Senior Compliance Manager & Money Laundering Risk Officer (MLRO)

Methodfi; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in London is seeking a Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) to own their financial crime strategy and compliance framework. The ideal candidate has extensive AML experience and regulatory knowledge within financial services. This hands-on role involves designing compliance frameworks and collaborating across departments to enhance risk controls. The position offers a hybrid work structure and excellent benefits including a £1,000 L&D allowance and private health insurance.

Benefits

Hybrid work structure

£1,000 annual L&D allowance

25 days holiday + public holidays

Summer Hours in August

Work from anywhere for up to 45 days a year

Employee Options pool

Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Significant experience in AML, financial crime, and regulatory compliance within regulated financial services.
• Deep knowledge of UK AML regulations, sanctions, and fraud risk.
• Strong analytical skills with transaction data.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial crime strategy and oversee compliance framework.
• Design and enhance AML, sanctions, fraud, and ABC frameworks.
• Partner with teams to embed risk-based controls into systems.

Skills

Experience in AML

Financial crime and regulatory compliance

Analytical skills

Exceptional communication

Education

Experience as an MLRO or equivalent

Job description

Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)

Senior Compliance Manager & Money Laundering Risk Officer

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

The Role

As Runa’s MLRO (Senior Compliance Manager & Money Laundering Risk Officer), you will own our financial crime strategy and oversee the broader compliance framework that underpins our global payout infrastructure. You’ll act as the key regulatory senior manager responsible for money laundering risk oversight, reporting, and governance, operating as the central point of accountability for the FCA and our banking partners.

This is both a strategic and hands‑on role. You’ll design and enhance AML, sanctions, fraud, ABC and financial crime frameworks, partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Data, Treasury and Operations, and ensure that robust, risk‑based controls are seamlessly embedded across Runa’s transaction‑heavy environment.

You’ll thrive in ambiguity, enjoy solving complex regulatory and operational challenges, and bring a pragmatic, commercially minded approach to compliance that scales with the pace of innovation.

What Excites You

• Acting as Runa’s registered MLRO, owning all financial crime and AML responsibilities.
• Designing and continuously enhancing AML, sanctions, fraud, ABC and broader compliance frameworks that support scalable, global growth.
• Partnering with Product, Engineering and Data to embed automated, risk‑based controls into onboarding, payout flows and transaction monitoring systems.
• Using data to identify emerging risks, trends and control gaps, and driving end‑to‑end remediation.
• Leading investigations, high‑risk escalations and SAR decisioning with clarity and sound judgement.
• Serving as the main point of contact for regulators, auditors and banking partners.
• Coaching Runa teams on compliance topics and strengthening our culture of risk awareness and operational excellence.
• Building a Compliance function that scales with new products, markets and regulatory obligations.

What Excites Us

• Significant experience in AML, financial crime and regulatory compliance within regulated financial services, payments or fintech.
• Experience as an MLRO, Deputy MLRO or equivalent senior financial crime leader, or readiness to step into FCA‑regulated responsibility.
• Deep knowledge of UK AML regulations, sanctions, fraud risk and payment/e‑money regulatory requirements.
• Experience working with high‑velocity, transaction‑heavy products such as payouts, acquiring, prepaid, gaming/gambling or digital wallets.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with transaction data, monitoring rules and financial crime metrics.
• A pragmatic, solutions‑oriented approach, balancing regulatory expectations with operational feasibility.
• Exceptional communication skills and confidence engaging with regulators, auditors and senior stakeholders.
• The ability to manage complexity, prioritise effectively and operate independently in a fast‑moving environment.

What’s in it for you

🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)

📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year

🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays

🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well‑deserved, Reset Day

☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year

🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa

🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa

👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay

💷 We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

The Interview Process

☎️ Talent Screen - Talent Partner

☎️ Hiring Manager Interview

💻 Task/Scenario Interview – Cross‑functional Panel

🫱🏼🫲🏾 Cross‑functional Interview – Cross‑functional Panel

🌟 Values Interview – Leadership Team

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.