Revolut, a global fintech serving over 75 million customers and certified as a Great Place to Work™, is hiring a Financial Crime Risk Manager in the UAE to collaborate with Group Compliance and Product teams, helping drive the design and implementation of AI-driven compliance solutions.
About the Company — Revolut’s Global Scale
Founded: 2015, on a mission to give people more visibility, control, and freedom over their money
Customer Base: 75+ million customers using Revolut’s spending, saving, investing, and exchange products
Team Scale: 13,000+ people working globally, from offices and remotely
Culture Recognition: Certified as a Great Place to Workâ„¢
Team Focus: The Financial Crime team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking
Career Impact & FinCrime Leadership Opportunity
Strategic Location: UAE — a growing hub for global fintech and regulatory innovation
Technical Ownership: Help drive design and implementation of AI-driven compliance solutions
Cross-Functional Reach: Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, Product, and Audit teams
Career Growth: Shape financial crime risk practices at one of the world’s leading fintech companies
Position Overview
The Financial Crime team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. Revolut is looking for a Financial Crime Risk Manager to collaborate with Group Compliance and Product teams to help drive the design and implementation of AI-driven compliance solutions in a fast-moving, digital environment.
Why This Role Matters:Â As Financial Crime Risk Manager at Revolut, you work with Data Science and Engineering teams to review and shape AI in compliance, support the design of innovative yet practical compliance solutions, translating regulatory requirements into actionable measures, perform regulatory gap analysis and compliance assessment reviews across departmental processes, ensure clarity and transparency in discussions with regulators, law enforcement, and financial partners, collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, Audit, and local legal entities, and shape financial crime risk practices at a global fintech super app serving 75+ million customers.
Key Responsibilities
AI-Driven Compliance & Solution Design
- Work with Data Science and Engineering teams to review AI in compliance
- Support the design and development of innovative yet practical compliance solutions, translating regulatory requirements into actionable measures
Regulatory Gap Analysis & Process Improvement
- Perform regulatory gap analysis and compliance assessment reviews
- Identify potential gaps in existing departmental processes, systems, and controls while driving improvements
Industry Monitoring & Stakeholder Engagement
- Keep up to date with relevant regulations, industry guidance, and financial services innovations from a financial crime risk perspective
- Ensure clarity, transparency, and insight in discussions with regulators, law enforcement, and financial partners
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate, coordinate, and partner with Product, Compliance, and Audit teams, as well as local legal entities
🎓 Qualifications & Requirements
Experience Requirements
- 7+ years of financial crime experience, ideally in a consultancy or more than one financial institution within an AML/CTF role
- Good understanding of traditional and innovative financial services products (crypto, buy-now-pay-later, etc.) and associated financial crime risks
- Experience in regulatory mapping, gap analysis, and compliance assessments within FinCrime domains
Essential Skills
- Proficiency in performing detailed and efficient research of regulatory requirements and industry guidance
- Understanding of industry-wide financial crime practices and trends
- Solid analytical, critical thinking, and decision-making skills
- Highly organised and structured working style
- Excellent report writing, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Fluency in English
Nice to Have
- Experience working with RegTech services
- Data analytics and/or AI exposure or training
- Global FinCrime expertise
About Revolut
People deserve more from their money — more visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Its powerhouse of products, including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travelling, help 75+ million customers get more from their money every day. With 13,000+ people working around the world and certification as a Great Place to Work™, Revolut continues its lightning-fast growth while prioritizing diversity and inclusion through its D&I Framework, encouraging applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Career Excellence: Shape AI-driven financial crime compliance at one of the world’s leading fintech super apps, serving 75+ million customers globally.
Who Should Apply?
- Financial Crime & AML/CTF Professionals:Â With 7+ years across consultancy or financial institutions
- Regulatory Gap Analysis Specialists:Â Experienced in compliance assessments within FinCrime domains
- Crypto & Fintech Risk Experts:Â Familiar with innovative financial products and associated risks
- RegTech & AI Compliance Professionals:Â Interested in shaping AI-driven compliance solutions
- Regulator-Facing Communicators:Â Skilled in stakeholder management with regulators and law enforcement
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