Velocity
Financial Crime Operations - Manager
London, Remote. Posted 8 months ago
The role
The Manager will lead institutional and corporate KYC and EDD reviews. They will oversee monitoring of crypto and fiat transactions and manage alert handling and escalation workflows.
What you will do
- Lead institutional and corporate KYC and EDD reviews, including complex ownership structures, UBO analysis, and risk assessments.
- Own ongoing due diligence, periodic reviews, and trigger-based refresh processes.
- Oversee and perform monitoring of crypto and fiat transactions to identify, investigate, and escalate suspicious activity.
- Manage alert handling, investigations, and escalation workflows.
- Support the development and optimisation of transaction monitoring rules, thresholds, and investigative processes.
- Draft, maintain, and own financial crime operational procedures and SOPs.
- Support Compliance with regulatory change implementation, audits, and internal reviews.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience in financial crime, AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, or related operational roles.
- Strong experience across both crypto and fiat monitoring, including hands-on investigative work.
- Experience with industry leading tools such as Chainalysis, SumSub and Notabene.
- Proven ability to draft, own, and operationalise procedures and SOPs.
- Experience partnering closely with Compliance teams in a regulated environment.
- Strong understanding of UK and international AML / financial crime regulatory expectations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-growing environment.
Benefits
- Shared ownership
- High end Macbook provided and updated regularly
- Paid sick leave for physical and mental health
- Private health cover and dental coverage depending on location
- Pension scheme with 3% base salary contribution
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and birthday off
- Option to opt out of bank holidays for 33 days of holiday
About the company
Velocity is unifying fiat and digital assets through regulated stablecoin technology. The team consists of around 25 people across London and Warsaw.