Team Lead, FinCrime Compliance

Summary

Join Deel's FinCrime Compliance team as an experienced Team Lead in the second line of defense. You will leverage your strong financial crime risk knowledge and subject matter expertise to guide team members, oversee workflow, and support strategic projects. Responsibilities include investigating suspicious activities, executing transaction monitoring tasks, ensuring high-quality investigation reports, handling escalations, and managing requests from external sources. You will also contribute to process improvement and create comprehensive documentation. This role requires 4+ years of experience in a high-volume compliance operations team, knowledge of financial crime and sanctions compliance, and excellent communication skills. Deel offers competitive pay, stock grant opportunities, flexible remote work, and additional perks.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience in a high-volume output Compliance operations team
• You are knowledgeable in the area of financial crime and sanctions compliance risk management and controls, you understand financial crime and sanctions compliance related regulations
• You have experience managing teams
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You are data-driven and have a structured approach to solving problems
• You are very organized and have an acute attention to detail
• You uphold a service-oriented mindset when working with internal and external teams
• You are willing to put in extra hours during our busy periods (typically around the end of month)
• You are able to work in an extremely fast-paced global environment while maintaining quality and accuracy
• You are able to execute independently and maintain integrity in a fully remote company
• You are a fun and supportive teammate!

Responsibilities

• Oversee and drive the smooth flow of work within the team
• Support direct Manager in strategic projects in the FinCrime field, as needed and proactively assist with the efficient implementation of new FinCrime processes, demonstrating initiative and can-do attitude
• Identify and investigate potential suspicious activities in relation to financial crime, handle in depth AML and fraud investigations, as well as ATO cases
• Efficiently execute transaction monitoring tasks i.e. handling alerts triggered by transaction monitoring tools and high risk scenarios
• Ensure investigations are completed to a high standard, including the preparation of high quality investigation reports and the accurate filing or logging of relevant supporting material
• Handle escalations from various teams as per procedures, including EDD, PEP, Sanction and Adverse Media screenings and high risk scenarios
• Handle requests for information from external sources i.e. subpoenas and law enforcement requests
• Maintain the confidential information of our customers, our partners, and our business with the utmost integrity
• Assist with providing payment-related compliance expertise to improve processes, tooling, and automation
• Create and maintain thorough and clear documentation on procedures, incidents, risk analysis, as well as provide reporting to different levels of audience

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access