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About the Role
We are expanding our Assurance team to keep pace with business growth. This role will build and run our financial crime assurance coverage, alongside assurance reviews across the rest of the business, offering significant independence due to Griffin's unique BaaS model. You will report to the Head of Assurance with a dotted line to the MLRO for financial crime priorities, gaining direct exposure to senior leadership and helping to shape the function's testing, reporting, and closure processes.
Responsibilities
- Deliver independent assurance reviews, thematic deep dives, and control testing across the business, with a focus on financial crime.
- Manage the financial crime scope within the assurance plan, agreeing priorities directly with the MLRO.
- Manage other assurance scope as directed by the Head of Assurance.
- Help embed the combined assurance approach with Compliance, Risk, FinCrime, and Internal Audit, avoiding overlap while protecting independence.
- Set the evidence bar for remediation, checking fixes actually hold rather than just looking closed on paper.
- Own and maintain our actions tracker, keeping the backlog moving.
- Produce assurance workpapers and reports that stand up to scrutiny.
- Represent the Head of Assurance at risk and audit committees (ERCO/BRC) or other governance committees when needed.
- Help mature our testing methodology, templates, and tooling as the function grows.
Requirements
- Assurance, audit, or QC experience that includes testing controls, not just reviewing against a checklist.
- Financial crime experience as a reviewer, process owner, consultant, or within a prior assurance role.
- Solid knowledge of the UK regulatory framework (POCA, SAR obligations, FCA/PRA expectations).
- A track record of raising uncomfortable findings when they're warranted and standing behind them unless new evidence says otherwise.
- Experience working in a regulated financial services environment.
- The judgment to hold a challenging conversation with the first line without damaging the relationship.
- Coordination skills to keep a combined assurance model working smoothly.
- A love of writing, contributing to significant written documentation with clarity and readability.
Skills
- Financial crime assurance
- Control testing
- Regulatory framework knowledge (UK)
- Relationship management
- Coordination
- Written communication
Location
- Remote-first (UK)
- London (optional office)
Work Type
- Remote
- Asynchronous
- Fully flexible
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Relevant qualification (ICA financial crime, CAMS, or IIA) is ideal.
- Model validation experience is ideal.
- Prudential risk experience is ideal.
- Tech assurance experience is ideal.
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £60k
Benefits
- 25 days' holiday
- Bank holidays
- Winter break (between Christmas and New Year)
- Share options
- Pension (auto-enrolment into Penfold scheme)
- Private medical insurance with Bupa (including family cover)
- Life insurance with AIG
- Wellbeing support (1:1 coaching and therapy sessions through Oliva)
- Enhanced parental leave (up to 6 months on full pay after two years' service)
- Claude subscription
- Access to other premium AI tools
- WFH setup support
- Work from abroad (up to 20 days a year)
About the Company
- Griffin is a fully regulated UK bank powering accounts and payments for product-led fintechs and platforms.
- We provide the banking backbone for companies in remittance, payroll, wealth, insurance, proptech, payments, neobanking, and more.
- We are expanding into card issuing, stablecoin infrastructure, and agentic finance.
- We operate a remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible work environment.
- We foster a high-trust, high-autonomy culture where smart, motivated individuals thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to creating a place where everyone belongs and welcome diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and people.
- We encourage applications even if your experience doesn’t tick every box.