Financial Crime Operations Analyst

A team that delivers. Sharp, down to earth people who get the job done and enjoy doing it together.

A Soho home base. Central London, in the middle of it all.

A market ready to move. 96% of the FTSE 500 hedge their FX risk. Only 4% of SMEs do. We're built to close that gap and it's ours to win.

A product people love. No dead software. No shelfware. Customers set it, trust it, and stay.

You'll sit within Bound's Operations function, working closely with the MLRO, Ops, Finance, Sales and Product teams to keep Bound's financial crime controls sharp as the business scales.

Own the end-to-end KYB lifecycle, including onboarding, remediation, and periodic reviews.

Analyse, verify, and map complex corporate structures, including ownership hierarchies and control relationships, to identify Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs).

Perform risk-based screening using modern compliance tools, including sanctions, PEP, and adverse media checks across entities and associated individuals.

Assess and review source of wealth and source of funds.

Identify and evaluate financial crime risk indicators, including jurisdictional, sectoral, behavioural, and reputational risk factors.

Partner with Sales and customers to streamline digital onboarding journeys.

Investigate transaction monitoring alerts and identify suspicious activity.

Recognise financial crime typologies across payments and FX (e.g. structuring, layering, rapid movement of funds, mismatches with stated business activity)

Prepare internal escalations and Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for MLRO review.

Maintain high-quality, audit-ready case management records within compliance systems

Identify trends across alerts and feeding these back into rule tuning and risk assessments

Drive automation and process improvements across financial crime.

Support the MLRO with MI, reporting and ad hoc regulatory requests

Help maintain and evolve policies and procedures to ensure alignment with FCA expectations and evolving regulatory standards

Contribute to building a scalable, technology-driven compliance function that grows with the business