Senior Financial Crime Investigator, Monzo

• You have solid experience in fighting financial crime, specifically around customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence
• You have a basic understanding of PEP’s, Adverse Media and Sanctions screening
• You are confident in using open source information to inform your reviews and investigations
• You are a strong team player and able to work effectively with colleagues with a range of backgrounds and experience levels, providing actionable specific feedback to investigators and their managers
• You are developing a solid understanding of UK legislation, regulations and industry guidance around economic crime and keep up to date with emerging risk and trends in financial crime
• You have great time management skills, you are flexible, and you can work with limited supervision
• Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement
• At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

Desirable

• Start Date: 26th May 2026
• Hours/Shifts: You’ll work Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm and work around 1 in every 8 weekends where you will have days off in lieu
• Within Screening we offer shift flexibility allowing you to change your base shift giving you flexibility over your start times with the ability to request variation of your weekly shift pattern
• The Financial Crime Screening team supports various aspects of the customer journey such as onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and event based review. We conduct due diligence on our customers making fair and proportionate risk based decisions on their behalf
• You will report to a Financial Crime Team Manager as part of a team of 12 working on complex EDD processes alongside supporting escalations cross domain
• Reviewing high priority or complex tasks, such as enhanced due diligence (EDD), conducting open source investigations where required
• Answering escalations from Investigators and other colleagues from across the business, and, if required, escalating these further to Ops Analysts
• Coaching colleagues on our FinCrime Screening tasks including supporting our global partners
• As a subject matter expert in the domain that you work you will proactively use your own experience to improve the knowledge, skills, behaviours or performance of others
• Driving team morale by being positive and enthusiastic. Helping to motivate others and make the working atmosphere enjoyable and supportive

• Application questions - Please take your time to fill these out, we read them all
• Recruiter Call (30 minutes, video call)
• Technical and Values (60 minutes, video call)
• Please note we will only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stages. Please submit your application asap to avoid any disappointment