Vendor Assurance Specialist

Summary

Join Pleo as a Financial Crime Vendor Assurance Specialist and play a crucial role in ensuring our vendors meet the highest compliance and performance standards. You will conduct thorough vendor assessments, develop testing methodologies, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and monitor performance metrics. This role requires experience in financial crime prevention, AML/CTF, and B2B due diligence. You will be responsible for maintaining comprehensive documentation and communicating findings to stakeholders. Pleo offers a dynamic work environment with various benefits, including a Pleo card, lunch, private health insurance, paid time off, remote work options, additional holiday purchase, mental health support, professional development access, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Experience working in a Financial Crime prevention/Anti-money laundering function - preferably within DK and the EU
• Good knowledge and a sincere interest in current Financial Crime legislation and being adaptable and flexible in response to changes
• At least 3 years of experience working in B2B due diligence/KYC processes
• Experience working with Vendor assurance
• Methodical, and able to prioritise and plan tasks, ability to activity work through changing workload to always meet deadlines
• Are able to present complex matters in a clear and professional manner

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough assessments of vendor services within FinCrime
• Develop and implement robust testing methodologies to verify vendor performance and compliance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure their services align with our AML/CTF requirements
• Monitor and analyse vendor performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of vendor assessments and compliance checks to identify, mitigate and address risks arising from vendors and systems (e.g. operational, reputational or regulatory)
• Effectively communicate compliance findings, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• A forward-thinking mentality that challenges the status quo and fosters innovation
• Thrives in getting responsibility
• Can manage several projects simultaneously
• Proactive and able to work on your own, as well as with others in a team
• AI knowledge/ curiosity and hands-on experience

Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our teams we offer remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work