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🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ _ ✨ 📍Remote in the UK 🇬🇧 | 💰 £29,450 - £37,250 + | ✨ Start date: Monday 16th March 2026 Shifts: You'll work 37.5 hours per week. This means you'll work Monday to Friday, from 9AM to 5:30PM. You'll also work one full weekend (Saturday and Sunday), once every 4 weeks with 2 set days in lieu when working the weekend. ⭐ Our Financial Crime Customer Operations Team: The Shield of Monzo Our Financial Crime Customer Operations team is the frontline defence in protecting Monzo and our customers from the complex threats of economic crime, including sophisticated fraud schemes and global money laundering networks. We are not just a compliance function; we are a critical operational hub focused on safeguarding financial integrity. At Monzo, our operational teams are structured into specialised 'Pillars', each focusing on a specific business area, set of risks, and unique typologies. This allows us to build deep, world-class subject matter expertise where it matters most. The FinCrime Business Banking Pillar In the FinCrime Business Banking Pillar, you will be integral to protecting the entire lifecycle of our business customers from high-growth startups to established SMEs. Our mission within this pillar is to ensure Monzo's business ecosystem remains transparent and trusted. This involves: • Conducting rigorous checks during onboarding and throughout the customer relationship., • Unravelling suspicious activity across a spectrum of financial crime typologies., • Reporting, exiting accounts, and implementing controls when significant risk is identified. 🚀 The Role: FinCrime Business Banking Senior Investigator As a FinCrime Business Banking Senior Investigator, you will play a pivotal role within our financial crime operations. Your main focus will be completing some of our higher risk, high complexity financial crime tasks on our business accounts, while supporting our Team Managers and coaching our Investigators to achieve our quality and productivity goals. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will directly contribute to Monzo's safety and reputation, and the broader fight against illicit finance. 🔑 You’ll play a key role by... • Taking ownership of the most complex FinCrime Business Banking tasks, including Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) for high-risk segments, Complex Customer Reviews (e.g, in sensitive areas like Sexual Services flags), and multi-jurisdictional money muling investigations., • Writing, reviewing, and submitting high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the National Crime Agency (NCA), ensuring they meet the highest legal and evidential standards., • Maintaining a regular schedule on core investigative tasks to sustain your competency levels, directly support the domain’s Service Level Agreements, and remain connected to frontline challenges., • Actively coaching Investigators on complex financial crime typologies, best practice, and performance improvement, to support in driving a culture of excellence., • Working closely with our Operations Analysts, to share emerging trends and ensure that operational guidance is continuously updated and effectively embedded across the domain. 💡 We’d love to hear from you if… • You can demonstrate an ability to give clear, constructive, and kind feedback that motivates colleagues and enhances performance., • You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can adapt positively and quickly to change be it new guidance, evolving processes, or shifting priorities., • You maintain flexibility in the tasks you are scheduled for and can adapt seamlessly when business needs require changes at short notice., • You are driven by a desire to have a tangible impact on the detection and prevention of financial crime, protecting Monzo and its customers. 🎯 At the interview, we will be looking for you to demonstrate... Essential Expertise • Significant and specific experience in conducting end-to-end due diligence (KYB) and investigations on businesses (SMEs, Corporates, etc.) in a regulated financial crime setting., • Proven ability to conduct in-depth, high-quality open-source research and analysis to corroborate customer profiles and transactional activity., • Strong foundational and applied Financial Crime knowledge, specifically deep exposure to Know Your Business (KYB) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) principles., • A strong understanding of current UK and international financial crime trends and typologies, with particular expertise in those impacting business accounts (e.g. trade-based money laundering, complex shell structures, illicit use of payment services)., • A comprehensive understanding of the UK Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) regime, including consent requirements and the legislative framework (POCA). ➕ It will be useful, but not essential if... • You have direct experience of completing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and/or Complex Customer Reviews, and/or have experience writing and reviewing/approving SARs., • You have formal or informal experience of coaching, mentoring, or training peers or more junior members of the team., • You can demonstrate a track record of identifying areas for control/process improvement and successfully working with, or escalating to, relevant stakeholders to implement change., • You hold or are working towards an appropriate qualification relevant to Financial Crime (e.g. ACAMS, ICA Diploma). 🧡 Monzo's Culture & Benefits Monzo is a bank built on transparency, fairness, and inclusion. We are building a bank for everyone and are looking for people who can bring diverse perspectives and experiences. 🙌What’s in it for you 💰£29,450 - £37,250 ➕share options. 🎂We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period. 📍This role is remote based in the UK ⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more!