Financial Crime Specialist

About Us

Condukt is the next-generation compliance platform for financial services, offering an agentic solution powered by real-time data for business identity.

Always-on and policy-aware, Condukt enables financial institutions and fintechs to gain actionable insights into business verification - unlocking growth, increasing efficiency, and strengthening compliance.

We were founded by former operators and builders with deep experience in banking, payments, and lending. Today, our team spans across London and Porto, bringing together engineers, product owners, and operators from companies like Revolut, Meta, Block (Square), SumUp, American Express, Yandex, and OakNorth.

Trusted by leading regulated entities, including Wise, Tide, Mollie, Shift4, Flatpay, and myPOS, Condukt is backed by top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and MMC Ventures.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a Financial Crime Specialist to help run operations on behalf of leading financial institutions and fintechs, from business onboarding and KYB/KYC reviews to enhanced due diligence, ongoing monitoring and investigations.

You’ll combine deep domain expertise with Condukt’s real-time data and agentic platform to resolve complex cases, from multi-layered ownership structures to entities spanning multiple jurisdictions and company registers, using AI to move faster and your own judgement to get it right.

This isn’t a case-processing role. The patterns you spot and the edge cases you resolve will directly shape our product and how our agents work. You’ll be the bridge between real compliance operations and the platform we build.

As an early-stage, fast-growing company, we value people who roll up their sleeves and take ownership. You’ll be hands-on with cases from day one, while building the team, processes and quality standards that will let us scale Managed Services across Condukt’s client base.

If you’re detail-driven, love untangling complex corporate structures and financial crime puzzles, and want to build a function from the ground up, this role is for you.

What you’ll do:

• Run KYB, KYC and screening reviews alongside Condukt’s AI agents, which pull registry data, map ownership and draft findings, while you bring the judgement and make the call

• Review and challenge what the agents surface, especially on complex, multi-layered and cross-border ownership structures, and step in where the data runs out

• Conduct enhanced due diligence, ongoing monitoring reviews and investigations, separating real risk from noise and escalating the cases that warrant it

• Document decisions to a high, audit-ready standard and give customers clear, actionable outcomes

• Spot the patterns, edge cases and failure modes in agent output, and feed them back to Product and Engineering to make our agents better

• Help define how humans and agents work together: what gets automated, what needs review, and where expert judgement adds the most value

• Partner directly with our customers’ operations and compliance teams, becoming their go-to expert

• Build relationships with company registers and government agencies to resolve hard cases and improve data access

• Develop the playbooks, quality frameworks and QA processes that let Managed Services scale across Condukt’s client base

• Help build and lead the Managed Services team as it grows: hiring, setting goals, tracking metrics and coaching through regular 1:1s

What you bring:

• 3+ years’ experience in financial crime compliance, ideally in KYB/KYC, onboarding or EDD at a bank, fintech or consultancy

• Hands-on experience unravelling complex ownership structures and identifying UBOs across multiple jurisdictions

• A strong working knowledge of AML/CFT regulation and risk-based approaches in the UK and EU

• Sharp attention to detail and the judgement to know when a case needs escalating

• Hands-on experience using LLMs in your daily work, and the confidence to question what AI tools produce

• Clear, structured writing that stands up to audit and regulatory scrutiny

• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work directly with customers’ compliance teams

• A drive to improve processes, not just follow them, and an interest in shaping product

• Fluent English, and the right to work in Portugal

Bonus:

• CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) certification

• Hands-on AML investigation experience

• Professional fluency in multiple European languages

• Experience designing training and onboarding programmes for compliance analysts

• Experience across both in-house compliance teams and outsourced or advisory environments

• Early-stage startup experience, or a strong appetite for building in fast-moving environments

Our offer:

• Tackle meaningful problems with real-world impact

• Competitive salary and equity package

• Flat hierarchy with direct access to the founders

• Hybrid (4 days a week in our Porto office)

• Top-of-the-line equipment

• Private health insurance, plus sick and compassionate leave as needed

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].