Financial Crime Compliance Specialist at Klarna
Manchester, London - England, United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Dec, 26

Salary

25000.0

Posted On

21 Sep, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Industry

Consumer Services

Description

What you will do

  • Review and approve Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) under MLRO delegation to ensure regulatory thresholds are met
  • Review investigations and SAR narratives for quality, completeness, and defensibility
  • Provide structured feedback to AML investigation teams on investigation quality and SAR narratives
  • Identify complex or sensitive cases requiring escalation to MLROs
  • Perform second-line oversight of AML controls, with a focus on Transaction Monitoring effectiveness
  • Conduct thematic reviews across SAR outcomes, escalation decisions, and typologies
  • Assess whether AML risks are adequately covered across products and customer segments
  • Contribute to AML input for new products, material changes, and control enhancements
  • Analyse AML metrics and trends to identify control gaps, emerging risks, or degradation
  • Support governance, documentation, and clear separation of responsibilities across AML teams

Who you are

  • Support governance, documentation, and clear separation of responsibilities across AML teams
  • Experience in AML, financial crime, or compliance within a regulated financial institution, such as a bank, fintech, payments company, or equivalent
  • Strong hands-on experience with SAR processes, including drafting, review, approval support, or filing, and understanding of applicable regulatory thresholds
  • Demonstrated understanding of AML risk typologies, escalation criteria, and how regulatory expectations are applied in practice
  • Proven ability to apply independent judgement in complex, sensitive, or ambiguous cases
  • Experience reviewing the quality, completeness, and defensibility of investigations and regulatory narratives
  • Excellent written communication skills, particularly in producing or reviewing clear, structured SAR narratives and regulatory explanations

Awesome to have

  • Excellent written communication skills, particularly in producing or reviewing clear, structured SAR narratives and regulatory explanations
  • Experience working in, or closely with, a second line of defence, compliance oversight, quality assurance, or risk function
  • Exposure to transaction monitoring frameworks, scenario-based monitoring, or assessment of transaction monitoring effectiveness
  • Experience supporting MLROs, acting under MLRO delegation, or preparing materials for MLRO decision-making and escalation
  • Experience performing thematic reviews, trend analysis, or control effectiveness assessments
  • • Familiarity with EU and US AML regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations, including FIU processes and relevant regulatory guidelines
  • Experience contributing to new product risk assessments, regulatory change implementation, or control enhancements
  • Please include a CV in English
Responsibilities

What you will do

  • Review and approve Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) under MLRO delegation to ensure regulatory thresholds are met
  • Review investigations and SAR narratives for quality, completeness, and defensibility
  • Provide structured feedback to AML investigation teams on investigation quality and SAR narratives
  • Identify complex or sensitive cases requiring escalation to MLROs
  • Perform second-line oversight of AML controls, with a focus on Transaction Monitoring effectiveness
  • Conduct thematic reviews across SAR outcomes, escalation decisions, and typologies
  • Assess whether AML risks are adequately covered across products and customer segments
  • Contribute to AML input for new products, material changes, and control enhancements
  • Analyse AML metrics and trends to identify control gaps, emerging risks, or degradation
  • Support governance, documentation, and clear separation of responsibilities across AML teams

Who you are

  • Support governance, documentation, and clear separation of responsibilities across AML teams
  • Experience in AML, financial crime, or compliance within a regulated financial institution, such as a bank, fintech, payments company, or equivalent
  • Strong hands-on experience with SAR processes, including drafting, review, approval support, or filing, and understanding of applicable regulatory thresholds
  • Demonstrated understanding of AML risk typologies, escalation criteria, and how regulatory expectations are applied in practice
  • Proven ability to apply independent judgement in complex, sensitive, or ambiguous cases
  • Experience reviewing the quality, completeness, and defensibility of investigations and regulatory narratives
  • Excellent written communication skills, particularly in producing or reviewing clear, structured SAR narratives and regulatory explanations

Awesome to have

  • Excellent written communication skills, particularly in producing or reviewing clear, structured SAR narratives and regulatory explanations
  • Experience working in, or closely with, a second line of defence, compliance oversight, quality assurance, or risk function
  • Exposure to transaction monitoring frameworks, scenario-based monitoring, or assessment of transaction monitoring effectiveness
  • Experience supporting MLROs, acting under MLRO delegation, or preparing materials for MLRO decision-making and escalation
  • Experience performing thematic reviews, trend analysis, or control effectiveness assessments
  • • Familiarity with EU and US AML regulatory frameworks and supervisory expectations, including FIU processes and relevant regulatory guidelines
  • Experience contributing to new product risk assessments, regulatory change implementation, or control enhancements
  • Please include a CV in English
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