_. 🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps • Application questions - Please take the time to answer these in detail, we read them all!, • Recruiter call (Video call), • Full loop interview - values and technical questions (Video call) This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to nickygamble@monzo.com. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else. Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2024 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ Remote in the UK 🇬🇧 | 💰 £29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) +_ 👋 Hey there! We're Monzo, the bank that's making money work for everyone. We're all about waving goodbye to old-school banking and creating magical moments for our customers. We're expanding in the EU and need awesome Senior Investigators to lead the charge! 🔑You’ll play a key role by... • Investigating complex or high-risk anti-money laundering alerts on business accounts., • Responsible for recommending Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) be by Monzo Bank EU., • Making business onboarding decisions in high-risk or complex cases., • Conducting ongoing due diligence on high-risk business accounts., • Providing financial crime expertise and support to other operational teams across the business. 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… • You have strong English written and verbal communication skills., • You are Fluent in Spanish both written and verbal communication skills (to at least CEFR C1 level)., • You have strong experience of conducting high-risk business banking screening or complex business financial crime investigations., • You have experience making independent, risk-based financial crime decisions in a regulated financial services firm., • You have knowledge of the current financial crime landscape in the UK and the EU, and associated financial crime risks. The working hours to be covered by the team will be 7am - 6.30pm and this will be based on 8.5 hours per day (with a 1 hour lunch included). This will include 1 in 4 weekends. The successful candidate will be required to be flexible in order to meet our customer demand. The start for the role will be Monday 8th June and you must be able to commit to the first 8 weeks. No holidays/time off will be authorised during this period. 🙌 What’s in it for you 💰£29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) ➕ share options. 🎂 We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period. 📍 This role is remote based in the UK. 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more!_. 🌈 Ready to join the Monzo adventure? Apply now and help us make money work for everyone in the EU! The application journey has 4 key steps • Application questions., • Call with a Recruiter., • Interview to discuss your previous experience and technical knowledge and values., • The final step will consist of a Spanish language assessment. Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that’s listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo._Our average process takes around 5 weeks but we will always work around your availability. We may close the advert should we have sufficient applications so please get your application in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. #LI-JI1 Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2024 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ _ ✨ Remote in the UK 🇬🇧 | 💰 £29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) | ✨ 👋 Hey there! We're Monzo, the bank that's making money work for everyone. We're all about waving goodbye to old-school banking and creating magical moments for our customers. We're expanding in the EU and need awesome Senior Investigators to lead the charge! 🔑You’ll play a key role by... • Investigating complex or high-risk anti-money laundering alerts on business accounts., • Responsible for recommending Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR) be by Monzo Bank EU., • Making business onboarding decisions in high-risk or complex cases., • Conducting ongoing due diligence on high-risk business accounts., • Providing financial crime expertise and support to other operational teams across the business. 🤩We’d love to hear from you if… • You have strong English written and verbal communication skills., • You are Fluent in Spanish both written and verbal communication skills (to at least CEFR C1 level)., • You have strong experience of conducting high-risk business banking screening or complex business financial crime investigations., • You have experience making independent, risk-based financial crime decisions in a regulated financial services firm., • You have knowledge of the current financial crime landscape in the UK and the EU, and associated financial crime risks. The working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 9am-5.30pm and one in four weekends. The start for the role will be Monday 4th August and you must be able to commit to the first 8 weeks no holidays/time off will be authorised during this period. 🙌 What’s in it for you 💰£29,450 - £37,000 (+ £2,500 Multilingual Premium) ➕share options. 🎂 We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period. 📍 This role is remote based in the UK 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more!_. 🌈 Ready to join the Monzo adventure? Apply now and help us make money work for everyone in the EU! The application journey has 4 key steps • Application questions Recruiter call • Should you be successful in your application, you will be invited to a 60-minute interview to discuss your previous experience and technical knowledge., • The final step will consist of a Spanish language assessment. Please note you should submit your own application without help from other sources e.g Others/ChatGPT any applications whereby external support has been provided will be disqualified. Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you do have any specific questions ahead of this please contact us via hiring@Monzo.com The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd June 2025 at 9am. Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2024 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

