Senior Financial Crime Investigator - Screening

About the Role

Monzo is looking for a Senior Financial Crime Investigator - Screening to join the Financial Crime Screening team. This team supports various aspects of the customer journey such as onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and event based review. We conduct due diligence on our customers making fair and proportionate risk based decisions on their behalf.

Key Responsibilities

• Reviewing high priority or complex tasks, such as enhanced due diligence (EDD), conducting open source investigations where required.
• Answering escalations from Investigators and other colleagues from across the business, and, if required, escalating these further to Ops Analysts.
• Coaching colleagues on our FinCrime Screening tasks including supporting our global partners.
• As a subject matter expert in the domain that you work you will proactively use your own experience to improve the knowledge, skills, behaviours or performance of others.
• Driving team morale by being positive and enthusiastic. Helping to motivate others and make the working atmosphere enjoyable and supportive.

Qualifications

• You have solid experience in fighting financial crime, specifically around customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence.
• You have a basic understanding of PEP’s, Adverse Media and Sanctions screening.
• You are confident in using open source information to inform your reviews and investigations.
• You are a strong team player and able to work effectively with colleagues with a range of backgrounds and experience levels, providing actionable specific feedback to investigators and their managers.
• You are developing a solid understanding of UK legislation, regulations and industry guidance around economic crime and keep up to date with emerging risk.

Benefits

• Remote in the UK
• Salary: £29,450 - £37,250 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
• Shared parental leave
• Hear from the team
• Start date: 17th August 2026
• Hours/Shifts: Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm and work around 1 in every 8 weekends where you will have days off in lieu. Within Screening we offer shift flexibility allowing you to change your base shift giving you flexibility over your start times with the ability to request variation of your weekly shift pattern.
• Training schedule: You have to be available to work Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 17:30 for your first 6 weeks remotely which must be fully attended. We cannot accommodate any holidays during this 6 week training period.