Fraud and Financial Crime Investigator
Solaris is a leading European fintech that proudly supports over 2.5 million customers and processes €13bn in annual transactions. We welcome the best talent to join our ambitious and committed team.
Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform empowering the future of financial services. As a tech company, we enable businesses to easily provide trusted and innovative financial experiences to their customers. Through smart APIs, our partners can embed financial services quickly and compliantly into their own product offerings.
We love what we do and we love our team. We are 750 people from over 60 nationalities - a unique blend of techies, fintech enthusiasts, bankers and entrepreneurs from various industries. Our routines are built around genuinely valuing and exchanging different perspectives as well as actively sharing knowledge as we drive our business as a team. We believe and invest in personal growth.
Job Overview:
As a Fraud & Financial Crime (F&FC) Investigator you will be part of a team that is the first line of defence in identifying issues that expose Solaris and our partners to Financial Crime across the range of services that we provide.
The primary purpose of this role is to review, escalate and complete transaction monitoring cases, and perform Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Fraud prevention, Anti-Money laundering (AML) regulations, risk management, CDD/EDD, and a keen eye for identifying suspicious activities.
This role will be based on shift work, with several shifts a week overnight.
We have talented teams across all our functions, and we are always interested in talking to more talented people who want to be a part of this journey.
Your Role:
- Analyse transaction alerts generated by our transaction monitoring system and escalate cases for further investigation as necessary.
• Ensure timely review and resolution of transaction alerts in compliance with regulatory deadlines.
• Conduct CDD and EDD reviews on new and existing customers to assess their risk profile.
• Ensure all required customer information and documentation are collected, verified, and maintained in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Perform periodic reviews of high-risk customers and update their risk profiles as necessary.
• Identify and investigate complex and high-risk customer relationships and transactions.
• Responding to requests for information (RFI) received from global Law Enforcement agencies or banking partners
• Challenge existing processes to establish new ways of working and system enhancements
• Promoting a culture of compliance throughout the organisation
• Other duties as assigned
We'd Love to See:
- 3 to 5 years experience working in the field
• Detailed understanding of fraud and wider financial crime typologies in the banking/payments space, including money laundering and terrorist financing
• Understanding of financial crime legislation and regulatory requirements in the UK, Lithuania and other key jurisdictions is desired but not required.
• Experienced in using transaction monitoring systems such as ARIC, Falcon, SIRA
• Experience in performing customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence reviews
• Knowledge of SAR processes and experienced in escalating suspicious activity in a financial services environment - Working knowledge of industry prevention/mitigation tools such
- An awareness of the authorised push payment scam and fraud transfer recalls
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of emerging payment methods and the risks associated with different payment types
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with minimal supervision, prioritising own workload to stay within agreed timescales and SLA
• Self-motivated with an eye for detail
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Comfortable using a variety of business tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Team oriented with a collaborative approach
Why Work at Solaris?
- We seek out and hire only exceptional talent, and therefore recognise that each individual brings value and contribution which has made us who we are today.
- We have a tech stack to be proud of and a working environment framed by our values and behaviours.
- We are passionate people who share a common vision, can think big, and thrive on delivering results.
- We value diversity of thought and expect that you bring all of you to work; your passion, creativity and ideas on how we can be the best in the space that we operate in.
- In return we will help you to be the very best that you can, we will support with development, give you opportunities to get involved in key projects and offer exposure to challenges that you may not get in a larger organisation.
Benefits:
- Lucrative Leave Policy
- Yearly Performance Bonus
- EAP
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Annual Growth & Development allowance
- Time off to volunteer
- Personal Accident Policy
- Group Mediclaim
- Group Term Insurance
While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.
Solaris is an equal opportunity employer, embraces diversity and builds an inclusive environment for its employees and customers. We consider all applicants for employment regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
To all recruitment agencies: Solaris does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Solaris employees or any other venture in our ecosystem. Solaris is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
- Department
- Fraud & Financial Crime
- Locations
- Ahmedabad
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Ahmedabad
About Solaris
Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform empowering the future of financial services. We enable businesses to easily provide trusted and innovative financial experiences to their customers. Using Solaris’ smart APIs, our partners can embed financial services quickly and compliantly into their own product offerings, so they can focus on creating products their customers love.
At Solaris we share a common purpose – to collaborate to make Solaris, and its products, the best it can be so that together, with our partners we can redefine the financial services industry.
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Fraud and Financial Crime Investigator
Solaris is a leading European fintech that proudly supports over 2.5 million customers and processes €13bn in annual transactions. We welcome the best talent to join our ambitious and committed team.
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