ZopaFinancial Crime Specialist - Transaction Monitoring
Zopa is hiring a Financial Crime Specialist - Transaction Monitoring in London, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Zopa.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- Some of the work can be done remotely, according to the posting.
- The posting mentions transaction monitoring, financial crime and investigation among its tools and skills.
- Zopa has 38 other open roles on Level.
- Posted in the last few days.
AI in this role
Investigate complex financial crime alerts, challenge AI-enabled transaction monitoring outputs, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Our Story
Hello there. We’re Zopa.
We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!
We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.
If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife
The role:
As a Financial Crime Specialist, you will protect Zopa and its customers by investigating complex transaction monitoring activity, making clear and well-evidenced decisions, and escalating suspicion appropriately. You will apply sound judgement where automation is not appropriate, ensuring our controls remain effective, proportionate and customer-focused.
This role is central to how we’re evolving financial crime at Zopa. You’ll combine investigative expertise with the assurance of AI-enabled tools, challenging AI outputs, identifying control gaps and helping improve the quality and consistency of decisions across Financial Crime Operations.
Working pattern:
This is a hybrid role, with 1 day per week in the office. You’ll work 7.5-hour shifts between 8am and 8pm, Monday to Friday.
You’ll also work one full weekend every four weeks, working remotely from 9am to 5:30pm, with weekdays off in lieu.
Some bank holiday working will also be required throughout the year, with time off in lieu provided for any bank holidays worked.
How we rate this
Financial Crime Specialist - Transaction Monitoring at Zopa rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where transaction monitoring was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where financial crime was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where investigation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where compliance was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where fraud detection was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Transaction Monitoring, Financial Crime, Investigation, Compliance, and Fraud Detection. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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