Role overview:

The Financial Crime Technology position at Malverde offers the chance to assist financial institutions and FinTechs in designing, implementing, and enhancing technology solutions to detect and prevent financial crime. In this role, you will analyze clients' current processes, identify gaps, and provide recommendations for improvement, particularly in areas such as transaction monitoring, customer screening, and payment fraud detection. Collaboration with Malverde team members and client stakeholders will be essential to ensuring successful project delivery. To excel in this role, you will need strong analytical, consulting, and technical skills, along with a solid understanding of financial crime regulations and technology.

You’ll get to:

• Collaborate with leading FinTechs, challenger banks, and payments firms to design, implement and optimise fraud and financial crime controls and technology

• Analyze client processes and technology, recommending and executing improvements to deliver measurable results

• Work closely with client stakeholders to understand their goals and collaboratively achieve successful outcomes

• Work with teams of subject matter experts to identify the best solutions and deliver exceptional results

• Contribute to proposal writing, client pitches, and proposition development to support business growth

• Play a vital role in growing our business and sharing in its success

Who we’re looking for:

• A quick learner who is adaptable and open to trying new things

• Someone who is driven, proactive, and motivated to get things done

• A collaborative team player who enjoys working with others and having fun at work

Core skills required:

• Strong business analysis skills with the ability to critically assess problems and present findings clearly to varied audiences

• Excellent consulting skills, including presentation, verbal, and written communication

• Applied understanding of fraud and financial crime controls and technology, such as customer screening, payment screening, customer risk assessment models, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection

• Familiarity with financial crime regulations – e.g. FCA Handbook, JMLSG, FATF, Money Laundering Regulations, and Payment Services Regulations

• A degree with a 2:1 or above

• 3+ years of experience in a financial crime role, whether in consultancy, a financial institution, or a software vendor

Nice to have:

• Experience with fraud technology, including payment fraud detection

• Knowledge of fraud typologies such as Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud

• Data analysis skills, including working with data feeds, Excel, SQL, and creating data visualisations

Benefits and perks:

• Opportunity to work with an exciting new startup with potential for rapid personal and career development

• £50-80k starting salary

• Performance related share in company profits

• Pension contribution

• 25 days leave with an option to buy additional days

• We operate hybrid working and believe that time together in-person is beneficial to developing relationships, coaching, mental health and collaboration (especially for a small firm). We currently aim to work 3 days in our office in Shoreditch, East London and 2 days remotely. Requirements may vary depending on a given clients needs, however post-COVID it is rare for a client to require us to be in their office full-time.

About Malverde:

• We are an innovative new consultancy focused on providing exceptional financial crime advice and support to our clients

• We pride ourselves in being different from the big consultancies by ensuring we hire the best talent to enable our clients to get the best return on their investment

• Our team work collaboratively together to support personal development, build our business and deliver projects with our clients