You are developing a solid understanding of UK legislation, regulations and industry guidance around economic crime and keep up to date with emerging risk and trends in financial crime. You are able to articulate the financial crime threats facing fintechs and the banking sector. You hold or are wor

Answering escalations from Investigators and other colleagues from across the business, and, if required, escalating these further to Ops Analysts. You are a strong team player and able to work effectively with colleagues with a range of backgrounds and experience levels, providing actionable specif

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as and bank accounts, we offer , , a and in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also , and _ with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ UK Remote | 💰£29,450 - £37,250 + | ✨ Start Dates: Tuesday 26th May & Monday 22nd June. (Please note: We are currently prioritising placements for our May intake; June start dates will be confirmed once the initial cohort is finalised) Please reference any literature that you may refer to, as applications that are highly plagiarised and not your own work. e.g. ChatGPT, will be declined. We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo._ ⭐Our Financial Crime Customer Operations Team: The Shield of Monzo Our Financial Crime Customer Operations team is the frontline defence in protecting Monzo and our customers from the complex threats of economic crime, including sophisticated fraud schemes and global money laundering networks. We are not just a compliance function; we are a critical operational hub focused on safeguarding financial integrity. At Monzo, our operational teams are structured into specialised 'Pillars', each focusing on a specific business area, set of risks, and unique typologies. This allows us to build deep, world-class subject matter expertise where it matters most. The FinCrime Business Banking Pillar In the FinCrime Business Banking Pillar, you will be integral to protecting the entire lifecycle of our business customers from high-growth startups to established SMEs. Our mission within this pillar is to ensure Monzo's business ecosystem remains transparent and trusted. This involves: • Conducting rigorous checks during onboarding and throughout the customer relationship., • Unravelling suspicious activity across a spectrum of financial crime typologies., • Reporting, exiting accounts, and implementing controls when significant risk is identified. The Role: FinCrime Business Banking Senior Investigator As a FinCrime Business Banking Senior Investigator, you will play a pivotal role within our financial crime operations. Your main focus will be completing some of our higher risk, high complexity financial crime tasks on our business accounts, while supporting our Team Managers and coaching our Investigators to achieve our quality and productivity goals. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will directly contribute to Monzo's safety and reputation, and the broader fight against illicit finance. 🔑You’ll play a key role by... • Taking ownership of the most complex FinCrime Business Banking tasks, including Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) for high-risk businesses, Complex Customer Reviews (e.g, in sensitive areas like Sexual Services flags), and multi-jurisdictional money muling investigations., • Writing, reviewing, and submitting high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the National Crime Agency (NCA), ensuring they meet the highest legal and evidential standards., • Maintaining a regular schedule on core investigative tasks to sustain your competency levels, directly support the domain’s Service Level Agreements, and remain connected to frontline challenges., • Actively coaching Investigators on complex financial crime typologies, best practice, and performance improvement, to support in driving a culture of excellence., • Working closely with our Operations Analysts, to share emerging trends and ensure that operational guidance is continuously updated and effectively embedded across the domain. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… • You can demonstrate an ability to give clear, constructive, and kind feedback that motivates colleagues and enhances performance., • You thrive in a fast-paced environment and can adapt positively and quickly to change be it new guidance, evolving processes, or shifting priorities., • You maintain flexibility in the tasks you are scheduled for and can adapt seamlessly when business needs require changes at short notice., • You are driven by a desire to have a tangible impact on the detection and prevention of financial crime, protecting Monzo and its customers. 🎯 At the interview, we will be looking for you to demonstrate Essential Expertise • Significant and specific experience in conducting end-to-end due diligence (KYB) and investigations on businesses (SMEs, Corporates, etc.) in a regulated financial crime setting., • Proven ability to conduct in-depth, high-quality open-source research and analysis to corroborate customer profiles and transactional activity., • Strong foundational and applied Financial Crime knowledge, specifically deep exposure to Know Your Business (KYB) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) principles., • A strong understanding of current UK and international financial crime trends and typologies, with particular expertise in those impacting business accounts (e.g. trade-based money laundering, complex shell structures, illicit use of payment services)., • A comprehensive understanding of the UK Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) regime, including consent requirements and the legislative framework (POCA). ✚ It will be useful, but not essential if... • You have direct experience of completing Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and/or Complex Customer Reviews, and/or have experience writing and reviewing/approving SARs., • You