Senior Manager, Financial Crime Intelligence and Oversight

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid with at least 3 days per week in the office.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Act as hirify.global Payments Limited’s Nominated Officer, delegated by the MLRO, for UK AML, counter-terrorist financing, and sanctions obligations.
• Lead the Financial Crime Intelligence and Oversight team and oversee internal SAR intake, triage, investigations, decisioning, external reporting, DAML requests, fraud notifications, law-enforcement enquiries, partner RFIs, and true sanctions matches.
• Own the financial crime management information framework, including KRIs, SAR and DAML registers, case taxonomies, SLA and ageing dashboards, quality outcomes, root-cause analysis, and trend reporting.
• Lead thematic and trigger-based reviews of clients, partners, products, corridors, and emerging risks, including digital asset and stablecoin-adjacent flows.
• Drive operational resilience, quality assurance, process improvement, cross-training, succession planning, and GenAI-enabled efficiency initiatives in partnership with Compliance Technology.
• Act as the primary financial crime intelligence adviser to the MLRO, liaise with UK and international law enforcement, coordinate audits and framework reviews, and deliver financial crime compliance training.

Requirements

• Significant senior second-line financial crime compliance experience within payments, banking, fintech, or correspondent-style money movement.
• Extensive technical knowledge of Client Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, Quality Assurance, and External Reporting.
• Expertise in multi-FIU suspicious activity reporting regimes, including internal reporting frameworks, external SAR filing, DAML concepts, and tipping-off controls.
• Proven ability to produce and present financial crime data, MI, KRIs, and presentation decks to senior management.
• Experience leading compliance professionals in a high-throughput environment with strong quality and governance practices, including the application of Generative AI and related tools.
• Strong capability in analysing complex payment chains and B2B transaction flows, including crypto, stablecoin, and virtual-currency typologies.
• Ability to write high-quality, structured SAR narratives and build defensible decision logs.
• Experience partnering with product and technology teams on business propositions, new products, and verticals.
• Exposure to emerging typologies such as mule activity, digital assets, sanctions evasion, and stablecoin-adjacent fiat flows.

Nice to have

• Professional AML qualification, such as ICA, ACAMS, or an equivalent certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hybrid working arrangement requiring at least 3 office days per week.
• Work within hirify.global’s wider second-line Compliance function and collaborate with regulated-entity MLRO teams internationally.
• Opportunity to contribute to payment technology and financial crime controls with global regulatory impact.