Financial Crime Strategy Lead
Morse is a global financial platform for people who live, work, or earn across borders, providing accounts, payments, transfers, crypto deposits, spending, savings, and investing through one app.
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About Morse
Morse, formerly Sling Money, provides cross-border financial services across 150+ countries. Users can receive payments through local account details, hold and convert currencies, deposit supported crypto and stablecoins, send money internationally, spend with a Visa card, and invest in US stocks and ETFs. Morse is a product of Avian Labs.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the financial crime roadmap and set detection and prevention strategies for fraud, money laundering, and sanctions risk. You will manage rulesets and controls with data, define detection-system requirements, lead investigations, design countermeasures, partner across functions, and measure and report programme performance.
Requirements
- Strong data and analytics background
- Ability to use SQL or similar tools
- Experience analyzing data and identifying patterns
- Strong knowledge of financial crime and fraud typologies
- Experience managing fraud or financial crime rulesets
- Experience building or shaping financial crime and fraud capabilities
- Experience with financial crime product development or detection tooling
- Strategic thinking and project ownership
- Ability to prioritize and drive delivery across teams
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
- Familiarity with US EU or UK regulatory environments
- Familiarity with transaction monitoring and financial crime tools such as Sardine Orca or Chainalysis preferred
- Experience in LATAM payments or global and emerging markets preferred
- Understanding of AML and sanctions obligations preferred
Responsibilities
- Own the financial crime roadmap
- Set strategies for detecting and preventing fraud money laundering and sanctions risk
- Manage financial crime rulesets and controls
- Measure detection rates false positives and precision
- Define requirements for fraud and AML detection systems
- Work with engineering to build detection tooling
- Lead investigations into suspected fraud and financial crime
- Identify typologies and quantify exposure
- Design rules models and workflows to counter threats
- Partner with product engineering data operations and compliance
- Define financial crime programme metrics
- Build risk and performance reporting
