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Monzo

Team Manager, Financial Crime, EU (Fluent Spanish and English)

Management
100% Remote
Full-time
£40,750 - £50,875
Mid-level
UK
Posted on March 7, 2026

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Lead a team in financial crime prevention within the EU Financial Crime Customer Operations team. • Protect Monzo EU and customers from financial crime like fraud and money laundering. • Manage a team of around 12 Financial Crime Investigators focused on screening, transaction monitoring, account closures, and escalations.

📋 Job Requirements

• Be fluent in English with written and verbal communication skills. • Be fluent in Spanish with written and verbal communication skills. • Have strong experience of team leadership across Financial Crime within the financial services sector. • Have proven ability to drive excellent performance through others. • Have strong knowledge and experience in the financial sector with previous experience in carrying out financial crime investigations across either Anti Money Laundering, Screening, or Financial Crime Business Banking. • Have strong knowledge of the current financial crime landscape in the UK and the EU and associated financial crime risks. • Be flexible to meet customer demand including infrequent weekend working. • Be able to commit to the first 8 weeks from the start date with no holidays or time off.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Have experience with screening, transaction monitoring, and account closures. • Have experience in hiring processes and interviewing candidates.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Conduct quality checks on senior financial crime investigators to drive performance and identify coaching opportunities. • Handle complex case escalations from senior financial crime investigators. • Manage personal and professional development of a team of senior investigators. • Foster a positive, supportive, and high-performance culture in the team with high levels of engagement. • Chair employee relations cases and make decisions consistent with Monzo's values. • Hold weekly meetings with team members individually and together to ensure everyone is informed, engaged, and performing. • Aggregate feedback from team meetings and feed it into operational leadership to improve processes and tooling. • Act as an interviewer in hiring processes to help shape the team as it grows.

About Monzo

📊 Monzo at a glance

🚀 Why Join - Our Take

We have been Monzo customers for years and have always loved their beautiful, simple app UI. We believe their product has a positive impact on millions of customers, motivating them to be more conservative with their spending and helping them save money. Monzo, as a company, has consistently grown over the past 10 years and is known for its strong company culture, generous benefits, and leadership that strives to be truly transparent and cares about its colleagues. It is a company that helps you advance your career and grow as a professional, working with great teams. If you like to join a thriving, upcoming bank and help millions of customers lead a financially sound life, Monzo gives you the opportunity to push ahead.

😃 What Monzo offers

• Receive £38,250 to £48,375 plus £2,500 Multilingual Premium and stock options. • Get guaranteed time off approved on your birthday if it falls on a scheduled work day outside of training. • Work remotely from anywhere in the UK. • Access a £1,000 learning budget each year for books, training courses, and conferences. • Receive a Macbook and extra support for work-from-home setup.

💖 What makes Monzo unique

Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. Starting as a prepaid card, Monzo has grown to offer personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, free kids accounts, and credit cards in the UK. With over 11 million UK customers, Monzo has built a product that people love, with more than 80% of growth coming from word of mouth and referrals.

💬 What employees say

"It does truly feel like we are trying to solve pertinent problems in people’s lives, their ability to achieve more and be better with their money. I feel very priviledged to be a part the mission here at Monzo."

Heldiney Pereira
Product Designer