizontal FX platform to a verticalized, embedded software company, as we look to the future and Redpin 2.0

Redpin operates globally and has licensed entities in multiple jurisdictions, including the UK, EEA (Spain), US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Compliance Analyst – Role Description

Contract Type: 8-Month Fixed-Term Contract 
As a Compliance Analyst, you will be critical in leading our effort in combating financial crime, including money laundering, fraud, terrorist financing and proliferation financing. Additionally, you will also assist in ensuring that our broad regulatory obligations continue to be met and help to protect our clients and the business from risks such as fraud and money laundering.

Being a Compliance Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring our regulatory obligations are met and internal operations coincide with our compliance framework applicable to our licensed entities.
• Providing clear, accurate and timely advice, support and guidance to our front line and back office functions, and acting as a trusted voice for which our colleagues can rely upon
• Reviewing CDD and KYC queries and concerns to ensure that we maintain compliance with regulation, and thinking outside of the box to support our clients
• Reviewing customer applications and undertaking risk assessments on client profiles for high risk applications
• Transaction monitoring on payments to assess money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing and financial crime / fraud risk, providing a clear rationale for decision making and/or escalation
• Reviewing and assisting in drafting of Suspicious Activity Reports for global FIUs
• Working with industry systems and processes to report, recover and support our clients with respect to financial crime and fraud
• Dealing with external requests for information from banking counterparties, law enforcement and/or other competent authorities.
• Identifying improvements and enhancements to working practices and processes to ensure that we remain efficient, proportionate and compliant

Experience Required

• Demonstrated understanding of AML risk specific to financial services, namely to the e-money and payments industry
• Experience in foreign exchange desirable
• Tertiary qualification either with ICA, ACAMS or CISI (or equivalent) desirable
• Exceptional communication skills and an ability to convey complex information in an easy to read and understandable format for stakeholders
• Pro-active approach, capable of working on own initiative and actively taking accountability and ownership of matters
• Attention to detail when completing all work