Who we are:

True Layer is Europe’s fastest-growing Pay by Bank network. We power smarter, safer and faster payments by combining real-time bank payments with financial and identity data. E-commerce, i Gaming and Financial Services businesses use our products to onboard new users, accept money and make payouts in seconds, and at scale. Live across 22 countries and with 1 new user joining True Layer’s Pay by Bank network every 3 seconds, we’re in a very exciting growth stage. This is why we’re expanding the team across our offices in London, Milan, and Dublin.

Listed in Sifted as one of the 100 fastest growing start-ups in UK & Ireland, and CNBC’s World Top Fintech Companies, we’re trusted by industry leaders like Ryan Air and Just Eat Takeaway for continued innovation within our payment products. To date, we’ve raised over $300 million from world-renowned investors including Stripe, Tiger Global, Northzone, and Tencent. But this is just the beginning.

We’re looking for people who are excited about joining the Pay by Bank revolution and helping us change the way the world pays. Could this be you?

Description

True Layer Underwriting Team is an integral part of our Commercial function, focusing on enabling seamless client experiences during the onboarding journey. This team specialises in Due Diligence/KYC onboarding reviews and AML investigations, contributing to a smooth and compliant onboarding process for our clients. This is a meaningful opportunity for a Due Diligence/KYC Specialist to join True Layer in enhancing the financial crime element of the client onboarding process.

As a KYC/AML Analyst, you will maintain our first line of defence against money laundering and financial terrorism while supporting the rapid growth of our business. Your work will protect True Layer from financial crime exposure, ensuring that we enter and maintain business relationships that align with our compliance obligations and ethical standards.

Sitting within a client-facing team under the Commercial function, this role provides valuable insight into our customer base and the products available to them. We are looking for a Due Diligence/KYC subject matter expert who is well-versed in financial crime, with a clear focus on KYC and due diligence processes.

What we expect from you as a KYC/AML Analyst:

• Conduct KYB and KYC checks on prospective customers.
• Complete Due Diligence on high-risk and complex customer use cases at onboarding to assess and manage the financial crime risks of new business relationships.
• Identify and communicate financial crime risks for prospective customers, ensuring that the customer risk profile falls within True Layer’s risk appetite.
• Perform Customer Screening, including PEP, Sanction and adverse media checks.
• Perform on-going monitoring on customers and associated individuals - working PEP and sanctions alerts and ensuring rationale and outcomes are recorded.
• Conduct periodic reviews and event triggered reviews where required.
• Complete peer reviews on onboarding and ongoing DD review cases.
• Conduct agent onboarding and monitoring of agents on an ongoing basis.
• Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for financial crime issues.
• Contribute to the ongoing improvement of systems and processes.
• Be comfortable working to/ setting KPIs and support in the accurate collation of MI for Senior Management Team/ external reporting.

Requirements About you

• Experience conducting due diligence (DD) reviews on corporate customers including conducting KYC checks, customer screening (PEP and sanctions checks) and assessing financial crime risks.
• Experience dealing with complex business models and a range of different business customer types.
• Good working knowledge of Financial Crime risks, AML controls and KYC/CDD best practices.
• Ability to act as an SME for 1LOD DD, supporting other business areas with financial crime matters.
• Comfortable working with other functions and questioning or escalating, where appropriate.
• Attention to detail, with an interest in learning and engaging with others.
• Experience in optimising due diligence processes and procedures.

We would be particularly interested if you have:

• Having experience onboarding e Commerce merchants is valued, as well as with i Gaming/gambling or cryptocurrency businesses.
• Experience in Finance, a Financial Technology company or a technology company;
• Experience in a progressive and innovative technology startup.
• Experience in working with various KYC and authentication software providers.

Don’t meet all the requirements?

Multiple studies have shown that women and people of underrepresented groups are sometimes less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At Truelayer, we are committed to building a diverse workforce, so if you are excited about this role and have the essential skills, but not the entire checklist - we’d still love to hear from you!

Benefits What you can expect from us:

• Flexible hours and hybrid working. Split your time 50/50 between working from home and our welcoming offices in Dublin 🇮🇪 spending 2-3 days per week in the office.
• Need to collect the kids from childcare? Love a workout in the gym first thing? No worries, we trust you to do your best work within our hybrid framework 🧘
• Prorated - 24 days holiday as standard ✈️ with flexible bank holidays, so you can take those days whenever you like 🌍
• Prorated - 12 fully-paid wellbeing days a year and your birthday off (on top of the holiday allowance) 🕊️
• Life Cover as part of our benefits package, offering financial protection and peace of mind for you and your loved ones 🛟
• Prorated
• Generous parental leave, above and beyond statutory requirements 👪
• Competitive pension contribution at 4% & 4% 🧓
• Private health insurance from the day you start 🧑⚕️
• Membership of mental wellbeing platform Spill and premium Calm subscription
• Prorated
• A €1000 budget to spend on learning & development each year 📚
• Free lunch from Just Eat 🥙 up to 3 days a week when you are in the office

At True Layer, we don’t just do inclusion and diversity. We embrace people that have different opinions, perspectives and personalities. Because we believe that by seeing the world from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all the people who live in it. We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups (e.g. people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from all socio-economic backgrounds). If you’d like to discuss alternative working patterns, please let us know.

We will always aim to make appropriate adjustments to ensure we are fully inclusive to people with different needs during our interview process. So if you need us to make any adjustments to suit your individual needs please let us know - we’ll be happy to support you.