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About the Role
We are seeking a Transaction Monitoring Analyst with 1-2 years of experience to investigate alerts, identify suspicious activity, and manage complex financial crime investigations. This role involves using data to identify trends, improve processes, and shape the evolution of Transaction Monitoring as VFX scales.
Responsibilities
- Review and investigate transaction monitoring alerts related to AML, fraud, sanctions, and financial crime risks.
- Analyze customer activity, transactional behavior, and source of funds.
- Identify unusual patterns, emerging risks, and potentially suspicious activity.
- Make risk-based decisions and escalate high-risk cases.
- Prepare clear investigation summaries, case narratives, and supporting documentation.
- Maintain high-quality case handling standards and manage workloads.
- Ensure investigations are completed within SLAs and regulatory requirements.
- Draft and submit Internal Suspicious Activity Reports (ISARs).
- Work with Financial Crime and MLRO teams to support external SAR submissions.
- Analyze transactional data to identify financial crime trends, typologies, control gaps, and emerging risks.
- Manipulate and interpret large data sets using Excel and internal tools.
- Support the production of management information (MI), trend analysis, and risk reporting.
- Assist in enhancing transaction monitoring coverage, effectiveness, and efficiency.
- Use data-driven insights to challenge existing processes and support continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with Compliance, Operations, Risk, Onboarding, and Commercial teams.
- Share insights on financial crime trends, typologies, and emerging risks.
- Proactively identify process improvements and operational efficiencies.
- Bring new ideas and challenge existing work methods to strengthen financial crime controls.
- Lead or support initiatives to improve alert quality, investigation standards, team productivity, and regulatory compliance.
- Support testing, tuning, and optimization of transaction monitoring controls.
Requirements
- 1-2 years of experience in Transaction Monitoring, AML, Financial Crime, Compliance Operations, or a related risk function.
- Ability to confidently investigate alerts, identify suspicious activity, and take ownership of complex financial crime investigations.
- Experience investigating transaction monitoring alerts and documenting clear risk-based decisions.
- Experience preparing Internal SARs or escalating suspicious activity through appropriate governance channels.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to manipulate and interpret data.
- Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment and knowing when to escalate.
- Experience using Excel functions such as Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, filtering, and data analysis techniques.
- Exposure to transaction monitoring rule tuning, alert optimisation, or thematic reviews.
- Experience working within a fintech, payments, FX, banking, or e-money environment.
Skills
- Transaction Monitoring
- AML
- Financial Crime
- Compliance Operations
- Risk Management
- Data Analysis
- Excel
- Pivot Tables
- VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP
- Rule Tuning
- Alert Optimisation
- Thematic Reviews
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- In-person
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Generous Profit Share Plan (PSP)
- Potential equity opportunities via the Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
- Competitive salary
- Annual all-expenses paid company incentive trip abroad
- Flexible learning & development budget
About the Company
- VFX Financial is a rapidly growing FinTech company specializing in cross-border money movement, management, and protection for complex organizations.
- We serve specialist sectors, multi-jurisdiction structures, and high-compliance environments.
- VFX has six international offices, five regulatory licenses, and achieved an 83% CAGR over the past three years.
- Recognized by the Financial Times FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2026, CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies 2026, Wealth & Finance FinTech Awards 2026, and the Business Growth Award from Business Awards UK.
- Our team is driven by collective ownership, a focus on growth, and a passion for solving complex problems.