Senior Manager, KYC Risk & Assurance (Fintech)

Location: London, United Kingdom; minimum three days per week in the London office

Company

hirify.global is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving more than 1.3 million customers and processing billions of dollars in transactions.

What you will do

• Lead the KYC Risk & Assurance function and a team of three across the UK and Poland.
• Design and run a risk-based quality assurance framework for onboarding and enhanced due diligence.
• Provide first-line assurance, AML management information, and quality reporting to senior management and governance committees.
• Lead enhanced due diligence and make senior first-line risk decisions on complex, novel, borderline, institutional, and high-risk client cases.
• Operationalise KYC standards, CRA methodology, refresh processes, procedures, training, and remediation of high-risk clients.
• Drive KYC process excellence, governance, documentation, record keeping, and improvements to onboarding systems and controls.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of financial crime and AML experience in financial services.
• Deep expertise in KYC, CDD, and EDD, with strong knowledge of UK MLRs and JMLSG Guidance.
• Experience leading financial crime operations, KYC, quality, or assurance teams.
• Experience designing and operating KYC onboarding assurance frameworks and embedding KYC standards, CRA methodologies, and refresh processes.
• Experience producing AML management information and engaging governance committees and senior stakeholders.
• Working understanding of the FCA regulatory environment; a relevant bachelor's degree and AML qualification such as ICA Diploma or ACAMS are desirable.

Nice to have

• Degree in Law, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Recognised AML qualification such as the ICA Diploma or ACAMS.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment with development and growth opportunities.
• Outcome-focused environment measuring robust assurance, confident risk decisions, embedded KYC processes, and effective governance reporting.
• Opportunity to build financial crime capability and develop a high-performing KYC Risk & Assurance team.
• Collaborative work with institutional onboarding, Prime sales, second-line Compliance and Financial Crime, and senior business stakeholders.
• Commitment to diverse perspectives, inclusion, and professional development.