have formal or informal experience of coaching, mentoring, or training peers or more junior members of the team., • You can demonstrate a track record of identifying areas for control/process improvement and successfully working with, or escalating to, relevant stakeholders to implement change., • You hold or are working towards an appropriate qualification relevant to Financial Crime (e.g. ACAMS, ICA Diploma). Shifts - You'll work 37.5 hours per week. This means you'll work Monday to Friday, from 9AM to 5:30PM. You'll also work one full weekend (Saturday and Sunday), once every 4 weeks with 2 set days in lieu when working the weekend. Closing date: Applications are reviewed daily. We will keep this ad live until all vacancies are filled, so we recommend applying as soon as possible Monzo's Culture & Benefits Monzo is a bank built on transparency, fairness, and inclusion. We are building a bank for everyone and are looking for people who can bring diverse perspectives and experiences. 🙌What’s in it for you 💰£29,450- £37,250 ➕ share options. 🎂We guarantee to approve time off on your birthday if it falls on a day you’re scheduled to work and it’s outside of your training period. 📍This role is remote based in the UK 📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more!_. 🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps • Application questions - Please take the time to answer these, we read them all, • Recruiter call - 30 minute video call, • Hiring Manager interview (values and technical questions) - 60 minute video call #LI-REMOTE #LI-NG Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our , 2024 and 2024 _ We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

The Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) is an independent organisation dedicated to exposing human rights violations and threats to democracy. We achieve this through open source research, digital investigations, capacity-building with local partners, and collaboration with media to amplify our impact. CIR was born out of a determination to expose those spreading harm – online and offline – around the world, particularly in areas of violent conflict, such as Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar. Our projects are at the forefront of efforts to investigate and document human rights abuses, war crimes, harms targeting women and minorities, and influence operations. We work closely with multilateral and national justice accountability bodies. Contract Type: Contractor Contract length: 4-5 months Hours needed Full hours or part-time. Location: Remote. Languages: You must be able to speak and write English and have working proficiency in both Pashto and Urdu languages. Closing date: Tuesday 19th May 2026 at 23:55pm. About the project The OSINT Investigator utilises their open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigation skills to conduct research and analysis of open-source information in support of CIR’s Terrorism research project objectives. As an OSINT Investigator, you will use your expertise to acquire and analyse information from open sources, extracting the key pieces of information to write high-quality narrative reports and project products that are comprehensive, verified, accurate, and placed correctly within the context of Pakistani affairs. • You will work with and support the Investigations Lead and Senior Project Manager, ensuring that your analysis is focused effectively to meet project tasking and product priorities., • You will also provide assistance to the team to understand the cultural, political, and social dynamics of Pakistan., • Provide subject-matter expertise on Violent Extremist Organisation (VEO) ecosystems in Pakistan, guiding analytical direction and helping translate complex open-source intelligence (OSINT) and social media intelligence (SOCMINT) findings into clear, decision-relevant insights for stakeholders and donors., • Employ OSINT and SOCMINT tools, techniques and methodologies to conduct analysis of trends, and issues related to Violent Extremist Organisation (VEO) activity in Pakistan., • Conduct research and analysis as directed in support of project reporting objectives., • Mentor and support analysts by offering guidance on methodologies, reporting standards, and best practices in monitoring and propaganda analysis., • Track and analyse propaganda, messaging trends, and narrative shifts from VEOs in Pakistan, including across public platforms (TikTok, Facebook) and niche or encrypted platforms (Telegram, Rocket.Chat, Element), including semi-closed communities where accessible., • Conduct propaganda analysis (themes, narratives, key influencers, and dissemination networks) and track changes over time., • Identify emerging platforms, communication trends, and shifts in VEO platform usage to maintain collection relevance., • Assist with the development, writing, and review of analytical outputs, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and timely delivery across products, while identifying new lines of inquiry and investigation., • Assist with translation of collected content (required languages: Pashto and Urdu; Dari would be beneficial)., • Proven ability to analyse Violent Extremist Organisation activity, including propaganda, narratives, and platform usage trends within the regional context in Pakistan., • Experience using open-source and social media intelligence tools and techniques to collect, analyse, and interpret complex data into actionable insights., • Ability to identify trends, assess messaging shifts, and produce high-quality, accurate, and timely analytical outputs that inform decision-making. To apply, please submit your CV and complete the application form questions. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview, which can be conducted remotely unless specified otherwise. CIR encourages applicants from under-represented communities. CIR is an equal opportunities employer. If you require adjustments or additional support to complete this process, please let us know in your application.